[robobun]

Problem

• A bun test callback that throws synchronously leaves its nextTick callbacks and promise jobs queued. They run inside the next callback (since 1.2.23, Synchronous concurrent test fix #22928).
• A sync { retry: 5 } test that waits for a promise fails 6 times. A job's error fails the next test. afterEach reads that callback's AsyncLocalStorage.enterWith() store.
• Cause: EventLoop::run_callback_with_result_and_forcefully_drain_microtasks (src/jsc/event_loop.rs:1444) returns on result?, before its drain.

Fix

• On a throw, the helper takes the exception, runs its drain and rethrows. A test that called skip() no longer hides its jobs' errors.
• The callback ends like one written async: 528 of 528 probed files exit alike (main: 360).
• Verified: test/js/bun/test/vitest-flavor.test.ts (11 new tests fail on main), 117 runner test files.
• Self-reviewed: 17 concerns raised, 16 addressed. Not done: a tracking issue.

Background

• The drain is a microtask checkpoint: nextTick callbacks, then promise jobs. When no script runs, it drops an enterWith() store (AsyncLocalStorage: drop enterWith() frames at the event-loop boundary, stop allocating per await/then #41190).
• No checkpoint runs with an exception pending, so the helper takes it (One termination signal, one fold: Err(Thrown) always means an exception is pending, and each event-loop dispatcher takes it in one place #37275).
• skip() (vitest context, unreleased) ends its test by throwing.
• Considered a second drain in BunTest::run_test_callback's error arm: the helper keeps its gap.

Downsides

• Exit codes change in 140 of 528 files: 108 to 0, 32 to 1 (Notes). With retry, a failed check of a job no longer fails the run, as for async.
• A microtask-only loop that a later hook stops hangs, as after a return. A job's process.exit(0) ends the run before the error prints.
• Release: 460 instructions per returning callback (main 461), 344 more per throwing one. .text +768 bytes.

Notes

Report. There is no issue. The enterWith() case was found by a read of the code during other work on the runner. A thrower below is a callback that throws synchronously. Its twin is the same callback written async.

Repro (bun test, 1.4.2 and main at 2596ac5, release builds. The first one also on 1.3.13):

import { test, expect } from "bun:test";
let attempts = 0;
let settled = false;
test("retried", { retry: 5 }, () => {
  if (++attempts === 1) Promise.resolve().then(() => { settled = true; });
  expect(settled).toBe(true);
});

Main prints (fail) retried (attempt 6), exit code 1. No promise job runs between the attempts. This PR and the twin on main print (pass) retried (attempt 2), exit code 0.

import { test, afterEach } from "bun:test";
import { AsyncLocalStorage } from "node:async_hooks";
const als = new AsyncLocalStorage();
afterEach(() => console.log("afterEach sees:", als.getStore()));
test("enterWith() then a synchronous throw", () => {
  als.enterWith("leaked");
  throw new Error("x");
});
test("enterWith() then a return", () => void als.enterWith("not leaked"));

Main prints afterEach sees: leaked, then afterEach sees: undefined. This PR prints undefined twice. If each later test also fails an expect(), every one of them reads leaked on main.

History. The runner of 1.2.22 drained after every callback. #22928 put the call of the callback and its try ahead of the drain. Checked on the 1.2.22 binary:

• A regression of 1.2.23: the order for a test, beforeEach, afterEach and afterAll that throws, the report of a rejection that a job handles, and the test that a job's error fails. 1.2.22 also ran the jobs before it printed the error of the thrower.
• Never correct in a release: the retry case (1.2.22 has no retry option), the enterWith() store, and the order after a describe() or beforeAll that throws.

The other effects of the missing drain on main. Each one is a row of the new tests.

• test("a", () => { queueMicrotask(() => { throw new Error("job") }); expect(1).toBe(2) }) followed by an empty test prints (fail) for both. A rejection that an async function leaves behind does the same. After a describe() callback that throws, the tests of the next describe() do not run.
• With an afterEach hook, the errors of the jobs are printed as # Unhandled error between tests.
• After a test.failing that queues an expect() and throws, expect.hasAssertions() in the next test passes.
• const p = Promise.reject(e); queueMicrotask(() => p.catch(() => {})); throw x reports e as a second error.
• Bun.file(path).writer().write(text) before the throw is not flushed when afterEach reads the file. The deferred flush is part of the same drain.

