## TL;DR

The Braintrust CLI cannot bundle some jsdom-heavy dependency graphs, so it fails where a plain node run would work. Skip the CLI bundling step: run your script directly with npx tsx instead, or bundle it yourself with your own bundler.

## Steps

1. The Braintrust CLI cannot bundle some jsdom-heavy dependency graphs, so it fails where a plain node run would work. Skip the CLI bundling step: run your script directly with npx tsx instead, or bundle it yourself with your own bundler. Note that --bundle is an outdated alias for --push, so make sure you are using the flag you think you are.

2. _Source: https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-sdk-javascript/issues/431 (Braintrust)_

## When to use

You are seeing this: Note that --bundle is an outdated alias for --push, so make sure you are using the flag you think you are. _Source: https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-sdk-javascript/issues/431 (Braintrust)_ Use this skill when you run into "JS: err running braintrust CLI".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

## Edge cases

- Note that --bundle is an outdated alias for --push, so make sure you are using the flag you think you are. _Source: https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-sdk-javascript/issues/431 (Braintrust)_

## Sources

- https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-sdk-javascript/issues/431

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