From e03a7a2f91abbc99e2370b89565a295df13f303d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:14:38 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 01/17] docs(devlog): decode the Cursor tool-call and tool-result wire path Roadmap unit for the cursor-call hardening loop. Records the decode of protobuf-events/protobuf-request/live-transport, two proven High defects (clean-EOF terminal bypass, tool-result images destroyed despite McpImageContent support), three disproved hypotheses, and the external evidence corroborating each. --- .../000-index.md | 58 ++++++++++++ .../001-toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md | 53 +++++++++++ .../002-toolresult-encoding-decode.md | 83 +++++++++++++++++ .../003-transport-terminal-decode.md | 84 +++++++++++++++++ .../004-external-wire-evidence.md | 66 +++++++++++++ .../010-phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md | 92 +++++++++++++++++++ ...020-phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md | 88 ++++++++++++++++++ 7 files changed, 524 insertions(+) create mode 100644 devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000-index.md create mode 100644 devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/001-toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md create mode 100644 devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/002-toolresult-encoding-decode.md create mode 100644 devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/003-transport-terminal-decode.md create mode 100644 devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/004-external-wire-evidence.md create mode 100644 devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010-phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md create mode 100644 devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020-phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000-index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000-index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c4b7a50eed --- /dev/null +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000-index.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +# 260817 — Cursor tool-call decode and hardening + +Unit goal: decode how the Cursor adapter encodes/decodes tool calls and tool +results, prove where information is lost or a turn dies mid-call, and land the +fixes the decode justifies. + +Trigger: `cursor/grok-4.6` sessions running Computer Use / `node_repl` break +repeatedly — the turn dies mid tool call, the model loses the result, and the +session resets. This unit stops guessing and reads the wire. + +## Document map + +| Doc | Content | +|-----|---------| +| `001` | Tool-call lifecycle decode (`protobuf-events.ts`) | +| `002` | Tool-result encoding decode (`protobuf-request.ts`, `gen/agent_pb.ts`) | +| `003` | Transport terminal decode (`live-transport.ts`, `transport-retry.ts`) | +| `004` | External wire/format evidence (public reverse-engineering, vendor docs) | +| `010` | Phase 1 — gate the clean-EOF terminal (High) | +| `020` | Phase 2 — tool-result image passthrough (High) | +| `030` | Phase 3 — `xai/grok-4.6` does not use `apply_patch` | + +## Findings summary + +Three defects are proven by source reading, each with its own implementation +phase. Two hypotheses were **disproved** and are recorded as such, because a +decode that only confirms its own priors is not a decode. + +| # | Defect | Severity | Phase | +|---|--------|----------|-------| +| F1 | A clean HTTP/2 EOF after >=1 frame settles the transport as success without `turnEnded`, so `finalizeTurnEvents` never runs and an open tool call vanishes. Non-streaming reports the truncated turn as `completed`. | High | `010` | +| F2 | Every image part of a tool result is replaced with placeholder text, even though the Cursor protobuf has a first-class `McpImageContent` case that the adapter already uses elsewhere. | High | `020` | +| F3 | `xai/grok-4.6` does not use `apply_patch`. | TBD (`030`) | `030` | + +### Disproved hypotheses + +- **"Open tool calls are silently dropped at finalize."** False. When a real + `turnEnded` arrives, `finalizeTurnEvents` fails closed with an explicit + incomplete-tool-call error (`protobuf-events.ts:1361`). The defect is not the + finalizer; it is that a clean EOF never reaches it (F1). +- **"`maxClientToolCalls` / unknown-tool errors come from `commitToolCall`."** + False. Both originate in `recordToolCall` (`protobuf-events.ts:1103`, `:1107`). + `commitToolCall` only rejects invalid freeform and shell-bridge args. +- **"Tool-result text is unbounded and blows the request budget."** Partly false. + There is no single whole-request cap, but external-model root replay is pruned + to 192 roots / 512 KiB with UTF-8 truncation (`protobuf-request.ts:60,122`), + and blobs are admitted under 16 MiB/entry and 64 MiB/store + (`native-exec.ts:81`). Unbounded growth is bounded by pruning, not by failure. + +## Execution contract (user-set) + +- Branch `cursor-call`; push continuously with `--no-verify`; pushing pre-approved. +- CI verification explicitly waived by the user for this loop. +- Authoritative suite runs on `ssh lidge`, not the local workstation. +- Parallel subagents pre-approved: `gpt-5.6-sol` medium for code decode/audit, + `gpt-5.6-luna` low for web discovery. +- One decade doc per implementation phase; one phase per PABCD cycle. + diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/001-toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/001-toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..634a121383 --- /dev/null +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/001-toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +# 001 — Tool-call lifecycle decode + +Source: `src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-events.ts`. Verified by direct read plus +an independent `gpt-5.6-sol` audit. + +## The lifecycle + +Cursor delivers a client tool call across three interaction updates, and the +adapter deliberately does **not** mirror them one-to-one downstream: + +| Cursor update | Adapter action | Emitted downstream | +|---------------|----------------|--------------------| +| `toolCallStarted` (`:1249`) | `recordToolCall` opens the call | **nothing** (deferred) | +| `toolCallDelta` (`:1265`) | `bufferToolArgs` keeps the longest cumulative args | nothing | +| `toolCallCompleted` (`:1269`) | `resolveCompletedArgs` + `commitToolCall` | `tool_call_start` -> `tool_call_delta` -> `tool_call_end` | + +The deferral is intentional and correct: Cursor can open several calls in +parallel or interleave their arg streams, while the Codex bridge tracks a single +current call. Emitting each completed call as one atomic unit serializes them +safely. The cost is that an **incomplete** call has emitted nothing at all, which +is what makes F1 (see `003`) invisible rather than merely wrong. + +## Argument resolution + +`resolveCompletedArgs` (`:354`) picks in order: + +1. the structured protobuf map when it has bytes (canonical, schema-normalized); +2. otherwise buffered streamed text, normalized when it is complete JSON; +3. otherwise the buffered text **verbatim**. + +Case 3 is deliberate: passing malformed text through lets the bridge reject it +(`bridge.ts:1070`) instead of silently converting truncated args into `{}` and +executing a tool with the wrong arguments. `argsTextDelta` is cumulative, so the +buffer keeps the longest value seen rather than concatenating. + +## Error surfaces + +`recordToolCall` returns an error for an un-advertised tool name (`:1103`) and +for exceeding `maxClientToolCalls` (`:1107`). `commitToolCall` returns an error +only for invalid freeform args (`:1160`) and invalid shell-bridge args (`:1163`). +A failed structured-edit conversion deliberately returns **text**, not an error +(`:1175`), keeping the turn alive. + +Every `error` `CursorServerMessage` is turn-fatal downstream: it maps to +`AdapterEvent.error` (`message-mapper.ts:28`) and then `response.failed` +(`bridge.ts:1219`). + +## Verdict + +The lifecycle itself is sound. Two prior hypotheses were disproved here (see +`000`), and no change to this file is proposed for its own sake — `010` touches +it only to route the clean-EOF terminal into the existing finalizer. + diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/002-toolresult-encoding-decode.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/002-toolresult-encoding-decode.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a3d6b175be --- /dev/null +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/002-toolresult-encoding-decode.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +# 002 — Tool-result encoding decode + +Source: `src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`, `gen/agent_pb.ts`, +`native-exec-mcp.ts`. Verified by direct read plus an independent +`gpt-5.6-sol` audit. + +## F2 — images are destroyed, and the wire did not ask for that (High) + +`contentToText` (`protobuf-request.ts:328`) maps every non-text part of a tool +result to a literal placeholder: + +```ts +.map(part => part.type === "text" ? part.text : `[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ${part.detail ?? "auto"}]`) +``` + +`toolResultPart` (`:384`) then always builds exactly one `text` content item. So +a screenshot returned by Computer Use, a browser QA tool, or any image-returning +MCP tool reaches Cursor as the string +`[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: auto]` and nothing else. + +**The Cursor protobuf supports images.** `McpToolResultContentItem.content` is a +oneof with exactly two defined cases (`gen/agent_pb.ts:8476`): + +```ts +content: + | { value: McpTextContent; case: "text" } // field 1 + | { value: McpImageContent; case: "image" } // field 2 + | { case: undefined; value?: undefined }; +``` + +`McpImageContent` (`:8449`) carries `data: Uint8Array` (bytes, base64 in JSON) +and `mimeType: string`. + +**The adapter already knows how to send one.** `native-exec-mcp.ts:115` decodes +base64 from an MCP block and emits a real `McpImageContent`. That path covers +tools invoked through `CursorMcpManager`; it does not cover Codex +`OcxToolResultMessage` values flowing through `protobuf-request.ts`. The +placeholder is therefore not a wire limitation but an unfinished migration — the +"phase 3" in its own text. + +This is the direct mechanism behind the reported symptom: a model driving +Computer Use gets a blind result, cannot see what happened, and retries or +resets. + +## The three result paths in `conversationTurns` + +| Path | Behavior | Lines | +|------|----------|-------| +| External model | `AssistantMessage` with `[Tool Result]`/`[Tool Error]` + placeholder | 481-490 | +| Native model, matching pending call | `toolResultPart(result)` attached to the MCP call — still text-only | 493-496 | +| Native model, no matching call | `toolResultToText` as an `AssistantMessage` | 498-503 | + +All three lose the image. A fix must cover the native path (real +`McpImageContent`) and degrade honestly on the external path. + +## Other image surfaces (context, not in scope) + +User-message images are also placeholdered, at `request-builder.ts:201` and +`protobuf-request.ts:314`. The schema would support them: `UserMessage` has +`selectedContext` -> `selectedImages` (`agent_pb.ts:1823`, `:11178`), and +`SelectedImage` accepts `blobId`, inline `data`, or `blobIdWithData` +(`:10389`). No adapter code populates these. Out of scope for this unit; noted +so a later unit does not have to rediscover it. + +## Size limits (hypothesis partly disproved) + +There is no single whole-request cap and no cap inside `contentToText`. What +exists: + +- tool catalog: 330 tools / 120,000 protobuf bytes (`request-builder.ts:29`) — + definitions only, not results; +- external root replay: 192 roots / 512 KiB with UTF-8 truncation marked + `…[truncated for Cursor external replay budget]` (`protobuf-request.ts:60`, `:122`); +- blob store: 16 MiB per blob, 4,096 entries, 64 MiB total, 15-minute TTL + (`native-exec.ts:81`); +- `requestScope` pins blobs for the in-flight request so eviction cannot + invalidate advertised ids; over-capacity raises `CursorBlobAdmissionError` + rather than truncating (`native-exec.ts:363`, `:374`). + +Implication for `020`: adding real image bytes to results makes the blob and +replay budgets load-bearing, so the fix must bound image payloads deliberately +instead of trusting these limits to absorb them. + diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/003-transport-terminal-decode.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/003-transport-terminal-decode.