Cursor hidden when aubx returns with error

[SimJoSt]

Environment:

• macOS
• iTerm2
• aube 2.2.17 (via aubx)

Command:

aubx @slkiser/opencode-quota show

When dependency resolution exits with ERR_AUBE_TRUST_DOWNGRADE, the shell prompt returns but the terminal cursor remains hidden.

Running printf '\e[?25h' immediately restores it.

Expected:
aube restores cursor visibility on every exit/error path after enabling interactive TTY progress rendering.

[jdx]

Reproduced, thanks for the precise report — and it isn't specific to ERR_AUBE_TRUST_DOWNGRADE. Any install that fails after the progress bar starts painting (unresolvable dependency, network error, trust-policy rejection) exited with the cursor still hidden; only the success path put it back.

The animated bar hides the cursor on every frame, and the teardown that was supposed to run when the install bails out was gated on a reference count that can never reach its trigger value — clx keeps a strong reference to the progress job in a process-global registry for the life of the process, so the guard was dead code and no error path ever retired the renderer.

Fix is up in #1559: the install progress handle now tracks display ownership explicitly and tears the bar down before the diagnostic is rendered, and the CLI's top-level error path retires any other live progress job on the way out. A PTY-driven regression test asserts the last cursor escape on a failing install is a restore.

Until it lands, your printf '\e[?25h' is the right workaround.

One gap that fix does not close: Ctrl-C during an install still leaves the cursor hidden, since nothing restores the terminal from a signal handler. Tracking that separately.

AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: 2.1.270.

[SimJoSt]

You are welcome. I am glad I can give back a little.
Cleaning up my multi-machine setup, including servers, I am wading further and further into the jdx ecosystem with mise and aube.
Just love the approach and functionality, so thank you for working on it.

PS: I found your tools some time ago, listened to some podcast, and waited for the moment to have more time to use them. Omarchy was not the trigger ;)