The Claude Code adapter previously passed --json-schema alone. On Claude
CLI 2.1.160 that combination still emits the model's conversational
preamble on stdout while the schema-enforced structured payload ships on
a sidecar channel the adapter cannot read. Result: callers requesting
structured output got prose that fails JSON parsing downstream — exactly
the failure mode the activity-core CUST-WP-0045 daily triage canary hit
on 2026-06-01 ("Triage report generated and returned via structured
output. Key signals:..." → json.loads error at column 1).
Fix: when --json-schema is set, also pass --output-format json. The CLI
then writes a JSON envelope on stdout. The adapter unwraps it by
probing a small allowlist of known text-bearing fields (result,
result_text, content, text, output). Unknown envelope shapes fall
through to raw stdout so the operator can introspect the structure and
extend the allowlist.
The unwrap path is only triggered when --json-schema was set, so non-
schema callers keep the existing raw-stdout behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