Other runners (Node 26.3.0, one file each). Jest 30.5.2 and Vitest 5.1.0 run the promise jobs of a test that throws before afterEach, and do not report a rejection that such a job handles. They run process.nextTick callbacks after the whole file. Bun runs them first in every drain, also after a return. Jest shows no store to afterEach after a throw or a return. Vitest shows the store after both.

What changes for a thrower. The drain runs while the thrower is still the current test. So its jobs count for it, as they do for its twin.

• Its nextTick callbacks and promise jobs run before afterEach and before the next test.
• What a job throws fails the thrower and prints before the error of the thrower. A rejection that a job leaves prints after it. The JUnit <failure> of the thrower is the first of these errors.
• expect() calls and the time of the jobs count for the thrower. A thrower whose jobs run past its timeout is reported as timed out, like its twin. A test.failing of that kind goes from (pass) to (fail). bun test: keep the result of a callback that throws after its timeout #47867 is about that verdict.
• A hook that would have cancelled queued work (an unmount in afterEach) now runs after that work.
• The second error: line for a handled rejection is gone.
• A toMatchSnapshot() call of a job is stored under the name of the thrower (thr 1), not of the next test (next 2). A snapshot file that main wrote for such a test fails once under CI=1 (Snapshot creation is disabled in CI environments), until it is updated. The same holds in the other direction.
• afterEach and error getters read no store that it entered with enterWith().
• A callback that is registered inside a store (als.run(), --isolate) still runs in that store.

Exit codes. 528 files: 8 kinds of thrower (plain, test.failing, test.todo under --todo, retry, done, and skip(), test.fails and retry of the vitest flavor), 6 kinds of job, 11 kinds of next callback. Release builds of main and of c9597ef, the first commit of this PR. The later commits change a result only when the error of skip() reaches the runner unhandled.

Thrower	1 to 0	0 to 1	On main
retry, both flavors	72	0	The job of the failed attempt fails the next attempt or the next test.
test.todo body, --todo	33	5	The error of a job fails the next test. Now it is printed with the todo test, which expects to fail.
test.failing, test.fails, skip()	3	27	The next test hides the error of a job (a todo test, a retried test), or passes expect.hasAssertions() on an expect() of a job. Now the error is reported between tests.
plain, done	0	0	The thrower fails on both builds.

• On this PR every file has the exit code of its twin (528 of 528). On main 168 differ.
• One more change from 0 to 1 is outside that set. A test that asserts on what a promise job sets, while beforeEach resets it, passes on main under --retry=2 only because the job of the failed attempt ran after beforeEach.
• The retry row has real faults in it. Example: a library calls a callback once, and that callback fails an expect() in a job of the attempt that threw. With an afterEach hook, main reports it as # Unhandled error between tests and exits 1. This PR prints it with the failed attempt and exits 0 when the next attempt passes. The same test written async exits 0 on main too.

skip(). skip() of a test context (vitest flavor, in no release) ends its test with a throw. A test that called it hides every error that its callbacks throw (Execution::handle_uncaught_exception). On main that includes the errors of jobs of an async test. With the drain it would also include the jobs of a sync test. A run that was red on main (the next test failed) would then be green with nothing printed. Two rules in jest::on_unhandled_rejection prevent that.

• An unhandled error of a test that called skip() is reported as # Unhandled error between tests, as for test.failing. Vitest 5.1.0 reports it as an unhandled error and exits 1. This changes 36 twins of the set above from exit code 0 to 1.
• The error that skip() throws is not reported. Each call throws a new error, as on main. The file keeps a weak handle to each one (Execution::skip_errors), so the runner knows such an error whenever it arrives and roots none. If the current test called skip(), the error ends that test, as on main. If not, the runner drops it. Vitest 5.1.0 drops it too: its catchError returns on code === "VITEST_PENDING".

On main that error fails another test, or is reported between tests, when a job or a late call throws it. Exit codes of one file each, on release builds of main and of this PR and on Vitest 5.1.0:

The error of skip() is thrown by	main	PR	Vitest
a job of a sync test that throws (also with test.fails, also in a concurrent group)	1	0	0
a job, after the test caught it and called skip() again	1	0	0
a job of beforeEach	1	0	0
a call that the test does not await, after a wait	1	0	0
a promise that an async test rejects with it after a wait	1	0	0
a job of a test that returned	0	0	0
a timer, while the async test waits	0	0	0

One difference from Vitest stays. When a timer throws that error, Bun ends the test at once (main too) and Vitest lets the body go on.

