ai-clis feature: codeRabbit and qmd fail to install on arm64 (Ubuntu Noble)

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Summary

Two tools in the ai-clis feature fail to install when building a devcontainer on arm64 (Apple Silicon / OrbStack) with Ubuntu Noble as the base image. The feature uses set -e, so either failure aborts the entire feature install.

Failures

1. codeRabbit — installer exits non-zero on arm64

The CodeRabbit installer (curl -fsSL https://cli.coderabbit.ai/install.sh | ... sh) prints [SUCCESS] Installation complete but returns a non-zero exit code on arm64. With set -e, this immediately kills the feature script.

Log excerpt:

[INFO] Platform: linux-arm64
[INFO] Downloading CodeRabbit CLI...
[INFO] Installing to /usr/local/bin/coderabbit
[SUCCESS] Installation verified
[SUCCESS] Installation complete
ERROR: Feature "AI CLI Tools" failed to install!  ← exit code: 2

2. qmd — node-gyp native build fails (Python shlex missing)

npm install -g @tobilu/qmd requires building native modules (tree-sitter-javascript) via node-gyp. The build fails because Python cannot import shlex, which is a standard library module — suggesting the Python runtime in the container is broken or sandboxed in a way that breaks gyp.

Log excerpt:

npm error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'shlex'
npm error gyp ERR! configure error
npm error gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
npm error gyp ERR! cwd .../node_modules/@tobilu/qmd/node_modules/tree-sitter-javascript

Environment

• Host: macOS (Apple Silicon, arm64)
• Container runtime: OrbStack
• Base image: mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:ubuntu (Ubuntu 24.04 Noble)
• Node version: 22.22.3 (via devcontainers/features/node:1)
• ai-clis feature version: 2.0.6

Workaround

Adding "omit": "codeRabbit,qmd" to the feature options in devcontainer.json allows the build to succeed.

Suggested Fixes

• codeRabbit: Investigate whether the CodeRabbit installer's arm64 path has an issue, or wrap the install in || true to make it non-fatal.
• qmd: Either skip native-module packages that require gyp, or ensure python3 is properly available (with standard library intact) before the npm install. Alternatively consider wrapping with || echo "Warning: qmd installation failed" similar to how Claude Code is handled.