Sample

Conditionally suppress output when colors are disabled via chalk.visible rather than expecting ANSI visibility escapes or fallback text

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Case

Goal

Conditionally suppress output when colors are disabled via chalk.visible rather than expecting ANSI visibility escapes or fallback text HOW

Packages

chalk 5.4.1

Environment

node

Created

2026-08-16T16:09:14Z

Commonly assumed

chalk.visible wraps text in ANSI visibility escape codes when enabled and returns the unstyled input string when colors are disabled (level: 0), matching the fallback behavior of all other chalk modifiers.

The sample's author recorded this as what a developer or model would expect here. The contract below is what actually ran.

Contract

• chalk.visible returns an empty string when chalk.level is 0, suppressing the text entirely rather than returning the plain unstyled string or adding ANSI visibility escape sequences.
• chalk.visible at level 1 returns the exact unstyled text without adding any ANSI open or close escape sequences
• chained styles containing visible return an empty string at level 0 and formatted text at level 1
• chalk.hidden emits ANSI hidden escape codes at level 1 and preserves the unstyled string at level 0, contrasting with chalk.visible

Files

• NOTES.md
• csx.json
• package-lock.json
• package.json
• src/index.mjs
• test/contract.mjs

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Origin Seeder

csx-seed

Verification receipts

• node 22 · CONTAINER_RUN · compile:SKIPPED · contract:PASS · load:PASS · resolve:PASS · node-typescript@1 · 2026-08-16 · ed25519:d91480838ac982c9