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6a67ca5df8 --- /dev/null +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/003-transport-terminal-decode.md @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +# 003 — Transport terminal decode + +Source: `src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts`, `transport-retry.ts`, +`src/bridge.ts`. Verified by direct read plus an independent `gpt-5.6-sol` +audit that returned FAIL on this surface. + +## Terminal settlement paths + +`createTerminalSettler()` (`live-transport.ts:102`) is single-shot: the first +settle wins, later ones are ignored. + +| Event | Classification | +|-------|----------------| +| Connect end-stream frame with error or malformed payload | fatal (`:891`, `:900`) | +| Successful `{}` trailer | **no settlement**; waits for HTTP/2 `end` (`:175`) | +| Nonzero `grpc-status` trailer | fatal (`:970`) | +| HTTP/2 `end` with leftover frame bytes | fatal `ConnectFrameError` (`:1015`) | +| HTTP/2 `end` with zero frames | fatal unexpected EOF (`:1024`) | +| HTTP/2 `end` with >=1 complete frame | **unconditional graceful finish** (`:1029`) | +| Socket/session error | fatal via `failAndClear` (`:824`, `:975`) | +| Socket error after intentional client-tool suspension | graceful, `expectedClose` (`:806`) | +| Abort | fatal unless `expectedClose` or already settled (`:1036`) | +| First-frame timeout (30s default, `:88`) | fatal (`:835`) | + +A fatal settlement makes `run()` throw (`:619`); a graceful settlement only +marks the iterator done (`:597`). + +## F1 — the clean-EOF gap (High) + +The last row of that table is the defect. The `end` handler drains queued frame +work, then classifies: leftover bytes -> fail, zero frames -> fail, otherwise +`settler.settleFinish()` — **without consulting `state.terminated`, and without +asking whether the application-level `turnEnded` frame ever arrived**. + +Consequences when Cursor's stream ends cleanly mid-turn: + +1. `finalizeTurnEvents` never runs, so the fail-closed open-tool-call check at + `protobuf-events.ts:1361` — the code written for exactly this hazard — is + bypassed. +2. The adapter emits neither `done` nor `error`. Only pre-EOF text/reasoning + reached the bridge; the tool call was buffered and deferred, so it is simply + gone (`protobuf-events.ts:1249`). +3. Streaming Responses partly repairs this: a terminal-less adapter EOF becomes + `response.incomplete` with reason `adapter_eof` (`bridge.ts:1283`). +4. **Non-streaming does not.** With no error and no incomplete event, status + defaults to `"completed"` (`bridge.ts:1829`), so a truncated turn is reported + as a success. + +This matches the external report of a `cursor-grok` stream ending with +`hasToolCalls: true` and partial content before `turnEnded` (see `004`). + +## Retry behavior + +The retry guard (`transport-retry.ts:99`) is correct and must not be loosened: + +```ts +const canRetry = + !emittedAny && + attempt < CURSOR_RETRY_ATTEMPTS - 1 && + !signal?.aborted && + requestUncommitted(transport) && + isRetryableCursorError(err); +``` + +`emittedAny` is set before `onEvent()` (`:93`), so any emitted event blocks +retry — replay after partial emission would duplicate output. Note the second- +order consequence of F1: a clean EOF **throws nothing**, so the retry wrapper +returns success and never evaluates the guard at all (`:97`). Fixing F1 to +throw a typed error is what makes this path reachable in the first place. + +## Idle and keep-alive + +- First-frame deadline 30s (`:88`), cleared by the first raw `data` chunk (`:940`). +- No post-first-frame idle timeout in the transport. +- `clientHeartbeat` written upstream every 5s (`:1042`). +- The Responses bridge has a separate ~300s silence watchdog (`bridge.ts:1321`). + +For a Responses-owned Computer Use call the transport normally emits `done` and +cancels Cursor before the client runs the minutes-long tool (`:737`), so tool +duration should not idle that stream. An inline native execution, or a call left +open awaiting completion, can still hit the 300s watchdog while 5s heartbeats +keep the socket alive — the socket is healthy and the turn is dead, which is the +worst shape for diagnosis. + diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/004-external-wire-evidence.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/004-external-wire-evidence.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b74cb034ae --- /dev/null +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/004-external-wire-evidence.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +# 004 — External wire and format evidence + +Gathered by a five-lane `gpt-5.6-luna` discovery swarm, then filtered here. +Public reverse-engineering of Cursor's protocol is **lead-grade, not primary**: +the repository's own generated `gen/agent_pb.ts` outranks all of it and is what +`002` relies on. These sources matter for behavior we cannot read from our tree. + +## Load-bearing + +**A cursor-grok stream is reported to end before `turnEnded` with tool calls in +flight.** A 2026-07-27 report for `cursor-grok-4.5-high` records +`hasToolCalls: true`, partial content, and "Cursor stream ended before +turnEnded", requiring manual continuation — attributed to the HTTP/2 stream +ending without the application-level frame. + (lead) + +This is independent corroboration that F1 is a real upstream behavior and not a +theoretical branch. It is the reason `010` treats clean EOF as a first-class +terminal state rather than an edge case. + +**Cursor documents that MCP tool responses can return base64 images.** + (primary for product +behavior). Combined with `McpImageContent` in our generated schema, image +results are supported end to end, which is what makes `020` a passthrough fix +rather than a feature request. + +**MCP specifies images in tool results.** `CallToolResult.content` is a +`ContentBlock[]` whose union includes `ImageContent` with base64 `data` and +`mimeType`. (primary) + +**Naive gateway translation of image tool results fails loudly.** LiteLLM passed +Chat-Completions-style `image_url` content into a Responses `function_call_output` +and OpenAI rejected it, because Responses expects `input_image`. + (lead). Design consequence for +`020`: emit the upstream's own image representation, never a foreign one. + +**Bun reuses stale pooled keep-alive sockets without liveness checks**, so a +reaped connection hangs until Bun's ceiling instead of reconnecting. + (primary, closed "not planned"). +Relevant to long-lived Cursor streams; not itself proven to be our defect. + +## Context only + +- gRPC/Connect require status trailers for normal completion; a body without the + encoded trailer must not be treated as authoritative success. + (primary), + (primary). This is the + protocol-level statement of exactly what F1 gets wrong. +- xAI documents Grok 4.6 tool calling over streaming and synchronous modes. + (primary). No official + changelog naming grok-4.6 as dropping tool calls was found. +- A Grok-compatible path was reported returning empty `arguments` with the real + JSON in `partialJson`. (lead). +- Codex Computer Use is bridged through the `node_repl` runtime; several 2026 + reports describe it being detected but unattached, with kernel resets. + (lead). Some of the user's + observed instability may originate here rather than in our adapter — recorded + so we do not over-attribute every symptom to the Cursor path. + +## Negative result + +No public authoritative `.proto` confirming `McpSuccess` or +`McpToolResultContentItem` was found; available dumps use older +`ClientSideToolV2Call` terminology or are explicitly speculative. Our generated +schema remains the only trustworthy source, which is why `002` quotes it directly. + diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010-phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010-phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4d6f966ed6 --- /dev/null +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010-phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +# 010 — Phase 1: gate the clean-EOF terminal + +Answers **F1** (`003`). Severity High. One PABCD cycle. + +## Problem restated + +`live-transport.ts:1029` settles gracefully whenever the HTTP/2 stream ends with +at least one complete frame, regardless of whether Cursor ever sent the +application-level `turnEnded`. The fail-closed open-tool-call check that already +exists (`protobuf-events.ts:1361`) is therefore skipped exactly when it is +needed, and non-streaming callers see `status: "completed"` on a truncated turn +(`bridge.ts:1829`). + +## Contract to establish + +A Cursor turn may only settle successfully when the application says it ended. +Concretely, at the `end` handler, after the existing leftover-bytes and +zero-frame checks: + +1. If `state.terminated` is true — a real `turnEnded` was processed — settle + gracefully. Unchanged behavior. +2. If `this.expectedClose` is true — we intentionally suspended the stream to run + a client tool — settle gracefully. Unchanged behavior; this path is how a + normal Responses-owned tool call works (`:737`, `:806`). +3. Otherwise the stream ended without application termination. Run the same + finalization the `turnEnded` path runs, so open calls produce the existing + explicit truncation error, and settle **fail** with a typed error. + +Point 3 is the whole change. It routes an unlabeled EOF into machinery that +already exists rather than inventing new reporting. + +## Why fail rather than emit `done` + +Emitting `done` would assert the model finished its turn, which is precisely the +claim we cannot support. A typed failure is also what makes the retry guard +reachable: today a clean EOF throws nothing, so `transport-retry.ts:97` returns +success without ever evaluating `canRetry`. With a thrown typed error, a turn +that emitted nothing downstream (`!emittedAny`) and is still uncommitted becomes +retryable — turning a dead turn into a transparent retry. The guard itself must +not be loosened; replay after partial emission would duplicate output. + +## Diff-level plan + +**`src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts`** + +- In the `end` handler's drain-then-classify block, after the `framesReceived === 0` + branch, add the termination check before `settler.settleFinish()`: + - allow graceful finish when `this.expectedClose` or the event state reports + terminated; + - otherwise `releaseBacklogLease()`, then `settler.settleFail(...)` with a new + typed error carrying the frame count and any open tool-call ids. +- The event state is already reachable from the transport for finalization; if it + is not, thread the existing state reference rather than duplicating it. + +**`src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts`** + +- Add a `CursorStreamTruncatedError` (name it to match existing conventions in + that file) so the failure is typed, not a bare `Error`. +- Classify it as **retryable** in `isRetryableCursorError` only for the + no-bytes-emitted case; the `!emittedAny` guard already enforces that, so the + classification stays simple. + +**`src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-events.ts`** + +- No behavior change. `finalizeTurnEvents` is reused as-is; if it is not exported + in a form the transport can call at EOF, export a thin wrapper. + +**`src/bridge.ts`** — out of scope for this phase. Once the adapter throws, the +non-streaming `completed` default is no longer reachable via this path. A +defensive change there would be a separate unit with its own evidence. + +## Tests (`tests/cursor-live-transport.test.ts`, or a new `cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts`) + +Each must fail before the change and pass after: + +1. **EOF after frames without `turnEnded`, no open call** -> transport rejects + with the typed truncation error, not a graceful finish. +2. **EOF after frames with an open tool call** -> the emitted events include the + existing "incomplete tool call(s)" error naming the call id, and the run fails. +3. **EOF after a real `turnEnded`** -> still settles gracefully, still emits + `done`. Regression guard for the normal path. +4. **EOF during `expectedClose`** (client-tool suspension) -> still graceful. + This is the one that would break every working Computer Use turn if the gate + were written naively, so it is mandatory. +5. **Retry**: a truncated EOF with nothing emitted downstream is retried; one + with prior emission is not. + +## Done when + +All five tests pass, `bun run typecheck` is clean, and the cursor-focused suite +passes on `ssh lidge`. Evidence: exact command, output tail, pushed SHA. + diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020-phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020-phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d2253f84cc --- /dev/null +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020-phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +# 020 — Phase 2: tool-result image passthrough + +Answers **F2** (`002`). Severity High. One PABCD cycle. Depends on `010` only by +branch order, not by logic. + +## Problem restated + +`contentToText` (`protobuf-request.ts:328`) replaces every image part of a tool +result with `[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ...]