Questions for a maintainer.

1. The order. The jobs run before the runner reports the error of the thrower. That is the order of the promise path and of 1.2.22, and the reason for the fix in the helper. report_error_or_terminate (src/jsc/Task.rs), the fold of the event loop, reports first and drains after.
2. The vitest flavor. Three results of a sync thrower equal Vitest 5.1.0 on main and not with this PR: afterEach reads the store of the thrower, a retry run with a job that throws exits 1 (Vitest passes the test and counts an unhandled error), and task.result.errors has only the error of the thrower. Bun's twin already differs from Vitest in all three.

Measurements. Release builds (ThinLTO) of main 2596ac5 and of this PR at 743080b from one build directory, linux-x64, JIT off. Instruction counts are gdb single-steps over one call of the named function, with the JS call excluded. Calls 2 to 4 give the same numbers unless a range is given.

• A callback that returns, own frame of BunTest::run_test_callback: 195 instructions, 25 conditional branches, 6 calls (main: 196, 25, 6). With callees: 460 (main: 461).
• A callback that throws, with nothing queued: drain_microtasks_and_rethrow runs 344 instructions with its callees, 197 of them the checkpoint. No allocator call, no syscall. It is entered for 100 of 100 throwing callbacks and 0 of 100 returning callbacks. Own frame of run_test_callback: 190 instructions (main: 187).
• Size: .text 108,257,833 to 108,258,601 bytes (+768). run_test_callback 2,426 to 2,452 bytes. drain_microtasks_and_rethrow 101 bytes. on_unhandled_rejection 309 to 513 bytes. The host function of skip() 628 to 924 bytes. The stripped binary keeps its size. Execution gains one Vec per file (24 bytes). ExecutionSequence keeps its size, so a test costs no memory.
• EventLoop::drain_microtasks_with_global, EventLoop::exit, EventLoop::run_pending_test_steps, JSValue::call and GlobalObject::drainMicrotasks: 0 instructions differ. Bun__JSValue__call: one relocated address. BunTest::on_uncaught_exception and Execution::advance_sequence keep their size and their instruction count. Only field offsets change in them.
• One skip() call: 7,779 and 8,122 instructions in two calls (main: 7,177 and 7,091). The difference is the weak handle.
• One unhandled error, without its report: 561 instructions (main: 479), plus 29 for each error of skip() that the file has thrown and the GC has not collected. The report of that error runs 418,504 instructions. The list drops collected errors when it grows.
• 51 probe files (a thrower and its twin, both flavors), at c9597ef: 25 change against main, all of them throwers. 22 of 24 throwers print the same lines as their twin (main: 0 of 24). The other two also leave an unhandled rejection: the sync path prints its own error first, the promise path the rejection. The debug build prints the same as the release build in all 51.

Two spellings that cost the return path. Both were measured the same way.

• A match on the result in place of map_err(..)?: rustc then writes the result of the call into the return slot. The inline cost of JSValue::call goes over the threshold (230 against 225), and a callback that returns runs 505 instructions.
• #[cold] on the new function: the release link inlines nothing at a cold call site (-inline-cold-callsite-threshold=0). The drop of the context guard after the call then stays out of line, and each callback copies the guard: 467 instructions.

Why the helper throws the exception again. The helper keeps its other Err exits (a callback that was never called, a stop during the drain), and promise_of_thenable adds one. The caller takes the pending exception for all of them in one place. A returned value would add a second error channel to run_test_callback, next to #47760 and #47867.

Termination. Err(Terminated) leaves the helper as before, with no drain. If the drain stops the VM, the exception of the callback is still thrown again, so the runner prints it. No test reaches these two arms.

Not covered.

• An immediate that calls enterWith() and throws shows its store to the next immediate of the same batch. Node prints undefined. Node restores the frame there and runs no checkpoint, so this drain is not the fix for that path or for node:test.
• A timer or immediate that a test leaves behind still runs inside a later test. bun test: attribute late expect() calls of an abandoned test to that test instead of the next one #38880 is about late expect() calls.
• A rejection that an async test leaves after a wait is reported after the next callback, so the next test fails. Main does the same. This PR changes that only for the error of skip().
• User code that the error print of the runner calls (a message getter) can queue jobs. They run after the next callback, on the sync and on the promise path.
• The then getter of a returned thenable runs after the drain, after a return and after a throw.
• A microtask loop that never ends hangs the run after a return and after a rejection on main, and now also after a throw. The test timeout cannot fire inside the drain. Infinite loop int test causes hang #21277 and bun test: interrupt synchronous infinite loops on --timeout #30598 are about such hangs.

