`Failed to parse the text response` with github workflow

[alexaka1]

Maybe I have skill issues, but opencode is not working with its GitHub integration. I have set it up but it's not able to summarize PRs.

Eg. see this run: https://github.com/alexaka1/distroless-dotnet-healthchecks/actions/runs/17205772206/job/48805971861

alexaka1/distroless-dotnet-healthchecks#672 (comment)

https://github.com/alexaka1/distroless-dotnet-healthchecks/blob/fddeddd27a44965b3ee634b2928ac0e1bd1f80af/.github/workflows/opencode.yml

[github-actions]

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• JSON parsing failed: Text #2188: Similar JSON parsing failure with "JSON parsing failed: Text" error
• Session becomes unusable after UnknownError: Failed to parse #2135: Similar parsing error with "UnknownError: Failed to parse" that makes sessions unusable
• opencode with Github action: Failed to fetch version information #1818: GitHub action failures related to version fetching and setup issues
• GitHub Integration is not pushing changes in PRs #1417: GitHub Integration issues where the workflow runs but doesn't work as expected

The core issue appears to be related to text/JSON parsing failures in the GitHub workflow context. Issues #2188 and #2135 specifically deal with similar parsing errors that could be related to your "Failed to parse the text response" error.

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.

[danielbollomsend]

Just adding that I'm seeing the same thing - can't share the run as it's on a private repo, but exactly the same error message at the same point in the process. Config is the same as above, except we are using google/gemini-2.5-flash as a model.

I do seem to be able to run "summarise this pr" style tasks fine, but if I ask opencode to actually work on an issue it fails with the "Failed to parse the text response" error every time.

Could definitely be a setup issue, but there isn't much context in the logs so I'm not really sure

[mateus-ito]

Same thing happening here. Just configured the repo with opencode github install, exactly as the documentation says.

I also can’t share because the repo is private, but we're using github-copilot/claude-3.7-sonnet-thought, and anything works, from issues to PRs.

[bobysf12]

Yup same issue here.

[Antonet99]

Same issue here. Did you find a solution?

[fwang]

looking into this

anyone has share turned on? can you send me a share link to the failed run?

[alexaka1]

Eg.

alexaka1/distroless-dotnet-healthchecks#672 (comment)

alexaka1/distroless-dotnet-healthchecks#695 (comment)

[fwang]

@alexaka1 oh nice.. if u can keep them around.. i'll dig into it later today

[alexaka1]

I don't know if or when they expire. I followed the default as closely as possible, and I don't intend to delete them. So hopefully they'll be there.

[alexaka1]

I was scraping github (by hand) for other repos that use this action, and I managed to find one that ran into the same issue. I will look for more

deadronos/SpaceAutoBattler#57 (comment)

[alexaka1]

Without changing anything meaningful, it randomly worked for an issue comment. alexaka1/distroless-dotnet-healthchecks#743 (comment)

But then immediately did not work for a PR.
alexaka1/distroless-dotnet-healthchecks#741 (comment)

(I thought maybe pinning to the cli tags instead of the action tags would work, but only after I realized the action downloads the latest opencode anyway, so this cannot affect anything)

[alexaka1]

@fwang, have you had a chance to look at this? What can I do to help? I keep trying the workflow from time to time, but I still get the same error.

[alexaka1]

I'm still having the same issues and have no clue what I'm doing wrong. Would appreciate some guidance on how I can help resolve this. Although I am kinda giving up on opencode-github as it has not worked 99.999% of the time since opening this issue 🙁

[rekram1-node]

ill take a look today