`, and +`toolResultPart` (`:384`) always emits a single `text` item — even though +`McpToolResultContentItem` has an `image` case (`gen/agent_pb.ts:8476`) and +`native-exec-mcp.ts:115` already constructs `McpImageContent` correctly for the +MCP path. + +## Contract to establish + +A tool result carrying images reaches Cursor as real image content on the native +path, and as an honest, compact description everywhere else. + +1. **Native path** (`toolResultPart`): emit one `McpToolResultContentItem` per + part, preserving order — `text` items for text, `image` items carrying decoded + bytes and `mimeType` for images. +2. **External path** (`AssistantMessage` replay, lines 481-503): the wire has no + image slot, so keep a placeholder — but a truthful one that states an image + was produced and was not replayable, rather than "unsupported by phase 3". +3. **Decode**: reuse the existing base64 decoding helper from + `native-exec-mcp.ts` rather than writing a second one. A part that cannot be + decoded degrades to a placeholder; it never throws and never sends empty bytes. + +## Bounding (mandatory, from `002`) + +Real bytes make the blob and replay budgets load-bearing. This phase must: + +- cap per-image bytes and total images per result, well under the 16 MiB blob + admission limit (`native-exec.ts:81`), replacing anything over the cap with a + placeholder naming the size; +- keep images out of the external replay-root text budget entirely, so an image + can never consume the 512 KiB history allowance (`protobuf-request.ts:60`); +- prefer dropping the **oldest** images when several results carry them, since the + most recent screenshot is the one the model is reasoning about. + +## On the existing `wip/cursor-tool-result-text` draft + +The branch `wip/cursor-tool-result-text` adds `tool-result-text.ts` with a +Computer-Use-specific text compactor: it keeps ~80 "interesting" AX lines matched +by a regex, and swaps the image placeholder for a shorter one. + +**Judgment: reject the image half, reconsider the text half separately.** It +compacts the placeholder instead of sending the image, so it does not address F2 +at all. Its text compaction is heuristic — a hardcoded regex over accessibility +output and a tool-name pattern (`/node_repl/i`) — and it discards real result +content on a guess. Once images pass through properly, the pressure that +motivated it largely disappears. If AX text volume is still a problem afterwards, +it earns its own unit with measurements. Do not land it as part of this phase. + +## Diff-level plan + +**`src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`** + +- Add `toolResultContentItems(message)` returning `McpToolResultContentItem[]`: + map parts in order, text -> `McpTextContent`, image -> `McpImageContent` via the + shared decoder, applying the caps above. +- `toolResultPart` uses that array instead of the single hardcoded text item. +- Keep `contentToText` for the external/text paths, with the placeholder reworded + to state that an image was produced and omitted from replay. +- Preserve the existing `[tool_result]` envelope (`call_id`, `name`, `is_error`) + in `toolResultToText`; only the image rendering changes. + +**`src/adapters/cursor/native-exec-mcp.ts`** + +- Export the base64 -> bytes helper (or lift it to a shared module) so both call + sites decode identically. No behavior change on the MCP path. + +## Tests (`tests/cursor-request-builder.test.ts` or a new `cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts`) + +1. A tool result with one text and one image part produces two content items in + order, the second being case `image` with the exact decoded bytes and mime type. +2. A string-content tool result still produces exactly one text item (regression). +3. An oversized image is replaced by a placeholder naming its size, and no + oversized bytes reach the request. +4. An undecodable base64 payload degrades to a placeholder without throwing. +5. The external-model replay path emits no image bytes and keeps its text budget. + +## Done when + +All five pass, typecheck clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed. +Evidence: exact command, output tail, pushed SHA. + From 46296fe976cb685e3438ed4d50af7b60d7030e74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:15:24 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 02/17] =?UTF-8?q?docs(devlog):=20add=20phase=203=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20xai/grok-4.6=20apply=5Fpatch=20affordance=20gap?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Root cause: the freeform custom-tool contract is erased on the openai-chat path (parser.ts:184/189, openai-chat.ts:1183/1194), so Grok sees an ordinary function with no guidance to use it. Decoding already works; this is an affordance defect. --- .../030-phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md | 115 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 115 insertions(+) create mode 100644 devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030-phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030-phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030-phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e71b374af9 --- /dev/null +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030-phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +# 030 — Phase 3: `xai/grok-4.6` does not use `apply_patch` + +Added mid-loop at the user's request (LOOP-UNIT-CHAIN-01). Verified by an +independent `gpt-5.6-sol` investigation. This is a **different provider** from +the rest of the unit — `xai`, not `cursor` — but the same underlying subject: +what a model is actually told it can call. + +## Root cause + +Codex advertises `apply_patch` as a **freeform/custom** tool: `type: "custom"` +with a grammar, not a JSON-schema function. On the xai path that contract is +erased twice: + +1. `src/responses/parser.ts:184` discards the custom tool's `format`/grammar and + substitutes `{input: string}` (`:189`). +2. `src/adapters/openai-chat.ts:1183` serializes every internal tool — including + `freeform: true` ones — as `type: "function"` (`:1194`). + +xai resolves to the `openai-chat` adapter (`registry.ts:985`, +`adapters/registry.ts:57`) and always posts to `/chat/completions` +(`openai-chat-url.ts:7`); OAuth only swaps URL/headers +(`xai-transport.ts:101`, `:142`). So Grok sees an ordinary function and is +implicitly asked to (a) pick it, (b) author the entire Codex patch language +inside one JSON string, and (c) get `*** Begin Patch` exactly right — with no +guidance saying so. + +The tool is **not** dropped by schema normalization: `{input: string}` is a +concrete object and passes the filter (`openai-chat.ts:1141`, `:1193`). + +## The return path is already correct + +If Grok does call it, decoding works: the tool stays tagged `freeform: true` +(`parser.ts:196`), `buildToolBridgeMaps` records it +(`collaboration.ts:130`), the bridge recognizes the name (`bridge.ts:1023`), +unwraps `{input}` (`:220`), and emits a Responses `custom_tool_call` (`:621`). + +**So this is an affordance defect, not a codec defect.** Nothing downstream needs +fixing, which is why the existing conformance test passes while the real behavior +fails: `tests/adapter-tool-conformance.test.ts:358` fabricates a valid upstream +call and checks decoding. It proves round-trip, never that Grok chooses the tool. + +## Why Cursor does not have this problem + +Cursor detects a request-declared freeform `apply_patch` +(`cursor/tool-definitions.ts:241`), synthesizes model-native `edit_file` / +`multi_edit` tools (`:274`), advertises them as client-tool definitions +(`:667`), and injects system guidance preferring them (`:637`). Calls come back +as structured edits and are translated into a valid patch +(`protobuf-events.ts:1170`). The xai path has only a generic catalog nudge that +lists names without recommending anything (`openai-chat.ts:621`, +`tool-catalog-nudge.ts:59`). + +## xAI capability (checked, not assumed) + +As of 2026-08-17 xAI documents client tools as JSON-schema function calls and +requires a JSON object for `parameters`; it does not document OpenAI's +`type: "custom"` grammar form, and describes Chat Completions as function-calling +only. , + + +There is no `supportsCustomTools` capability flag in the registry +(`registry.ts:244`). `src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts:59` converts custom to +function generically but explicitly exempts `apply_patch` (`:1`), and it belongs +to the `openai-responses` path, not this one. + +## Decision + +**Option 2 first (guidance), then reassess.** Rejected alternatives: + +- *Structured edit aliases for xai* (mirroring Cursor) is the most likely to work + but is a large new surface: two synthetic tools, a translation path, and + provenance gating so a legitimate MCP `edit_file` is never hijacked. That gate + exists in Cursor for a reason (#1036). It is the fallback if guidance measurably + fails, not the opening move. +- *Route xai through native Responses* is cleanest in principle but xAI does not + document support for grammar tools, and it risks OAuth transport, reasoning + replay, and continuation regressions. Requires a live capability probe first. + +Guidance is small, reversible, and directly addresses the proven gap: Grok is +never told that `apply_patch` is the edit tool or what its payload looks like. + +## Diff-level plan + +**`src/adapters/openai-chat.ts`** (or a small helper beside +`tool-catalog-nudge.ts`) + +- When the translated catalog contains a tool that was `freeform: true` and named + `apply_patch`, append a short, explicit system note: prefer `apply_patch` for + every file edit; pass the whole patch as the `input` string; the payload must + begin `*** Begin Patch` and end `*** End Patch`; include one `*** Update File:` + / `*** Add File:` header per file; do not wrap it in markdown fences. +- Gate strictly on provenance — the request declared a freeform `apply_patch` — + so a provider without that tool gets no note. Keep it additive to the existing + nudge rather than replacing it. +- Keep it byte-cheap; this rides on every request. + +## Tests (`tests/xai-apply-patch-guidance.test.ts`) + +1. A request declaring freeform `apply_patch` produces the guidance note in the + outgoing system content, exactly once. +2. A request without `apply_patch` produces no note (no leakage to other setups). +3. The note does not displace or duplicate the existing catalog nudge. +4. The advertised tool is still a valid `type: "function"` with `{input: string}` + — guidance must not alter the wire schema. +5. A returned `apply_patch` function call still decodes to a Responses + `custom_tool_call` (regression over `bridge.ts:621`). + +## Honest limit + +Guidance changes the odds, not the contract. Verifying that Grok 4.6 actually +uses `apply_patch` needs a live xai call, which this loop's evidence rules do not +let me fake with a fixture. The tests above prove the note is delivered correctly; +the behavioral claim stays open until a live run, and `030` will say so rather +than declaring victory from a green suite. + From fe2e78964f5a7dfe106a385a356af08778500616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:16:21 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 03/17] docs(devlog): use underscore-numbered doc names (LEXICO-SPLIT-01) --- .../260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/{000-index.md => 000_index.md} | 0 ...lcall-lifecycle-decode.md => 001_toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md} | 0 ...esult-encoding-decode.md => 002_toolresult-encoding-decode.md} | 0 ...nsport-terminal-decode.md => 003_transport-terminal-decode.md} | 0 ...04-external-wire-evidence.md => 004_external-wire-evidence.md} | 0 ...se1-clean-eof-terminal.md => 010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md} | 0 ...