Other open pull requests in this function. This PR first is the simple order.

• bun:test: call then() of a returned thenable before the microtask drain, and once for a fixture #47760 (after_call maps the result, on top of bun:test: do not call then() on what a callback with a done parameter returns #47730) conflicts in one statement. Its side alone would bring the early return back. The merge is let result = after_call(result).map_err(|err| self.drain_microtasks_and_rethrow(global_object, err))?;.
• bun test: hold the event loop across a test callback's drain and inside fake timer controls #47726 (the runner holds the event loop across the drain) merges with no conflict. The new call is then inside its hold. It moves the drain of the return path to the laundered this pointer, and the throw arm must follow.
• bun test: stay on a test while a rejected promise waits for its report #47731 had a drain in the error arm of run_test_callback and rules for skip() in an earlier commit, and took both out as separate decisions. Two rows of the new tests come from its tests.

Self-review. Done as asked: the skip() rule and its rows, a row for test.fails, a test of where the errors of jobs are reported, a test of the deferred flush, the retry test without a job that throws (so it holds for both flavors), the dead termination check and ensure_still_alive() removed. Not done, with the reason:

• A tracking issue. This PR holds the fixtures and the questions.
• A test that pins the process.exit(0) case and one that pins the test.todo row. Each would certify a result that a maintainer may not want.
• A row with a hook that cancels queued work. The order test already shows that the jobs run before afterEach.
• A debug_assert! that no script is on the stack, on the throw path only. The drain of the return path has the same precondition and no assert.

Review threads. The skip() rule changed shape after them. At first each sequence kept the error of its own skip() call. These findings followed:

• The rule for test.fails ran before that check.
• A second skip() call replaced the error.
• The handle stayed rooted after its test.
• A call that was not awaited failed the next test.
• A concurrent group reported the error between tests.
• With one shared error per file, a catch read the stack of the first call.

Weak handles to the errors of the file cover all six. Declined, with the reason in the thread:

• A deadline for the drain. The return path has the same drain (Infinite loop int test causes hang #21277, bun test: interrupt synchronous infinite loops on --timeout #30598).
• An error for a hook that throws after skip(). Main hides it, and so does Vitest 5.1.0.
• An index for the list of weak handles. The scan costs 29 instructions for each live error of skip(), and only when an error arrives unhandled.

Suites. The 11 new tests: 0 of 11 on a release build of main, 11 of 11 on a release and a debug build of this PR. vitest-flavor.test.ts as a whole: 202 pass on both builds of this PR. Debug ASAN build, test/js/bun/test/, test/cli/test/ and test/js/node/test_runner/ (117 files): 110 pass in one run. 4 more pass alone with a longer timeout. 3 fail for reasons outside this diff: snapshot.test.ts (error snapshots, color codes), isolation.test.ts (an inner 5 s timeout while every builtin module loads) and test-aot.test.ts (the --aot run of the debug build prints one stack frame less in one test, which passes on release builds of main and of this PR). Also test/js/node/async_hooks/AsyncLocalStorage.test.ts and the jsresult-swallow source lint. With BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1, 15 files that call skip(), 100 callbacks that throw and 100 that return run clean. Two more files ran on the debug ASAN build: a full GC between a late skip() and the report of its rejection, and 61 skip() calls with a GC after each test.

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no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/test/vitest-flavor.test.ts

[robobun]

^{Updated 8:06 PM PT - Nov 8th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 96daf83 has 1 failures in Build #138999 (All Failures):

• test/aot/parallel/modules/a-data-file-required-before-the-loader-comes-to-its-import/main.mjs - compare: it does not exit and print as plain Bun does on 🐧 13 x64-asan

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🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 48230

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-48230 executable, so you can run:

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Status

Reproduced on 1.3.13, 1.4.2 and main (2596ac5), release builds:

// bun test ./a.test.js
import { test, expect } from "bun:test";
let attempts = 0;
let settled = false;
test("retried", { retry: 5 }, () => {
  if (++attempts === 1) Promise.resolve().then(() => { settled = true; });
  expect(settled).toBe(true);
});

• main: (fail) retried (attempt 6), exit code 1. No promise job runs between the attempts.
• This PR: (pass) retried (attempt 2), exit code 0.

