Add unfencing operation for markdown text elements in safe outputs

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Agents occasionally wrap entire markdown responses in code fences (\``markdown\n...\n````), causing the fence delimiters to appear in collected safe outputs. This adds detection and removal of outer fences when the entire text element is wrapped.

Implementation

Go (pkg/workflow/markdown_unfencing.go)

• UnfenceMarkdown() detects and strips outer fences starting with markdown/md language tags
• Supports both backtick and tilde fences of any length (3+)
• Validates fence length matching: closing fence must have at least as many characters as opening fence
• Case-insensitive language tag matching

JavaScript (actions/setup/js/markdown_unfencing.cjs)

• Runtime equivalent for log parsing
• Integrated into log_parser_shared.cjs at all text content extraction points
• Integrated into safe_output_type_validator.cjs for all sanitized markdown fields
• Applied during safe output collection from agent responses

Behavior

// Before: Agent output wrapped in fence
const text = "```markdown\n# Actual Content\n```";

// After: Unwrapped automatically
unfenceMarkdown(text); // Returns: "# Actual Content"

// Non-wrapped content passes through unchanged
unfenceMarkdown("# Content"); // Returns: "# Content"

Detection criteria:

• First line must be \``(markdown|md)or~~~(markdown|md)` (case-insensitive)
• Last line must be matching fence type (\``or~~~`) with length >= opening fence length
• Only removes outermost fence; nested code blocks preserved

Testing

• 89 comprehensive tests (45 Go + 44 JavaScript)
• Fence length matching tests (3, 4, 5, 10+ character fences)
• Real-world agent response scenarios
• Edge cases: empty content, whitespace, nested blocks, mismatched fence types and lengths

Original prompt

Add a unfencing operation to top level mardown text elements when the agent accidentally wrapped the entire markdown body in a code fence.

See #12235

• separate helper file
• extensive testing
• must starting with markdown/md fence
• must finish with fence

Applied to any markdown body when ,
Collecting safe outputs.

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[pelikhan]

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• support more than 3 backticks (start end must match)
• apply to all safe output markdown strings in collector
• add more tests

[Copilot]

@copilot

• support more than 3 backticks (start end must match)...

Done in commit 4df0437:

✅ More than 3 backticks support - Already implemented and now extensively tested. The implementation dynamically counts fence characters and validates that the closing fence has at least as many characters as the opening (e.g., 4 backticks must close with 4+, but 4 backticks won't match 3 backtick closing).

✅ Applied to all safe output markdown strings - Added unfenceMarkdown to safe_output_type_validator.cjs at line 347-348, which processes all sanitized string fields in safe outputs before sanitization. This complements the existing integration in log_parser_shared.cjs.

✅ Added more tests - Added 26 new test cases:

• 13 new Go tests (fence length matching + real-world examples)
• 13 new JavaScript tests (fence length matching + real-world examples)
• Total: 89 tests (45 Go + 44 JS) covering fence lengths from 3 to 10+ characters

All tests passing ✓

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This pull request adds automatic detection and removal of outer markdown code fences from agent responses to address cases where agents accidentally wrap entire markdown content in code fence delimiters (```markdown\n...\n```).

Changes:

• Implements UnfenceMarkdown() function in both Go and JavaScript with identical behavior
• Integrates unfencing into safe output validation before sanitization
• Integrates unfencing into log parsing at all text content extraction points

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 6 out of 6 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
pkg/workflow/markdown_unfencing.go	Go implementation with fence detection, validation, and removal logic
pkg/workflow/markdown_unfencing_test.go	Comprehensive Go test suite with 45 test cases covering edge cases and real-world scenarios
actions/setup/js/markdown_unfencing.cjs	JavaScript implementation equivalent to Go version
actions/setup/js/markdown_unfencing.test.cjs	JavaScript test suite with 44 test cases mirroring Go tests
actions/setup/js/safe_output_type_validator.cjs	Integrates unfencing before sanitization for markdown fields
actions/setup/js/log_parser_shared.cjs	Integrates unfencing at three text extraction points in log parsing

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[Copilot]

The beforeEach function is used but not imported from 'vitest'. This will cause a runtime error when the tests are executed. The import statement on line 1 should include beforeEach in the destructured imports.

Suggested change

	import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
	import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach } from "vitest";

[Copilot]

While the unfenceMarkdown function itself has comprehensive test coverage, there are no integration tests verifying that it's correctly applied before sanitization in the safe output validation flow. Consider adding a test case that validates an item with a markdown field wrapped in fences to ensure the integration works as expected.