-passthrough.md => 020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md} | 0 ...tch-affordance.md => 030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md} | 0 8 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 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c2978228293aa0b37693ba79c96e2871537e9e2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:28:03 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 04/17] docs(devlog): correct the roadmap unit after an adversarial audit returned FAIL Ten findings, each re-verified against source before acceptance. Load-bearing ones: the 010 retry claim is impossible because committed is set on HTTP/2 connect; 010 had no single terminal owner; state.terminated also covers the synthetic client-tool finalize; 030 conceded that per-property apply_patch guidance already exists, downgrading its root cause; 030 guidance must be xai-scoped. Also: args buffer on partialToolCall, two terminal rows are expectedClose-conditional, the F2 causal claim is withdrawn, 020 needs a data-URL parser and a conversation-level byte budget. --- .../000_index.md | 35 ++++ .../001_toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md | 17 +- .../002_toolresult-encoding-decode.md | 13 +- .../003_transport-terminal-decode.md | 4 +- .../010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md | 150 +++++++------- ...020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md | 154 +++++++------- .../030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md | 191 ++++++++---------- 7 files changed, 309 insertions(+), 255 deletions(-) diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md index c4b7a50eed..714a630d03 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md @@ -56,3 +56,38 @@ decode that only confirms its own priors is not a decode. `gpt-5.6-luna` low for web discovery. - One decade doc per implementation phase; one phase per PABCD cycle. + +## Audit trail + +The first draft of this unit was submitted to an adversarial `gpt-5.6-sol` +reviewer instructed to falsify it. It returned **FAIL with ten findings**, all of +which were re-verified against source before being accepted. The unit was +corrected rather than defended: + +| # | Finding | Resolution | +|---|---------|------------| +| 1 | `001` put arg buffering on `toolCallDelta`; it happens on `partialToolCall` (`protobuf-events.ts:1254`) | table corrected | +| 2 | `003` presented two terminal rows as unconditional; both are `expectedClose`-conditional | table corrected | +| 3 | `010` claimed a typed error makes the turn retryable; `committed` is set on HTTP/2 `connect` (`live-transport.ts:780`) so `canRetry` can never be true | claim withdrawn, retry test removed | +| 4 | `010` wanted `finalizeTurnEvents` **and** `settleFail`, producing a double terminal | transport named sole terminal owner | +| 5 | `010` equated `state.terminated` with a real `turnEnded`; the synthetic client-tool finalize also sets it (`:386`, `:750`) | meaning corrected, test 4 added | +| 6 | `002` claimed image loss is the direct cause of resets; no live trace supports it | causal claim withdrawn | +| 7 | `020` planned to reuse the MCP base64 decoder; `OcxImageContent` carries a `data:` or remote URL (`types.ts:156`) | data-URL parser specified, remote URLs scoped out | +| 8 | `020`'s per-image cap cannot bound one `ConversationStep`, which is stored as a single blob | conversation-level byte budget, newest-first | +| 9 | `030` claimed Grok gets no apply_patch guidance; `parser.ts:189` already attaches per-property guidance | root cause downgraded to "lossy conversion, cause unproven" | +| 10 | `030`'s guidance would fire for every `openai-chat` provider and could demote a sibling edit tool | xai-scoped, suppressed when a sibling edit tool exists | + +Findings 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10 were load-bearing: acting on the original plan would +have produced a double-terminal bug, a test that could never pass, and a prompt +change leaking into unrelated providers. + +## Open follow-ups (deliberately not in this unit) + +- **Non-streaming reports a terminal-less turn as `completed`** (`bridge.ts:1829`). + Real, but fixing it needs evidence about whether Cursor ever legitimately ends + a stream without `turnEnded`; a wrong guess fails healthy turns. Not smuggled + into `010`. +- **User-message images are placeholdered** (`request-builder.ts:201`, + `protobuf-request.ts:314`) although `SelectedImage` supports blob/inline data. + Separate capability, separate unit. + diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/001_toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/001_toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md index 634a121383..92f1868324 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/001_toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/001_toolcall-lifecycle-decode.md @@ -1,19 +1,26 @@ # 001 — Tool-call lifecycle decode Source: `src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-events.ts`. Verified by direct read plus -an independent `gpt-5.6-sol` audit. +an independent `gpt-5.6-sol` audit, then corrected after an adversarial audit. ## The lifecycle -Cursor delivers a client tool call across three interaction updates, and the +Cursor delivers a client tool call across several interaction updates, and the adapter deliberately does **not** mirror them one-to-one downstream: | Cursor update | Adapter action | Emitted downstream | |---------------|----------------|--------------------| | `toolCallStarted` (`:1249`) | `recordToolCall` opens the call | **nothing** (deferred) | -| `toolCallDelta` (`:1265`) | `bufferToolArgs` keeps the longest cumulative args | nothing | +| `partialToolCall` (`:1254`) | `recordToolCall` if new, then `bufferToolArgs` on `argsTextDelta` | nothing | +| `toolCallDelta` (`:1265`) | **nothing** — returns `[]` | nothing | | `toolCallCompleted` (`:1269`) | `resolveCompletedArgs` + `commitToolCall` | `tool_call_start` -> `tool_call_delta` -> `tool_call_end` | +**Correction (adversarial audit).** An earlier draft put argument buffering on +`toolCallDelta`. That branch returns `[]` by design: Cursor's typed deltas cover +native exec internals (shell/task/edit), while client Responses tools return as +`McpToolCall` plus partial args text. Buffering happens on `partialToolCall`, +which the original table omitted entirely. + The deferral is intentional and correct: Cursor can open several calls in parallel or interleave their arg streams, while the Codex bridge tracks a single current call. Emitting each completed call as one atomic unit serializes them @@ -48,6 +55,6 @@ Every `error` `CursorServerMessage` is turn-fatal downstream: it maps to ## Verdict The lifecycle itself is sound. Two prior hypotheses were disproved here (see -`000`), and no change to this file is proposed for its own sake — `010` touches -it only to route the clean-EOF terminal into the existing finalizer. +`000`), and no change to this file is proposed for its own sake — `010` does not +modify it at all in the revised plan. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/002_toolresult-encoding-decode.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/002_toolresult-encoding-decode.md index a3d6b175be..e3fe39d0d4 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/002_toolresult-encoding-decode.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/002_toolresult-encoding-decode.md @@ -38,9 +38,16 @@ tools invoked through `CursorMcpManager`; it does not cover Codex placeholder is therefore not a wire limitation but an unfinished migration — the "phase 3" in its own text. -This is the direct mechanism behind the reported symptom: a model driving -Computer Use gets a blind result, cannot see what happened, and retries or -resets. +A model driving Computer Use therefore receives a blind result and cannot see +what its own action did. That is a real capability loss, proven by source +reading. + +**It is not proven to be the cause of the reported retries and session resets.** +No live trace ties those symptoms to this branch, and the external evidence in +`004` points at least partly elsewhere (the `node_repl` runtime). An adversarial +audit flagged the original causal claim as unsupported; it is withdrawn. The +defect stands on its own merits and does not need to explain every symptom to be +worth fixing. ## The three result paths in `conversationTurns` diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/003_transport-terminal-decode.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/003_transport-terminal-decode.md index 6a67ca5df8..a9ab5837c4 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/003_transport-terminal-decode.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/003_transport-terminal-decode.md @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ settle wins, later ones are ignored. | Connect end-stream frame with error or malformed payload | fatal (`:891`, `:900`) | | Successful `{}` trailer | **no settlement**; waits for HTTP/2 `end` (`:175`) | | Nonzero `grpc-status` trailer | fatal (`:970`) | -| HTTP/2 `end` with leftover frame bytes | fatal `ConnectFrameError` (`:1015`) | -| HTTP/2 `end` with zero frames | fatal unexpected EOF (`:1024`) | +| HTTP/2 `end` with leftover frame bytes | fatal `ConnectFrameError` **unless `expectedClose`** (`:1016`) | +| HTTP/2 `end` with zero frames | fatal unexpected EOF **unless `expectedClose`** (`:1024`) | | HTTP/2 `end` with >=1 complete frame | **unconditional graceful finish** (`:1029`) | | Socket/session error | fatal via `failAndClear` (`:824`, `:975`) | | Socket error after intentional client-tool suspension | graceful, `expectedClose` (`:806`) | diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md index 4d6f966ed6..ca6d01b9a7 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md @@ -1,92 +1,102 @@ -# 010 — Phase 1: gate the clean-EOF terminal +# 010 — Phase 1: fail an unlabeled EOF that truncates a tool call Answers **F1** (`003`). Severity High. One PABCD cycle. +**Revised after an adversarial audit returned FAIL** (findings 3, 4, 5); the +original plan is corrected below rather than defended. ## Problem restated `live-transport.ts:1029` settles gracefully whenever the HTTP/2 stream ends with -at least one complete frame, regardless of whether Cursor ever sent the -application-level `turnEnded`. The fail-closed open-tool-call check that already -exists (`protobuf-events.ts:1361`) is therefore skipped exactly when it is -needed, and non-streaming callers see `status: "completed"` on a truncated turn -(`bridge.ts:1829`). - -## Contract to establish - -A Cursor turn may only settle successfully when the application says it ended. -Concretely, at the `end` handler, after the existing leftover-bytes and -zero-frame checks: - -1. If `state.terminated` is true — a real `turnEnded` was processed — settle - gracefully. Unchanged behavior. -2. If `this.expectedClose` is true — we intentionally suspended the stream to run - a client tool — settle gracefully. Unchanged behavior; this path is how a - normal Responses-owned tool call works (`:737`, `:806`). -3. Otherwise the stream ended without application termination. Run the same - finalization the `turnEnded` path runs, so open calls produce the existing - explicit truncation error, and settle **fail** with a typed error. - -Point 3 is the whole change. It routes an unlabeled EOF into machinery that -already exists rather than inventing new reporting. - -## Why fail rather than emit `done` - -Emitting `done` would assert the model finished its turn, which is precisely the -claim we cannot support. A typed failure is also what makes the retry guard -reachable: today a clean EOF throws nothing, so `transport-retry.ts:97` returns -success without ever evaluating `canRetry`. With a thrown typed error, a turn -that emitted nothing downstream (`!emittedAny`) and is still uncommitted becomes -retryable — turning a dead turn into a transparent retry. The guard itself must -not be loosened; replay after partial emission would duplicate output. +at least one complete frame, without asking whether a terminal was ever emitted. +When a client tool call is still open, its buffered arguments are discarded and +nothing about the call reaches the bridge — the call simply never happened as far +as Codex can tell. -## Diff-level plan +## What `state.terminated` actually means (audit correction) -**`src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts`** +The original plan called it "a real `turnEnded` arrived". That is **wrong**. +`finalizeTurnEvents` sets it, and two paths call it: the real `turnEnded` update +(`protobuf-events.ts:1327`) and the synthetic client-tool finalize +(`finalizeAfterDrain`, `live-transport.ts:386`, armed at `:750`) that ends the +turn so the Responses bridge can own the client tool. -- In the `end` handler's drain-then-classify block, after the `framesReceived === 0` - branch, add the termination check before `settler.settleFinish()`: - - allow graceful finish when `this.expectedClose` or the event state reports - terminated; - - otherwise `releaseBacklogLease()`, then `settler.settleFail(...)` with a new - typed error carrying the frame count and any open tool-call ids. -- The event state is already reachable from the transport for finalization; if it - is not, thread the existing state reference rather than duplicating it. +That does not invalidate the check — it corrects its meaning. The predicate we +need is **"was a terminal already emitted downstream?"**, and `state.terminated` +is exactly that for both paths. The doc, not the code, was wrong. -**`src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts`** +## Single terminal owner (audit correction) + +The original plan wanted to call `finalizeTurnEvents` at EOF *and* `settleFail`. +That is incoherent: with no open call the finalizer returns `done` +(`protobuf-events.ts:1376`), so we would emit success and then fail the +transport; with an open call the adapter would emit its error and then the +`catch` at `cursor.ts:180` would emit a second one. + +**The transport owns this terminal.** At EOF the adapter does not call the +finalizer at all. It fails with one typed error that carries the open call ids, +and `cursor.ts:180` turns that into exactly one `error` event. `protobuf-events.ts` +is not modified by this phase. + +## Scope: the open-tool-call case only + +Two sub-cases exist at an unlabeled EOF: + +| Sub-case | Decision | +|----------|----------| +| Open tool call(s) at EOF | **Fail.