From 704cc13b09d7bb39f464166e787dbe88054641b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lamine Gueye <51838776+lamine2000@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 14:59:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix(cli): create output directory if it doesn't exist
 (#1445)

The compile and collections commands threw ENOENT when --output-path
pointed to a directory that hadn't been created yet. Add
mkdir({ recursive: true }) before writeFile in both handlers, matching
the pattern already used in the execute command's serialize-output.ts.

Fixes #859
---
 packages/cli/src/collections/handler.ts | 3 ++-
 packages/cli/src/compile/handler.ts     | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/cli/src/collections/handler.ts b/packages/cli/src/collections/handler.ts
index 33494b757..8ea8cc72d 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/collections/handler.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/collections/handler.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import path from 'node:path';
-import { readFile, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { mkdir, readFile, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
 
 import { Logger } from '../util/logger';
 import request from './request';
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ export const get = async (options: GetOptions, logger: Logger) => {
       null,
       options.pretty ? 2 : undefined
     );
+    await mkdir(path.dirname(options.outputPath!), { recursive: true });
     await writeFile(options.outputPath!, content);
     logger.always(`Wrote items to ${options.outputPath}`);
   } else {
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/compile/handler.ts b/packages/cli/src/compile/handler.ts
index c92c62f80..4c75415cc 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/compile/handler.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/compile/handler.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import { writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { mkdir, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { dirname } from 'node:path';
 import type { CompileOptions } from './command';
 import type { Logger } from '../util/logger';
 
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ const compileHandler = async (options: CompileOptions, logger: Logger) => {
   if (options.outputStdout) {
     logger.success('Result:\n\n' + result);
   } else {
+    await mkdir(dirname(options.outputPath!), { recursive: true });
     await writeFile(options.outputPath!, result as string);
     logger.success(`Compiled to ${options.outputPath}`);
   }

From f376b4ba7fa5e8aaf23f2cb66ceab80865dd829b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Clark <jclark@openfn.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 16:00:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] changeset

---
 .changeset/green-knives-knock.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/green-knives-knock.md

diff --git a/.changeset/green-knives-knock.md b/.changeset/green-knives-knock.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0560c462a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/green-knives-knock.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@openfn/cli': patch
+---
+
+Ensure output path exists on compile and collections commands