The AsyncLocalStorage.enterWith() repro is in the description: main prints afterEach sees: leaked, this PR prints afterEach sees: undefined.

CI. The diff is green. The last two builds ran the same code (743080b). Each has one red test, and this diff does not touch either of them:

• Build 138906: test/aot/heap-limit.test.ts on alpine 3.23 x64. It passed in build 138999.
• Build 138999: test/aot/parallel/modules/a-data-file-required-before-the-loader-comes-to-its-import/main.mjs on debian 13 x64-asan. It passed in build 138906.

Both tests run a program that is compiled ahead of time, outside the test runner. test/js/bun/test/vitest-flavor.test.ts holds the 11 new tests and passed on every lane that ran. Every other failure passed on a retry. Four darwin x64 jobs waited for an agent in both builds.

Pull request: #48230

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Walkthrough

Callback errors now trigger a microtask drain before the original exception is rethrown. The test runner records errors created by skip() and uses them when handling unhandled rejections. New tests cover callback ordering, error attribution, retries, state isolation, queued skips, and FileSink visibility.

Changes

Microtask draining and test error attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Drain microtasks after callback errors src/jsc/event_loop.rs, test/js/bun/test/vitest-flavor.test.ts	The callback error path drains microtasks before rethrowing the saved exception. Tests check queued work, callback state, error attribution, retries, and FileSink visibility.
Track skip errors during rejection attribution src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/test_context.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs, test/js/bun/test/vitest-flavor.test.ts	The execution records errors created by skip(). Rejection handling distinguishes those errors and checks whether the sequence called skip(). Tests cover queued skip calls and related rejection handling.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#41008: Changes the same event-loop helper and callback error path.
• oven-sh/bun#47726: Changes the same helper’s microtask drain sequence and callback ordering.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii, dylan-conway

Merge Risk: Low · up to 96daf

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 96daf

The change is mergeable with bounded performance follow-up: files retaining many skip errors can incur additional rejection-handling work. No additional functional blocker was established.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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The title "bun test: drain microtasks after a callback that throws synchronously" names the main change. The diff makes run_callback_with_result_and_forcefully_drain_microtasks drain microtasks before rethrowing a synchronous callback throw, and the title states that behavior with the affected component. It is short, specific, and free of noise.

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The description follows the repository template. It has both required sections: "What does this PR do?" and "How did you verify your code works?". The Problem, Fix, and Background parts state the cause, the change, and the reason for the change. The Fix section gives the verification: 11 new tests in vitest-flavor.test.ts that fail on main, 117 runner test files, and an exit-code comparison across 528 probed files. The Downsides section lists behavior changes, including exit-code changes in 140 of 528 files, a possible hang with a non-terminating microtask loop, and process.exit(0) ending a run before an error prints. The Notes block adds repro scripts, measurements, and open questions. The evidence block flags that the vitest-flavor.test.ts evidence is deferred to CI. The description is detailed and mostly complete. The main gap is the test evidence for the platform-specific file, which the author has not run on this machine. The author also states that the 3 failing test files and the AsyncLocalStorage and lint failures are outside the diff, but that claim is not confirmed here.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/jsc/event_loop.rs:
- Line 1465: Make the microtask checkpoint in the surrounding event-loop flow
deadline-aware so a self-replenishing process.nextTick loop cannot keep
drain_microtasks_with_global running past the test deadline. Reuse the runner’s
existing deadline and interruption mechanism, and ensure interruption returns
control to the runner so timeout handling and afterEach teardown can proceed.

Review comments at @src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs:
- Around line 703-706: Update the rejection classification around
ExecResult.Skip and sequence.is_skip_error so the skip sentinel is recognized
before routing expected-failure and hook errors as between-test failures.
Preserve reporting for unrelated rejections, including stray rejections after a
skip.

Review comments at @src/runtime/test_runner/test_context.rs:
- Around line 463-464: Update the skip-error tracking around
`sequence.skip_error` so repeated `skip()` calls retain every skip error for the
current attempt instead of replacing earlier ones. When classifying unhandled
errors, suppress only errors matching a retained skip error and continue
reporting unrelated errors.

