tessl install tessl/npm-external-editor@3.1.0Edit 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%
{
"context": "Evaluates how well the solution uses external-editor's backward-compatible snake_case accessors to launch an edit session and surface metadata. Checks that editing leverages the library rather than manual file handling and that legacy fields drive the returned values.",
"type": "weighted_checklist",
"checklist": [
{
"name": "Legacy aliases",
"description": "Populates outputs specifically from the deprecated snake_case properties `temp_file` and `last_exit_status` instead of the camelCase fields.",
"max_score": 40
},
{
"name": "Editor launch",
"description": "Invokes the external-editor workflow (e.g., `edit`/`editAsync` or `ExternalEditor.run/runAsync`) rather than manually writing temp files to gather edited content.",
"max_score": 20
},
{
"name": "Non-zero status",
"description": "Uses the `last_exit_status` alias to capture and return non-zero exit codes from the editor session.",
"max_score": 15
},
{
"name": "Temp path alias",
"description": "Reads the temp file location from the `temp_file` alias after the edit run and surfaces it in the result.",
"max_score": 15
},
{
"name": "Command override",
"description": "Supports overriding the editor command using external-editor facilities (e.g., setting `editor.bin`/`editor.args` or honoring EDITOR/VISUAL) to enable scripted edits in tests.",
"max_score": 10
}
]
}