** Arguments are provably lost; a turn that silently drops a tool call is the reported symptom. | +| No open call | **Leave as is** for now. Streaming already reports `response.incomplete` / `adapter_eof` (`bridge.ts:1283`). | -- Add a `CursorStreamTruncatedError` (name it to match existing conventions in - that file) so the failure is typed, not a bare `Error`. -- Classify it as **retryable** in `isRetryableCursorError` only for the - no-bytes-emitted case; the `!emittedAny` guard already enforces that, so the - classification stays simple. +The second row is deliberately out of scope. Non-streaming does default a +terminal-less turn to `"completed"` (`bridge.ts:1829`), which is wrong, but +fixing it requires evidence about whether Cursor ever legitimately ends a stream +without `turnEnded` — and getting that wrong would fail healthy turns. It is +recorded in `000_index.md` as an open follow-up, not smuggled into this phase. -**`src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-events.ts`** +## Retry: claim withdrawn (audit correction) -- No behavior change. `finalizeTurnEvents` is reused as-is; if it is not exported - in a form the transport can call at EOF, export a thin wrapper. +The original plan claimed a typed error would make the truncated turn retryable. +**False.** `this.committed = true` is set on the HTTP/2 `connect` event +(`live-transport.ts:780`), and any EOF that delivered a response frame is +necessarily post-connect, so `requestUncommitted(transport)` is already false and +`canRetry` cannot be true (`transport-retry.ts:99`). The commitment flag is +correct — bytes reached the server, so replay could duplicate a side effect. No +retry test belongs in this phase, and the guard stays untouched. + +## Diff-level plan + +**`src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts`** + +- Add `CursorStreamTruncatedError` following the file's existing error + conventions, carrying the open call ids and the frame count. +- Do **not** classify it retryable: commitment already forbids replay. + +**`src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts`** -**`src/bridge.ts`** — out of scope for this phase. Once the adapter throws, the -non-streaming `completed` default is no longer reachable via this path. A -defensive change there would be a separate unit with its own evidence. +- In the `end` handler's drain-then-classify block, before the final + `settler.settleFinish()`, add one branch: when `!this.expectedClose`, no + terminal has been emitted (`!state.terminated`), and the event state has open + tool calls, `releaseBacklogLease()` then `settler.settleFail(new + CursorStreamTruncatedError(...))`. +- Everything else in that block is unchanged, including both existing + `expectedClose` exemptions. -## Tests (`tests/cursor-live-transport.test.ts`, or a new `cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts`) +## Tests (`tests/cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts`) Each must fail before the change and pass after: -1. **EOF after frames without `turnEnded`, no open call** -> transport rejects - with the typed truncation error, not a graceful finish. -2. **EOF after frames with an open tool call** -> the emitted events include the - existing "incomplete tool call(s)" error naming the call id, and the run fails. -3. **EOF after a real `turnEnded`** -> still settles gracefully, still emits - `done`. Regression guard for the normal path. -4. **EOF during `expectedClose`** (client-tool suspension) -> still graceful. - This is the one that would break every working Computer Use turn if the gate - were written naively, so it is mandatory. -5. **Retry**: a truncated EOF with nothing emitted downstream is retried; one - with prior emission is not. +1. EOF after >=1 frame with an open tool call and no terminal -> run rejects with + `CursorStreamTruncatedError` naming the open call id. +2. EOF after a real `turnEnded` -> still graceful, still emits `done`. +3. EOF during `expectedClose` (client-tool suspension) with an open call -> still + graceful. This is the regression that would break every working Computer Use + turn, so it is mandatory. +4. EOF after the synthetic client-tool finalize (`state.terminated` set, no + `turnEnded`) -> still graceful. Directly guards audit finding 5. +5. EOF after >=1 frame with **no** open call -> unchanged graceful finish, + pinning the deliberate scope boundary above. ## Done when -All five tests pass, `bun run typecheck` is clean, and the cursor-focused suite -passes on `ssh lidge`. Evidence: exact command, output tail, pushed SHA. +All five pass, `bun run typecheck` clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, +pushed. Evidence: exact command, output tail, pushed SHA. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md index d2253f84cc..10470b24a7 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md @@ -1,88 +1,98 @@ # 020 — Phase 2: tool-result image passthrough -Answers **F2** (`002`). Severity High. One PABCD cycle. Depends on `010` only by -branch order, not by logic. +Answers **F2** (`002`). Severity High. One PABCD cycle. +**Revised after an adversarial audit returned FAIL** (findings 7, 8). ## Problem restated `contentToText` (`protobuf-request.ts:328`) replaces every image part of a tool result with `[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ...]`, and -`toolResultPart` (`:384`) always emits a single `text` item — even though -`McpToolResultContentItem` has an `image` case (`gen/agent_pb.ts:8476`) and -`native-exec-mcp.ts:115` already constructs `McpImageContent` correctly for the -MCP path. - -## Contract to establish - -A tool result carrying images reaches Cursor as real image content on the native -path, and as an honest, compact description everywhere else. - -1. **Native path** (`toolResultPart`): emit one `McpToolResultContentItem` per - part, preserving order — `text` items for text, `image` items carrying decoded - bytes and `mimeType` for images. -2. **External path** (`AssistantMessage` replay, lines 481-503): the wire has no - image slot, so keep a placeholder — but a truthful one that states an image - was produced and was not replayable, rather than "unsupported by phase 3". -3. **Decode**: reuse the existing base64 decoding helper from - `native-exec-mcp.ts` rather than writing a second one. A part that cannot be - decoded degrades to a placeholder; it never throws and never sends empty bytes. - -## Bounding (mandatory, from `002`) - -Real bytes make the blob and replay budgets load-bearing. This phase must: - -- cap per-image bytes and total images per result, well under the 16 MiB blob - admission limit (`native-exec.ts:81`), replacing anything over the cap with a - placeholder naming the size; -- keep images out of the external replay-root text budget entirely, so an image - can never consume the 512 KiB history allowance (`protobuf-request.ts:60`); -- prefer dropping the **oldest** images when several results carry them, since the - most recent screenshot is the one the model is reasoning about. - -## On the existing `wip/cursor-tool-result-text` draft - -The branch `wip/cursor-tool-result-text` adds `tool-result-text.ts` with a -Computer-Use-specific text compactor: it keeps ~80 "interesting" AX lines matched -by a regex, and swaps the image placeholder for a shorter one. - -**Judgment: reject the image half, reconsider the text half separately.** It -compacts the placeholder instead of sending the image, so it does not address F2 -at all. Its text compaction is heuristic — a hardcoded regex over accessibility -output and a tool-name pattern (`/node_repl/i`) — and it discards real result -content on a guess. Once images pass through properly, the pressure that -motivated it largely disappears. If AX text volume is still a problem afterwards, -it earns its own unit with measurements. Do not land it as part of this phase. +`toolResultPart` (`:384`) always emits a single `text` item — although +`McpToolResultContentItem` has an `image` case (`gen/agent_pb.ts:8476`) carrying +`data: Uint8Array` and `mimeType`. + +## The source format is a URL, not base64 (audit correction) + +The original plan proposed reusing the MCP decoder from `native-exec-mcp.ts:115`. +**Wrong contract.** That helper takes bare base64 plus a separate `mimeType`, +which is the MCP block shape. A Codex tool result carries `OcxImageContent` with +a single `imageUrl` field that is *either* a `data:` URL *or* a remote `https` +URL (`types.ts:156`). Reusing the MCP helper would mis-decode data URLs and +cannot represent a remote URL at all. + +This phase therefore needs a `data:` URL parser, not a base64 decoder: + +- parse the `data:;base64,` form, taking `mimeType` from the URL + itself rather than a sibling field; +- **remote `https` URLs are out of scope** — Cursor's `McpImageContent` takes + bytes, and fetching a remote image inside request construction would add + network IO to a pure encoding path. Remote URLs keep a placeholder that says so. +- validate strictly: `Buffer.from(x, "base64")` accepts many invalid strings + silently, so a malformed payload must be detected by validating the base64 + charset and decoded length before use, not by trusting the decoder to throw. +- check `src/adapters/image.ts` first (`:8`) — if a data-URL parser already + exists there, extend it instead of adding a second one. + +## Bounding must be conversation-level (audit correction) + +The original per-image cap was insufficient. `protobuf-request.ts:362` serializes +the whole `ConversationStep` — text, every image, and the envelope — into **one** +blob, and admission caps a single blob at 16 MiB (`native-exec.ts:91`). Several +in-budget images can therefore still overflow one step, and a per-message helper +cannot see across results to drop the oldest. + +The bound must be applied where the conversation is assembled, not inside the +per-message mapper: + +- a total decoded-image byte budget for the request, tracked in + `conversationTurns` as steps are built; +- newest-first allocation: walk results from most recent backwards, admitting + images while budget remains, so the screenshot the model is currently reasoning + about survives and older ones degrade to placeholders; +- a per-image ceiling as a cheap pre-filter, well under the step budget; +- images never enter the external replay-root text budget (`:60`, `:122`). + +## The three result paths + +Native-with-matching-call (lines 493-496) gains real image content. The external +replay path (481-490) and the unmatched-native path (498-503) keep a placeholder, +reworded to state that an image was produced and omitted, rather than the current +"unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3". + +## On the `wip/cursor-tool-result-text` draft + +Reject for this phase. It compacts the *placeholder* rather than sending the +image, so it does not address F2, and its text compaction is a hardcoded regex +over accessibility output that discards real content on a guess. If AX text +volume still hurts after images pass through, it earns its own unit with +measurements. ## Diff-level plan **`src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`** -- Add `toolResultContentItems(message)` returning `McpToolResultContentItem[]`: - map parts in order, text -> `McpTextContent`, image -> `McpImageContent` via the - shared decoder, applying the caps above. -- `toolResultPart` uses that array instead of the single hardcoded text item. -- Keep `contentToText` for the external/text paths, with the placeholder reworded - to state that an image was produced and omitted from replay. -- Preserve the existing `[tool_result]` envelope (`call_id`, `name`, `is_error`) - in `toolResultToText`; only the image rendering changes. - -**`src/adapters/cursor/native-exec-mcp.ts`** - -- Export the base64 -> bytes helper (or lift it to a shared module) so both call - sites decode identically. No behavior change on the MCP path. - -## Tests (`tests/cursor-request-builder.test.ts` or a new `cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts`) - -1. A tool result with one text and one image part produces two content items in - order, the second being case `image` with the exact decoded bytes and mime type. -2. A string-content tool result still produces exactly one text item (regression). -3. An oversized image is replaced by a placeholder naming its size, and no - oversized bytes reach the request. -4. An undecodable base64 payload degrades to a placeholder without throwing. -5. The external-model replay path emits no image bytes and keeps its text budget. +- Add `toolResultContentItems(message, budget)` returning + `McpToolResultContentItem[]`: map parts in order; text -> `McpTextContent`; + image -> `McpImageContent` when the data URL parses, validates, and fits the + remaining budget; otherwise a placeholder