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• src/jsc/event_loop.rs
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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that run_callback_with_result_and_forcefully_drain_microtasks has a single caller (src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs:1384), so no sibling call site misses the new error-path drain, and that the new skip() gate in on_unhandled_rejection only applies when the sequence result is already Skip, so it cannot hide errors of non-skipped tests. Nothing was executed in this review: the USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 failure check and the new vitest-flavor tests were read, not run.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the test runner's callback-drain path in src/jsc/event_loop.rs (drain microtasks before rethrowing a synchronous throw), adds a skip_error Strong on ExecutionSequence with a comparison used in jest.rs's unhandled-rejection routing, and adds ~350 lines of subprocess tests; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Three inline findings were posted (a potential hang on a self-rescheduling microtask loop, a dropped thrower error when the drain terminates the VM, and the unreleased skip_error Strong), so approval is not appropriate and a human should weigh the behavioral tradeoffs the PR itself lists (exit-code changes across many files).

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs — nit: the new skip_error Strong is not released when a sequence completes, so each skipped test keeps its skip Error alive until the file's BunTest is dropped. Execution.rs:724 clears sequence.context on completion but leaves skip_error set; after that point is_skip_error is unreachable (gated on context.is_some()), so the handle is dead weight. Fix: release skip_error on every lifecycle exit that releases context (set sequence.skip_error = None beside Execution.rs:724), keeping the value only while the sequence is still the current one. [also at: src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs:173 - nit: Each test that called skip() keeps its "test is skipped; abort execution" Error object rooted until the whole file finishes, where the base held nothing.]

  Why this was flagged

  A vitest-flavor test calls ctx.skip(); test_context.rs:464 stores Strong::create(error, global) in sequence.skip_error. When the sequence completes, Execution.rs:724 sets sequence.context = None but never touches skip_error, and reset_sequence (Execution.rs:920) only runs on retry/repeat, which a Skip result never takes. The Strong therefore survives until ExecutionSequence itself drops with the file's BunTest. On the base branch skip() threw via global.throw(format_args!) and kept nothing. Consequence is a small GC-rooted Error per skipped test for the rest of the file; the stale value is never read because jest.rs:705 requires sequence.context.is_some(). Not run; established by reading the three sites.

  Verification: nit. Trigger: any test whose context skip() is called. /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/test_runner/test_context.rs:462-465 stores sequence.skip_error = Some(Strong::create(error, global)). /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs:723-724 runs sequence.context = None; and never touches skip_error. On the base, skip() threw with no root, so this retention is new.

[robobun]

The review summary has one finding outside the diff: the skip_error handle stayed rooted after its test ended. b318bcc releases it when the sequence completes, beside sequence.context = None (src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs:725). A retry or a repeat already starts with an empty slot, because reset_sequence builds the sequence again.

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Review comments at @src/runtime/test_runner/Execution.rs:
- Line 725: Update the skipped-test completion flow around `sequence.skip_error
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[claude]

I reviewed the follow-up commit (b318bcc) and found no new bugs; since the PR changes when the runner drains microtasks for every throwing callback and how a skip() test classifies its jobs' errors (with the exit-code shifts the description itself counts), a maintainer's look at the chosen semantics is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• skip_error lifecycle: reset_sequence rebuilds the sequence through ExecutionSequence::init, so the Strong drops per attempt before a retry/repeat, and advance_sequence clears it alongside context on completion; get_or_insert_with makes a second skip() in one attempt throw the same instance.
• is_skip_error reaches both error paths: under bun test, VirtualMachine::uncaught_exception routes sync job throws and rejections through on_unhandled_rejection, and the to_error() fallback covers the raw value passed on the non-Bun__handleUncaughtException branch.
• run_callback_with_result_and_forcefully_drain_microtasks has a single caller (run_test_callback), so no sibling drain path was missed; the EnterJs guard and after_call ordering around the error-path drain match the success path.
• Not run: the new tests against main / USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1, and BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 over the new helper.

Extended reasoning...

The PR touches the event loop's forced-drain helper (src/jsc/event_loop.rs), the test runner's ExecutionSequence state and its unhandled-rejection classification (src/runtime/test_runner/{Execution,jest,test_context}.rs), and adds ~360 lines of subprocess tests in test/js/bun/test/vitest-flavor.test.ts. It touches no security-sensitive surface (no auth, parsing of untrusted input, or data exposure). The second commit changed only the skip-error handling; the event_loop.rs change I commented on in the prior run is unchanged and those inline threads remain open. Deferring rather than approving because the change alters observable runner semantics (ordering, exit codes, timeout attribution) that the author explicitly lists as questions for a maintainer, and because no tests or exception-check validation were run in this review.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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- Around line 440-447: Update skip error tracking around Execution::skip_error
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[claude]

Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.