diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index 624348d802..6e0e30b402 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
     "playwright": "^1.47.2",
     "tree-sitter-wasms": "^0.1.11",
     "tsx": "^4.19.1",
+    "turndown": "^7.2.0",
     "typescript": "5.6.2",
     "vectra": "^0.9.0",
     "web-tree-sitter": "^0.22.2",
@@ -82,8 +83,8 @@
     "zx": "^8.1.8"
   },
   "scripts": {
-    "compile": "esbuild src/main.ts --metafile=./esbuild.meta.json --bundle --platform=node --target=node20 --outfile=built/genaiscript.cjs --external:tsx --external:esbuild --external:get-tsconfig --external:resolve-pkg-maps --external:dockerode --external:pdfjs-dist --external:web-tree-sitter --external:tree-sitter-wasms --external:promptfoo --external:typescript --external:@lvce-editor/ripgrep --external:gpt-3-encoder --external:mammoth --external:xlsx --external:mathjs --external:@azure/identity --external:gpt-tokenizer --external:playwright --external:@inquirer/prompts --external:jimp && node ../../scripts/patch-cli.mjs",
-    "compile-debug": "esbuild src/main.ts --sourcemap --metafile=./esbuild.meta.json --bundle --platform=node --target=node20 --outfile=built/genaiscript.cjs --external:tsx --external:esbuild --external:get-tsconfig --external:resolve-pkg-maps --external:dockerode --external:pdfjs-dist --external:web-tree-sitter --external:tree-sitter-wasms --external:promptfoo --external:typescript --external:@lvce-editor/ripgrep --external:gpt-3-encoder --external:mammoth --external:xlsx --external:mathjs --external:@azure/identity --external:gpt-tokenizer --external:playwright --external:@inquirer/prompts --external:jimp",
+    "compile": "esbuild src/main.ts --metafile=./esbuild.meta.json --bundle --platform=node --target=node20 --outfile=built/genaiscript.cjs --external:tsx --external:esbuild --external:get-tsconfig --external:resolve-pkg-maps --external:dockerode --external:pdfjs-dist --external:web-tree-sitter --external:tree-sitter-wasms --external:promptfoo --external:typescript --external:@lvce-editor/ripgrep --external:gpt-3-encoder --external:mammoth --external:xlsx --external:mathjs --external:@azure/identity --external:gpt-tokenizer --external:playwright --external:@inquirer/prompts --external:jimp --external:turndown --external:vectra && node ../../scripts/patch-cli.mjs",
+    "compile-debug": "esbuild src/main.ts --sourcemap --metafile=./esbuild.meta.json --bundle --platform=node --target=node20 --outfile=built/genaiscript.cjs --external:tsx --external:esbuild --external:get-tsconfig --external:resolve-pkg-maps --external:dockerode --external:pdfjs-dist --external:web-tree-sitter --external:tree-sitter-wasms --external:promptfoo --external:typescript --external:@lvce-editor/ripgrep --external:gpt-3-encoder --external:mammoth --external:xlsx --external:mathjs --external:@azure/identity --external:gpt-tokenizer --external:playwright --external:@inquirer/prompts --external:jimp --external:turndown --external:vectra",
     "postcompile": "node built/genaiscript.cjs info help > ../../docs/src/content/docs/reference/cli/commands.md",
     "vis:treemap": "npx --yes esbuild-visualizer --metadata esbuild.meta.json --filename esbuild.treemap.html",
     "vis:network": "npx --yes esbuild-visualizer --metadata esbuild.meta.json --filename esbuild.network.html --template network",
diff --git a/packages/core/src/github.ts b/packages/core/src/github.ts
index 7a0a5dbed1..4b672eaffd 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/github.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/github.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { createFetch } from "./fetch"
 import { runtimeHost } from "./host"
 import { link, prettifyMarkdown } from "./markdown"
 import { assert, logError, logVerbose, normalizeInt } from "./util"
+import { shellRemoveAsciiColors } from "./shell"
 
 export interface GithubConnectionInfo {
     token: string
@@ -605,13 +606,13 @@ export class GitHubClient implements GitHub {
         }
 
         function cleanLog(text: string) {
-            return text
-                .replace(
+            return shellRemoveAsciiColors(
+                text.replace(
                     // timestamps
                     /^?\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\.\d{2,}Z /gm,
                     ""
                 )
-                .replace(/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m/g, "") // ascii colors
+            )
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/src/html.ts b/packages/core/src/html.ts
index 3feef21163..251b116aba 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/html.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/html.ts
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ import { convert as convertToText } from "html-to-text" // Import the convert fu
 
 import { TraceOptions } from "./trace" // Import TraceOptions for optional logging features
 
-import Turndown from "turndown" // Import Turndown library for HTML to Markdown conversion
-
 import { tabletojson } from "tabletojson" // Import tabletojson for converting HTML tables to JSON
 
 /**
@@ -52,11 +50,15 @@ export function HTMLToText(
  * @param options - Optional tracing parameters.
  * @returns The Markdown representation of the HTML.
  */
-export function HTMLToMarkdown(html: string, options?: TraceOptions): string {
+export async function HTMLToMarkdown(
+    html: string,
+    options?: TraceOptions
+): Promise<string> {
     if (!html) return html // Return original content if no HTML is provided
     const { trace } = options || {} // Extract trace for logging if available
 
     try {
+        const Turndown = (await import("turndown")).default // Import Turndown library for HTML to Markdown conversion
         const res = new Turndown().turndown(html) // Use Turndown library to convert HTML to Markdown
         return res
     } catch (e) {
diff --git a/packages/core/src/shell.ts b/packages/core/src/shell.ts
index d776ec871c..0452d03ae3 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/shell.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/shell.ts
@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@ export function shellParse(cmd: string): string[] {
 export function shellQuote(args: string[]): string {
     return quote(args)
 }
+
+export function shellRemoveAsciiColors(text: string) {
+    return text?.replace(/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m/g, "") // ascii colors
+}