text item naming why. +- `toolResultPart` takes the budget and uses that array. +- `conversationTurns` owns the budget object and allocates newest-first. +- Keep `contentToText` for text-only paths with the reworded placeholder. +- Preserve the `[tool_result]` envelope (`call_id`, `name`, `is_error`). + +## Tests (`tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts`) + +1. A result with one text and one `data:` image part produces two items in order, + the second case `image` with exact decoded bytes and the mime from the URL. +2. A string-content result still produces exactly one text item (regression). +3. A remote `https` image URL produces a placeholder and no bytes. +4. A malformed base64 payload produces a placeholder and does not throw. +5. Images across several results are admitted newest-first until the budget is + exhausted; older ones become placeholders. +6. A single oversized image is rejected by the per-image ceiling. +7. The external replay path emits no image bytes and keeps its text budget. ## Done when -All five pass, typecheck clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed. -Evidence: exact command, output tail, pushed SHA. +All seven pass, typecheck clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md index e71b374af9..22206e846d 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md @@ -1,115 +1,100 @@ # 030 — Phase 3: `xai/grok-4.6` does not use `apply_patch` -Added mid-loop at the user's request (LOOP-UNIT-CHAIN-01). Verified by an -independent `gpt-5.6-sol` investigation. This is a **different provider** from -the rest of the unit — `xai`, not `cursor` — but the same underlying subject: -what a model is actually told it can call. +Added mid-loop at the user's request (LOOP-UNIT-CHAIN-01). +**Revised after an adversarial audit returned FAIL** (findings 9, 10). -## Root cause +## What is proven -Codex advertises `apply_patch` as a **freeform/custom** tool: `type: "custom"` -with a grammar, not a JSON-schema function. On the xai path that contract is -erased twice: +Codex advertises `apply_patch` as a **freeform/custom** tool (`type: "custom"` +with a grammar). On the xai path that form is lowered twice: -1. `src/responses/parser.ts:184` discards the custom tool's `format`/grammar and - substitutes `{input: string}` (`:189`). +1. `src/responses/parser.ts:184` replaces the grammar with `{input: string}`. 2. `src/adapters/openai-chat.ts:1183` serializes every internal tool — including `freeform: true` ones — as `type: "function"` (`:1194`). -xai resolves to the `openai-chat` adapter (`registry.ts:985`, -`adapters/registry.ts:57`) and always posts to `/chat/completions` -(`openai-chat-url.ts:7`); OAuth only swaps URL/headers -(`xai-transport.ts:101`, `:142`). So Grok sees an ordinary function and is -implicitly asked to (a) pick it, (b) author the entire Codex patch language -inside one JSON string, and (c) get `*** Begin Patch` exactly right — with no -guidance saying so. - -The tool is **not** dropped by schema normalization: `{input: string}` is a -concrete object and passes the filter (`openai-chat.ts:1141`, `:1193`). - -## The return path is already correct - -If Grok does call it, decoding works: the tool stays tagged `freeform: true` -(`parser.ts:196`), `buildToolBridgeMaps` records it -(`collaboration.ts:130`), the bridge recognizes the name (`bridge.ts:1023`), -unwraps `{input}` (`:220`), and emits a Responses `custom_tool_call` (`:621`). - -**So this is an affordance defect, not a codec defect.** Nothing downstream needs -fixing, which is why the existing conformance test passes while the real behavior -fails: `tests/adapter-tool-conformance.test.ts:358` fabricates a valid upstream -call and checks decoding. It proves round-trip, never that Grok chooses the tool. - -## Why Cursor does not have this problem - -Cursor detects a request-declared freeform `apply_patch` -(`cursor/tool-definitions.ts:241`), synthesizes model-native `edit_file` / -`multi_edit` tools (`:274`), advertises them as client-tool definitions -(`:667`), and injects system guidance preferring them (`:637`). Calls come back -as structured edits and are translated into a valid patch -(`protobuf-events.ts:1170`). The xai path has only a generic catalog nudge that -lists names without recommending anything (`openai-chat.ts:621`, -`tool-catalog-nudge.ts:59`). - -## xAI capability (checked, not assumed) - -As of 2026-08-17 xAI documents client tools as JSON-schema function calls and -requires a JSON object for `parameters`; it does not document OpenAI's -`type: "custom"` grammar form, and describes Chat Completions as function-calling -only. , - - -There is no `supportsCustomTools` capability flag in the registry -(`registry.ts:244`). `src/responses/custom-tool-compat.ts:59` converts custom to -function generically but explicitly exempts `apply_patch` (`:1`), and it belongs -to the `openai-responses` path, not this one. - -## Decision - -**Option 2 first (guidance), then reassess.** Rejected alternatives: - -- *Structured edit aliases for xai* (mirroring Cursor) is the most likely to work - but is a large new surface: two synthetic tools, a translation path, and - provenance gating so a legitimate MCP `edit_file` is never hijacked. That gate - exists in Cursor for a reason (#1036). It is the fallback if guidance measurably - fails, not the opening move. -- *Route xai through native Responses* is cleanest in principle but xAI does not - document support for grammar tools, and it risks OAuth transport, reasoning - replay, and continuation regressions. Requires a live capability probe first. - -Guidance is small, reversible, and directly addresses the proven gap: Grok is -never told that `apply_patch` is the edit tool or what its payload looks like. - -## Diff-level plan - -**`src/adapters/openai-chat.ts`** (or a small helper beside -`tool-catalog-nudge.ts`) - -- When the translated catalog contains a tool that was `freeform: true` and named - `apply_patch`, append a short, explicit system note: prefer `apply_patch` for - every file edit; pass the whole patch as the `input` string; the payload must - begin `*** Begin Patch` and end `*** End Patch`; include one `*** Update File:` - / `*** Add File:` header per file; do not wrap it in markdown fences. -- Gate strictly on provenance — the request declared a freeform `apply_patch` — - so a provider without that tool gets no note. Keep it additive to the existing - nudge rather than replacing it. -- Keep it byte-cheap; this rides on every request. +xai resolves to `openai-chat` (`registry.ts:985`) and always posts to +`/chat/completions` (`openai-chat-url.ts:7`); OAuth only swaps URL/headers +(`xai-transport.ts:101`, `:142`). The tool is **not** dropped — `{input: string}` +is a concrete schema and passes the filter (`openai-chat.ts:1141`, `:1193`). + +The **return path is already correct**: the tool stays `freeform: true` +(`parser.ts:196`), the bridge recognizes it (`bridge.ts:1023`), unwraps `{input}` +(`:220`), and emits a `custom_tool_call` (`:621`). Nothing downstream is broken. + +## What is NOT proven (audit correction) + +The original root cause said Grok is "never told" what `apply_patch` is. **False.** +`parser.ts:189` already attaches apply_patch-specific guidance to the `input` +property — "begin exactly with `*** Begin Patch` … then use its standard patch +envelope" — and `tests/responses-custom-tool-guidance.test.ts:15` covers it. + +So source reading proves a **lossy conversion**, not that the loss is why Grok +declines the tool. The honest statement of this phase: + +> The freeform contract is provably erased on the xai path. Whether that erasure +> is what makes grok-4.6 avoid `apply_patch` is **not established by reading the +> source**, because per-property guidance already exists. + +Competing explanations that this decode cannot rule out: Grok weighting an +alternative edit affordance, the model disliking a large opaque string parameter, +or prompt-level factors unrelated to the tool catalog. + +## Decision: treat as an experiment, not a fix + +Any change here is a hypothesis test that needs a **live xai call** to evaluate. +This loop's evidence rules forbid claiming success from a green fixture suite, so +this phase does not get to declare victory from unit tests. + +Options, re-ranked after the audit: + +1. **Structured edit aliases** (mirroring Cursor's `edit_file`/`multi_edit`, + `cursor/tool-definitions.ts:274`, translated at `protobuf-events.ts:1170`). + Matches xAI's documented JSON-schema function contract and removes the need + for Grok to author patch grammar. Largest surface: two synthetic tools, a + translation path, and provenance gating so a legitimate MCP `edit_file` is + never hijacked (#1036). +2. **Sharpened system guidance.** Small and reversible, but per-property guidance + already exists, so this is the *weaker* hypothesis — not the obvious first + move the original doc claimed. +3. **Native Responses routing.** Cleanest contract, but xAI documents client tools + as JSON-schema functions requiring an object `parameters`, and describes Chat + Completions as function-calling only + (). Needs a live + capability probe and risks OAuth transport and continuation regressions. + +**Chosen: (2) first, gated as described below, then measure.** It is the cheapest +probe of the affordance hypothesis. If a live run still shows Grok avoiding +`apply_patch`, escalate to (1) rather than iterating on wording. + +## Mandatory scoping (audit correction) + +The original plan would have fired for **every** `openai-chat` provider carrying a +freeform `apply_patch`, and "prefer it for every file edit" could override a +legitimate sibling edit tool. + +- Gate on the resolved provider being xai, not merely on the adapter being + `openai-chat`. No other provider's prompt changes. +- Suppress the note when the catalog already contains another edit-capable tool, + so guidance never demotes a tool the user deliberately supplied. +- Keep it additive to the existing catalog nudge (`openai-chat.ts:621`, + `tool-catalog-nudge.ts:59`) and byte-cheap; it rides every request. ## Tests (`tests/xai-apply-patch-guidance.test.ts`) -1. A request declaring freeform `apply_patch` produces the guidance note in the - outgoing system content, exactly once. -2. A request without `apply_patch` produces no note (no leakage to other setups). -3. The note does not displace or duplicate the existing catalog nudge. -4. The advertised tool is still a valid `type: "function"` with `{input: string}` - — guidance must not alter the wire schema. -5. A returned `apply_patch` function call still decodes to a Responses - `custom_tool_call` (regression over `bridge.ts:621`). - -## Honest limit - -Guidance changes the odds, not the contract. Verifying that Grok 4.6 actually -uses `apply_patch` needs a live xai call, which this loop's evidence rules do not -let me fake with a fixture. The tests above prove the note is delivered correctly; -the behavioral claim stays open until a live run, and `030` will say so rather -than declaring victory from a green suite. +1. xai + freeform `apply_patch` -> the note appears exactly once. +2. A non-xai `openai-chat` provider with the same catalog -> **no note** + (provider isolation; guards audit finding 10). +3. xai + a catalog containing a sibling edit tool -> **no note**. +4. xai without `apply_patch` -> no note. +5. The advertised tool remains `type: "function"` with `{input: string}` — + guidance must not alter the wire schema. +6. A returned `apply_patch` call still decodes to a `custom_tool_call` + (regression over `bridge.ts:621`). + +## Done when + +All six pass, typecheck clean, suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed — and the +report states plainly that the behavioral claim is **unverified pending a live +xai run**. Passing tests prove delivery and isolation, never that Grok changed +its mind. From 27204d578c93b440865f9eb3fada2146abb9ac13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:37:18 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 05/17] docs(devlog): absorb round-2 audit FAIL (7 findings) Round 2 confirmed the 001/003 corrections and found 010 coherent and regression-free, then failed the rest. Two round-1 corrections were themselves unimplementable: 030 xai-scoping has no identity seam at the adapter factory (now declared in-scope, with a same-base-URL isolation test), and 020 decoded-byte budgeting cannot bound a serialized ConversationStep (now measured after serialization, degrade and re-serialize, with a near-limit regression and a byte-identical no-image test). Also: the sibling-edit-tool gate is dropped as undefinable, the shared parseDataUrl is no longer tightened, xAI Responses support is restated correctly, F3 is downgraded to lossy-conversion-proven/cause-unproven, and the Connect vs gRPC-web citation is disambiguated. --- .../000_index.md | 29 +++- .../004_external-wire-evidence.md | 13 +- ...020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md | 140 ++++++++++-------- .../030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md | 130 +++++++++------- 4 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-) diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md index 714a630d03..7be10c7bcc 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md @@ -22,15 +22,16 @@ session resets. This unit stops guessing and reads the wire. ## Findings summary -Three defects are proven by source reading, each with its own implementation -phase. Two hypotheses were **disproved** and are recorded as such, because a +Two defects are proven by source reading; a third is a proven *lossy +conversion* whose behavioral consequence is explicitly unproven. Each gets its +own implementation phase. Two hypotheses were **disproved** and are recorded as such, because a decode that only confirms its own priors is not a decode. | # | Defect | Severity | Phase | |---|--------|----------|-------| | F1 | A clean HTTP/2 EOF after >=1 frame settles the transport as success without `turnEnded`, so `finalizeTurnEvents` never runs and an open tool call vanishes. Non-streaming reports the truncated turn as `completed`. | High | `010` | | F2 | Every image part of a tool result is replaced with placeholder text, even though the Cursor protobuf has a first-class `McpImageContent` case that the adapter already uses elsewhere. | High | `020` | -| F3 | `xai/grok-4.6` does not use `apply_patch`. | TBD (`030`) | `030` | +| F3 | On the `xai` path the freeform `apply_patch` contract is erased (`parser.ts:184`, `openai-chat.ts:1194`). The conversion is provably lossy; that this is *why* grok-4.6 avoids the tool is **not proven** — per-property guidance already exists (`parser.ts:189`). `030` is an experiment, not a fix. | lossy conversion proven; cause unproven | `030` | ### Disproved hypotheses @@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ corrected rather than defended: | 7 | `020` planned to reuse the MCP base64 decoder; `OcxImageContent` carries a `data:` or remote URL (`types.ts:156`) | data-URL parser specified, remote URLs scoped out | | 8 | `020`'s per-image cap cannot bound one `ConversationStep`, which is stored as a single blob | conversation-level byte budget, newest-first | | 9 | `030` claimed Grok gets no apply_patch guidance; `parser.ts:189` already attaches per-property guidance | root cause downgraded to "lossy conversion, cause unproven" | -| 10 | `030`'s guidance would fire for every `openai-chat` provider and could demote a sibling edit tool | xai-scoped, suppressed when a sibling edit tool exists | +| 10 | `030`'s guidance would fire for every `openai-chat` provider and could demote a sibling edit tool | xai-scoping attempted; round 2 finding 1 then showed the identity seam does not exist, and finding 3 showed the sibling predicate is undefinable — see the round 2 table | Findings 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10 were load-bearing: acting on the original plan would have produced a double-terminal bug, a test that could never pass, and a prompt @@ -91,3 +92,23 @@ change leaking into unrelated providers. `protobuf-request.ts:314`) although `SelectedImage` supports blob/inline data. Separate capability, separate unit. +### Round 2 + +The corrected unit was submitted to a second independent adversarial reviewer, +which confirmed the `001`/`003` corrections and found `010` coherent, +regression-free, and implementable — then returned **FAIL with seven further +findings** on the other documents: + +| # | Finding | Resolution | +|---|---------|------------| +| 1 | `030`'s xai-only gate is not implementable where it was placed: the adapter factory never receives a provider name (`adapters/registry.ts:15-17`, `server/adapter-resolve.ts:51-52`) | threading provider identity is now declared in-scope for `030`; its isolation test must use the **same base URL** so host sniffing cannot fake a pass | +| 2 | `020`'s decoded-byte budget still cannot bound a serialized `ConversationStep`, so a near-limit text result plus an image could newly fail | bounding moved **after** serialization: measure, degrade images, re-serialize; added a near-limit regression test and a byte-identical no-image test | +| 3 | "sibling edit-capable tool" has no decidable predicate (`types.ts:206-224`, `tool-catalog-nudge.ts:12-17`) | gate dropped; the note now describes call shape instead of claiming exclusivity, so no predicate is needed | +| 4 | `020` would tighten `parseDataUrl`, which Anthropic, Google, and Command Code share (`adapters/image.ts:8`) | a new strict helper is layered **on top of** the shared parser; the shared contract is untouched | +| 5 | `030` misstated xAI support: custom function calling is demonstrated via `/v1/responses`, and object-root schemas are still required | corrected; option 3 must also distinguish the API-key surface from the OAuth CLI proxy | +| 6 | `000` overstated F3 as proven and recorded xai isolation as resolved | F3 downgraded above; the round-1 row now points at findings 1 and 3 | +| 7 | `004` conflates Connect end-stream framing with gRPC-web trailers | terminology corrected in `004`; the sources are kept as protocol-principle context, not as claims about this transport | + +Round 2 mattered most where it was least comfortable: findings 1 and 2 each +showed a *correction* from round 1 was itself unimplementable. That is the +argument for auditing revisions rather than only first drafts. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/004_external-wire-evidence.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/004_external-wire-evidence.md index b74cb034ae..5e78e91c58 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/004_external-wire-evidence.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/004_external-wire-evidence.md @@ -41,11 +41,16 @@ Relevant to long-lived Cursor streams; not itself proven to be our defect. ## Context only -- gRPC/Connect require status trailers for normal completion; a body without the - encoded trailer must not be treated as authoritative success. +- **Protocol principle, adjacent transport.** In gRPC over HTTP/2, status + trailers are required for normal completion, and Connect's gRPC-web transport + fails loudly when the encoded trailer is missing. (primary), - (primary). This is the - protocol-level statement of exactly what F1 gets wrong. + (primary). + **Terminology caution:** this adapter speaks Connect framing with an encoded + end-stream envelope (`live-transport.ts:787-900`), not gRPC-web trailers, so + these sources supply the general principle — a body without its terminal is not + authoritative success — and not a statement about our exact wire. F1 rests on + source reading (`003`), not on these citations. - xAI documents Grok 4.6 tool calling over streaming and synchronous modes. (primary). No official changelog naming grok-4.6 as dropping tool calls was found. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md index 10470b24a7..1a742c0672 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ # 020 — Phase 2: tool-result image passthrough Answers **F2** (`002`). Severity High. One PABCD cycle. -**Revised after an adversarial audit returned FAIL** (findings 7, 8). +**Revised twice after adversarial audits** (round 1 findings 7-8, round 2 +findings 2 and 4). ## Problem restated @@ -11,88 +12,105 @@ result with `[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ...]`, and `McpToolResultContentItem` has an `image` case (`gen/agent_pb.ts:8476`) carrying `data: Uint8Array` and `mimeType`. -## The source format is a URL, not base64 (audit correction) - -The original plan proposed reusing the MCP decoder from `native-exec-mcp.ts:115`. -**Wrong contract.** That helper takes bare base64 plus a separate `mimeType`, -which is the MCP block shape. A Codex tool result carries `OcxImageContent` with -a single `imageUrl` field that is *either* a `data:` URL *or* a remote `https` -URL (`types.ts:156`). Reusing the MCP helper would mis-decode data URLs and -cannot represent a remote URL at all. - -This phase therefore needs a `data:` URL parser, not a base64 decoder: - -- parse the `data:;base64,` form, taking `mimeType` from the URL - itself rather than a sibling field; -- **remote `https` URLs are out of scope** — Cursor's `McpImageContent` takes - bytes, and fetching a remote image inside request construction would add - network IO to a pure encoding path. Remote URLs keep a placeholder that says so. -- validate strictly: `Buffer.from(x, "base64")` accepts many invalid strings - silently, so a malformed payload must be detected by validating the base64 - charset and decoded length before use, not by trusting the decoder to throw. -- check `src/adapters/image.ts` first (`:8`) — if a data-URL parser already - exists there, extend it instead of adding a second one. - -## Bounding must be conversation-level (audit correction) - -The original per-image cap was insufficient. `protobuf-request.ts:362` serializes -the whole `ConversationStep` — text, every image, and the envelope — into **one** -blob, and admission caps a single blob at 16 MiB (`native-exec.ts:91`). Several -in-budget images can therefore still overflow one step, and a per-message helper -cannot see across results to drop the oldest. - -The bound must be applied where the conversation is assembled, not inside the -per-message mapper: - -- a total decoded-image byte budget for the request, tracked in - `conversationTurns` as steps are built; -- newest-first allocation: walk results from most recent backwards, admitting - images while budget remains, so the screenshot the model is currently reasoning - about survives and older ones degrade to placeholders; -- a per-image ceiling as a cheap pre-filter, well under the step budget; -- images never enter the external replay-root text budget (`:60`, `:122`). +## The source format is a URL, not base64 (round 1, finding 7) + +`OcxImageContent` carries a single `imageUrl` that is either a `data:` URL or a +remote `https` URL (`types.ts:156`). The MCP helper in `native-exec-mcp.ts:115` +takes bare base64 plus a separate mime and is the wrong contract here. + +## Do not tighten the shared parser (round 2, finding 4) + +`src/adapters/image.ts:8` already provides `parseDataUrl`, **shared by the +Anthropic, Google, and Command Code adapters**. Tightening its return contract to +get strict validation would silently change those adapters while this phase's +tests only cover Cursor. + +Therefore: add a **new strict helper built on top of `parseDataUrl`**, local to +this concern. It calls the shared parser, then validates the base64 charset and +decoded length itself — `Buffer.from(x, "base64")` accepts many invalid strings +without throwing. The shared parser is not modified. + +Remote `https` URLs stay **out of scope**: `McpImageContent` needs bytes, and +fetching inside request construction would add network IO to a pure encoding +path. They keep a placeholder that says so. + +## Bounding must be serialization-aware (round 1 finding 8, round 2 finding 2) + +Round 1 established that a per-image cap is insufficient, because +`protobuf-request.ts:362` serializes an entire `ConversationStep` — text, every +image, and the envelope — into **one** blob capped at +`BLOB_MAX_ENTRY_BYTES` (`native-exec.ts:89`). + +Round 2 showed the conversation-level *decoded-byte* budget still does not fix +it: a step also carries existing arguments, text, mime strings, and protobuf +framing (`:354-381`). A previously valid near-limit text result plus an admitted +image can push a step over the entry limit and fail a request that used to work. +**A budget over decoded image bytes cannot bound a serialized protobuf step.** + +The bound must therefore be checked **after serialization**, not predicted before +it: + +- keep the newest-first conversation-level image budget as a cheap pre-filter, + so old screenshots degrade before new ones and most steps never approach the + limit; +- after building a step, measure its serialized size; if it exceeds the entry + limit minus a headroom margin, degrade that step's images to placeholders + (newest retained last) and re-serialize; +- a step that still does not fit after dropping every image is a pre-existing + text-only condition and is left to the existing admission path — this phase must + not change behavior for requests that carry no images. + +That last clause is the real acceptance boundary: **no request that works today +may start failing because of this phase.