nx-cloud is at 15.0.2 (latest), but nx-cloud is throwing an error when using @nrwl/* packages at 15.2.0

Current Behavior

In CI we use

$ npx nx-cloud stop-all-agents

In order to stop agents when CI is cancelled/skipped in a way that the main workflow would miss. This was working fine last week, but then we noticed as of today nx-cloud is throwing the following error:

This version of Nx Cloud is incompatible with the @nrwl/* packages in your workspace.

Match your @nrwl/nx-cloud version to the same major version of your @nrwl/* packages and try again.

Expected Behavior

npx nx-cloud when using the latest version published shouldn’t cause any problems when using the latest version of the core tools.

Github Repo

No response

Steps to Reproduce

1. Update your workspace to latest 15.2.0 @nrwl/* packages
2. Run npx nx-cloud stop-all-agents
3. Notice the unexpected error telling you to try again.

Nx Report

Node : 18.11.0
   OS   : darwin arm64
   yarn : 1.22.19
   
   nx : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/angular : Not Found
   @nrwl/cypress : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/detox : Not Found
   @nrwl/devkit : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/esbuild : Not Found
   @nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/expo : Not Found
   @nrwl/express : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/jest : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/js : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/linter : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/nest : Not Found
   @nrwl/next : Not Found
   @nrwl/node : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/nx-cloud : 15.0.2   <--- Notice!!
   @nrwl/nx-plugin : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/react : Not Found
   @nrwl/react-native : Not Found
   @nrwl/rollup : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/schematics : Not Found
   @nrwl/storybook : Not Found
   @nrwl/web : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/webpack : 15.2.0
   @nrwl/workspace : 15.2.0
   typescript : 4.9.3
   ---------------------------------------
   Local workspace plugins:
         @hca/package-generator
   ---------------------------------------
   Community plugins:

Failure Logs

2022-11-21T23:50:35.6803133Z ##[group]Run npx nx-cloud stop-all-agents
2022-11-21T23:50:35.6803439Z npx nx-cloud stop-all-agents
2022-11-21T23:50:35.6856819Z shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
2022-11-21T23:50:35.6857034Z env:
2022-11-21T23:50:35.6857388Z   GITHUB_TOKEN: ***
2022-11-21T23:50:35.6857589Z ##[endgroup]
2022-11-21T23:50:36.5611327Z npm WARN exec The following package was not found and will be installed: nx-cloud@15.0.2
2022-11-21T23:50:37.3190435Z NX CLOUD ERROR
2022-11-21T23:50:37.3194595Z ---------------------------------------
2022-11-21T23:50:37.3195317Z This version of Nx Cloud is incompatible with the @nrwl/* packages in your workspace.
2022-11-21T23:50:37.3195829Z 
2022-11-21T23:50:37.3196639Z Match your @nrwl/nx-cloud version to the same major version of your @nrwl/* packages and try again.

Additional Information

No response

[fbartho]

Okay thanks for the info @StalkAltan, please consider this a ticket requesting at least one of those paths:

1. improve the error message when executing nx-cloud with a missing node_modules / in isolation
2. a) document npx nx-cloud to still need yarn install
3. b) improve nx-cloud stop-all-agents to not need a full yarn install

Feel free to close this ticket if those are filed elsewhere!

[StalkAltan]

The lack of node_modules would be your problem here.

Even though we recommend invoking nx-cloud with npx, it’s not because the package is able to run in isolation (though some commands might work). It’s more because node_modules caching is notoriously flaky, and using npx ensures that the bin directory alias for nx-cloud from the @nrwl/nx-cloud package works.

Although stop-all-agents could probably be made to run in isolation, I don’t see that happening with much urgency, since it could cause confusion when people want to use other commands from the package that do rely on a full Nx install existing (ex. nx-cloud record or nx-cloud upload-and-show-run-details).

Apologies for the inconvenience here. Like I mentioned, we could definitely improve the messaging here so the error makes you aware that we require the full install to be available.

Let me know if you have any other questions!