7b6aa728ae improvement(resolver): use context variables for block outputs in function block code (#4223)
* v0.6.29: login improvements, posthog telemetry (#4026)

* feat(posthog): Add tracking on mothership abort (#4023)

Co-authored-by: Theodore Li <theo@sim.ai>

* fix(login): fix captcha headers for manual login  (#4025)

* fix(signup): fix turnstile key loading

* fix(login): fix captcha header passing

* Catch user already exists, remove login form captcha

* fix: use context variables for block outputs in function block code

When a function block references another block's output via <BlockA.result>,
the executor previously embedded the full value as a JavaScript literal
directly in the code string. For large outputs (>50 KB), this caused the code
string to exceed the terminal console display limit, making inputs appear
truncated or replaced with { __simTruncated: true } in the UI.

Instead, block output references in function block code are now stored as
named global variables (__blockRef_N) in the isolated VM context. The code
string only contains the compact variable name, keeping it small regardless
of the referenced value size.

Loop/parallel/env/workflow references are still inlined as literals since
the API route has no way to resolve them independently.

The _runtimeContextVars key is filtered from sanitizeInputsForLog so it
does not appear in execution logs or SSE events.

Pre-resolved context variables are merged with any variables produced by
the API route resolveCodeVariables, with executor values taking precedence.

Fixes #4195

* fix: address Cursor and Greptile bot review comments

- Pass preResolvedContextVariables through to shellEnvs for Shell language
  (Cursor: shell loses pre-resolved block refs, executes against undefined vars)
- Remove duplicate CodeExecutionOutput interface declaration
  (Cursor + Greptile: dead duplicate declaration in tools/function/types.ts)
- Deduplicate identical block references in resolveCodeWithContextVars so the
  same <BlockA.result> reused multiple times shares one __blockRef_N slot
  (Greptile P2: avoid duplicating large payloads across the wire)

* fix: shell block references and complex env value serialization

Two follow-ups to the function-block context-variable refactor:

- resolveCodeWithContextVars now emits `$__blockRef_N` for shell
  function blocks so the script dereferences the env var injected
  by the executor. Other languages still receive the bare identifier.
- The function-execute route now JSON-stringifies non-primitive
  values when building shell env vars, replacing the previous
  `String(v)` call that produced `[object Object]` for objects/arrays.

Co-Authored-By: Octopus <liyuan851277048@icloud.com>

* fix lint

* review pass

* ignore shell comments

* update contract

* fix tests

---------

Co-authored-by: Waleed <walif6@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Theodore Li <theodoreqili@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Siddharth Ganesan <33737564+Sg312@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Vikhyath Mondreti <vikhyathvikku@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: octo-patch <octo-patch@github.com>
Co-authored-by: Vikhyath Mondreti <vikhyath@simstudio.ai>
2026-05-06 00:25:41 -07:00

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