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tessl/npm-external-editor

tessl install tessl/npm-external-editor@3.1.0

Edit a string with the users preferred text editor using $VISUAL or $ENVIRONMENT

Agent Success

Agent success rate when using this tile

79%

Improvement

Agent success rate improvement when using this tile compared to baseline

1.05x

Baseline

Agent success rate without this tile

75%

rubric.jsonevals/scenario-1/

{
  "context": "Evaluates whether the solution uses external-editor to launch the user's editor and rely on its charset auto-detection (chardet plus iconv-lite fallback to UTF-8) to return correctly decoded note text.",
  "type": "weighted_checklist",
  "checklist": [
    {
      "name": "Editor invocation",
      "description": "Uses external-editor's synchronous entry point (such as edit or an ExternalEditor instance with run) to open the configured editor instead of hand-rolling temp file workflows.",
      "max_score": 20
    },
    {
      "name": "Encoding detection",
      "description": "Lets external-editor read the saved file so its chardet-based charset detection is applied rather than assuming UTF-8 or reimplementing decoding logic.",
      "max_score": 25
    },
    {
      "name": "UTF-16 decode",
      "description": "Confirms the returned text stays accurate when the editor saves UTF-16LE content by relying on the package's iconv-lite decoding instead of manual byte parsing.",
      "max_score": 20
    },
    {
      "name": "Windows-1252 decode",
      "description": "Ensures Windows-1252 saves round-trip through external-editor without mojibake by using its built-in decoding rather than treating bytes as UTF-8.",
      "max_score": 20
    },
    {
      "name": "UTF-8 fallback",
      "description": "Handles unknown or undetected charsets by accepting the package's default UTF-8 decode instead of throwing or guessing another encoding.",
      "max_score": 10
    },
    {
      "name": "Empty save",
      "description": "Returns an empty string without error when the editor writes no content, matching external-editor behavior for empty files.",
      "max_score": 5
    }
  ]
}

Version

Workspace
tessl
Visibility
Public
Created
Last updated
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npmpkg:npm/external-editor@3.1.x
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