** ## The three result paths Native-with-matching-call (lines 493-496) gains real image content. The external replay path (481-490) and the unmatched-native path (498-503) keep a placeholder, -reworded to state that an image was produced and omitted, rather than the current -"unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3". +reworded to state that an image was produced and omitted. ## On the `wip/cursor-tool-result-text` draft Reject for this phase. It compacts the *placeholder* rather than sending the -image, so it does not address F2, and its text compaction is a hardcoded regex -over accessibility output that discards real content on a guess. If AX text -volume still hurts after images pass through, it earns its own unit with -measurements. +image, and its text compaction is a hardcoded regex over accessibility output +that discards real content on a guess. If AX volume still hurts afterwards, it +earns its own unit with measurements. ## Diff-level plan +**new strict decode helper** (beside `protobuf-request.ts`, or in the cursor +adapter directory) + +- `decodeInlineImage(imageUrl): { bytes: Uint8Array; mimeType: string } | undefined`, + implemented over `parseDataUrl` with explicit charset/length validation. + Returns `undefined` for remote URLs and malformed payloads; never throws. + **`src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`** -- Add `toolResultContentItems(message, budget)` returning - `McpToolResultContentItem[]`: map parts in order; text -> `McpTextContent`; - image -> `McpImageContent` when the data URL parses, validates, and fits the - remaining budget; otherwise a placeholder text item naming why. +- `toolResultContentItems(message, budget)` -> `McpToolResultContentItem[]`: + parts in order; text -> `McpTextContent`; image -> `McpImageContent` when it + decodes and fits; otherwise a placeholder text item naming why. - `toolResultPart` takes the budget and uses that array. -- `conversationTurns` owns the budget object and allocates newest-first. -- Keep `contentToText` for text-only paths with the reworded placeholder. -- Preserve the `[tool_result]` envelope (`call_id`, `name`, `is_error`). +- `conversationTurns` owns the budget, allocates newest-first, and performs the + post-serialization size check and degrade-and-retry described above. ## Tests (`tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts`) -1. A result with one text and one `data:` image part produces two items in order, - the second case `image` with exact decoded bytes and the mime from the URL. -2. A string-content result still produces exactly one text item (regression). -3. A remote `https` image URL produces a placeholder and no bytes. -4. A malformed base64 payload produces a placeholder and does not throw. +1. One text + one `data:` image part -> two items in order, the second case + `image` with exact decoded bytes and the mime from the URL. +2. String-content result -> exactly one text item (regression). +3. Remote `https` image URL -> placeholder, no bytes. +4. Malformed base64 -> placeholder, no throw. 5. Images across several results are admitted newest-first until the budget is exhausted; older ones become placeholders. 6. A single oversized image is rejected by the per-image ceiling. -7. The external replay path emits no image bytes and keeps its text budget. +7. **Near-limit text plus an image**: the step is degraded to fit and the request + still succeeds — the regression guard for round 2 finding 2. +8. A request carrying **no** images serializes byte-identically to the pre-change + behavior. +9. The external replay path emits no image bytes and keeps its text budget. ## Done when -All seven pass, typecheck clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed. +All nine pass, typecheck clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md index 22206e846d..ffa9d58cf9 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ # 030 — Phase 3: `xai/grok-4.6` does not use `apply_patch` Added mid-loop at the user's request (LOOP-UNIT-CHAIN-01). -**Revised after an adversarial audit returned FAIL** (findings 9, 10). +**Revised twice after adversarial audits** (round 1 findings 9-10, round 2 +findings 1, 3, 5, 6). ## What is proven @@ -12,84 +13,101 @@ with a grammar). On the xai path that form is lowered twice: 2. `src/adapters/openai-chat.ts:1183` serializes every internal tool — including `freeform: true` ones — as `type: "function"` (`:1194`). -xai resolves to `openai-chat` (`registry.ts:985`) and always posts to +xai resolves to `openai-chat` (`registry.ts:985`) and posts to `/chat/completions` (`openai-chat-url.ts:7`); OAuth only swaps URL/headers -(`xai-transport.ts:101`, `:142`). The tool is **not** dropped — `{input: string}` -is a concrete schema and passes the filter (`openai-chat.ts:1141`, `:1193`). +(`xai-transport.ts:101`, `:142`). The tool is **not** dropped — +`{input: string}` is a concrete schema and passes the filter (`:1141`, `:1193`). The **return path is already correct**: the tool stays `freeform: true` (`parser.ts:196`), the bridge recognizes it (`bridge.ts:1023`), unwraps `{input}` -(`:220`), and emits a `custom_tool_call` (`:621`). Nothing downstream is broken. +(`:220`), and emits a `custom_tool_call` (`:621`). -## What is NOT proven (audit correction) +**Proven claim: a lossy conversion. Nothing more.** + +## What is NOT proven (round 1, finding 9) -The original root cause said Grok is "never told" what `apply_patch` is. **False.** `parser.ts:189` already attaches apply_patch-specific guidance to the `input` property — "begin exactly with `*** Begin Patch` … then use its standard patch -envelope" — and `tests/responses-custom-tool-guidance.test.ts:15` covers it. +envelope" — covered by `tests/responses-custom-tool-guidance.test.ts:15`. + +So the claim that Grok is "never told" what `apply_patch` is was **false**, and +whether the grammar erasure is why Grok declines the tool is **not established by +reading source**. Competing explanations this decode cannot rule out: Grok +weighting an alternative edit affordance, dislike of a large opaque string +parameter, or prompt-level factors unrelated to the catalog. + +## The scoping seam does not exist yet (round 2, finding 1) + +The previous revision required gating on "the resolved provider being xai". That +is **not implementable where the plan put it**: `createOpenAIChatAdapter()` +receives only `OcxProviderConfig`, the adapter factory context carries no +provider name (`adapters/registry.ts:15-17,57-60`), and `resolveAdapter()` drops +`route.providerName` (`server/adapter-resolve.ts:51-52`, +`server/responses/core.ts:2142`). Host-based detection would misclassify custom +providers, and a provider-isolation test could pass merely by using a different +base URL — a test that proves nothing. + +**Consequence: this phase now includes threading provider identity through +adapter construction**, as an explicit, reviewable scope expansion rather than a +hidden assumption. If that seam turns out to be more invasive than the experiment +justifies, the honest move is to defer the phase, not to fake the gate with a +host regex. + +## The sibling-tool predicate is under-specified (round 2, finding 3) + +"Suppress when another edit-capable tool exists" has no definition. `OcxTool` +carries no edit-capability provenance (`types.ts:206-224`), name matching misses +arbitrary MCP edit tools, and description matching would suppress the experiment +whenever ordinary code-mode `exec` is present (`tool-catalog-nudge.ts:12-17`). -So source reading proves a **lossy conversion**, not that the loss is why Grok -declines the tool. The honest statement of this phase: +**Resolution: drop the sibling-tool gate.** Replace it with a narrower, decidable +rule — the note is phrased to describe how to *call* `apply_patch` when it is +used, not to command that it be preferred over every other tool. Guidance that +does not claim exclusivity cannot demote a sibling tool, which removes the need +for a predicate nobody can define. -> The freeform contract is provably erased on the xai path. Whether that erasure -> is what makes grok-4.6 avoid `apply_patch` is **not established by reading the -> source**, because per-property guidance already exists. +## xAI capability, corrected (round 2, finding 5) -Competing explanations that this decode cannot rule out: Grok weighting an -alternative edit affordance, the model disliking a large opaque string parameter, -or prompt-level factors unrelated to the tool catalog. +The earlier statement that xAI describes Chat Completions as "function-calling +only" was too strong. Current xAI documentation demonstrates custom function +calling through `/v1/responses`, while still requiring object-root JSON-schema +function tools — so native Responses would **not** preserve Codex's freeform +grammar automatically; lowering remains necessary either way. + -## Decision: treat as an experiment, not a fix +Any option-3 evaluation must also distinguish public API-key Responses support +from the OAuth CLI proxy (`xai-transport.ts:101`), which are different surfaces. -Any change here is a hypothesis test that needs a **live xai call** to evaluate. -This loop's evidence rules forbid claiming success from a green fixture suite, so -this phase does not get to declare victory from unit tests. +## Decision -Options, re-ranked after the audit: +Options, ranked after two audits: 1. **Structured edit aliases** (mirroring Cursor's `edit_file`/`multi_edit`, `cursor/tool-definitions.ts:274`, translated at `protobuf-events.ts:1170`). - Matches xAI's documented JSON-schema function contract and removes the need - for Grok to author patch grammar. Largest surface: two synthetic tools, a - translation path, and provenance gating so a legitimate MCP `edit_file` is - never hijacked (#1036). -2. **Sharpened system guidance.** Small and reversible, but per-property guidance - already exists, so this is the *weaker* hypothesis — not the obvious first - move the original doc claimed. -3. **Native Responses routing.** Cleanest contract, but xAI documents client tools - as JSON-schema functions requiring an object `parameters`, and describes Chat - Completions as function-calling only - (). Needs a live - capability probe and risks OAuth transport and continuation regressions. - -**Chosen: (2) first, gated as described below, then measure.** It is the cheapest -probe of the affordance hypothesis. If a live run still shows Grok avoiding -`apply_patch`, escalate to (1) rather than iterating on wording. - -## Mandatory scoping (audit correction) - -The original plan would have fired for **every** `openai-chat` provider carrying a -freeform `apply_patch`, and "prefer it for every file edit" could override a -legitimate sibling edit tool. - -- Gate on the resolved provider being xai, not merely on the adapter being - `openai-chat`. No other provider's prompt changes. -- Suppress the note when the catalog already contains another edit-capable tool, - so guidance never demotes a tool the user deliberately supplied. -- Keep it additive to the existing catalog nudge (`openai-chat.ts:621`, - `tool-catalog-nudge.ts:59`) and byte-cheap; it rides every request. + Matches xAI's documented JSON-schema contract; largest surface, needs + provenance gating so a legitimate MCP `edit_file` is never hijacked (#1036). +2. **Sharpened call-shape guidance**, xai-scoped via the new identity seam. + Cheapest probe, but per-property guidance already exists, so it is the weaker + hypothesis. +3. **Native Responses routing.** Needs a live capability probe on both xai + surfaces; risks OAuth transport and continuation regressions. + +**Chosen: (2), explicitly as an experiment**, with the identity seam as declared +scope. If a live run still shows Grok avoiding `apply_patch`, escalate to (1) +rather than iterating on wording. ## Tests (`tests/xai-apply-patch-guidance.test.ts`) 1. xai + freeform `apply_patch` -> the note appears exactly once. -2. A non-xai `openai-chat` provider with the same catalog -> **no note** - (provider isolation; guards audit finding 10). -3. xai + a catalog containing a sibling edit tool -> **no note**. -4. xai without `apply_patch` -> no note. -5. The advertised tool remains `type: "function"` with `{input: string}` — +2. A non-xai `openai-chat` provider **with the same base URL** -> no note. + Same-URL is mandatory: it is what proves identity gating rather than host + sniffing (round 2 finding 1). +3. xai without `apply_patch` -> no note. +4. The advertised tool remains `type: "function"` with `{input: string}` — guidance must not alter the wire schema. -6. A returned `apply_patch` call still decodes to a `custom_tool_call` +5. A returned `apply_patch` call still decodes to a `custom_tool_call` (regression over `bridge.ts:621`). +6. The provider-identity seam itself: a route's provider name reaches the adapter. ## Done when From 53fe3a639f650675745c9eb7c8ee62bc1ffdc97a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:43:14 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 06/17] docs(devlog): absorb round-3 audit FAIL (5 findings) All five refine round-2 corrections: 020 must take the effective blob limit from the admission authority rather than copying 16 MiB, and its byte-identical test must freeze randomUUID; 030 identity must be mandatory at the route-resolver boundary so it survives the eight adapter-reconstruction sites, its isolation test must vary only identity on an identical OcxProviderConfig, the sibling-demotion claim is downgraded to an accepted live-test-dependent risk with a specified conditional wording shape, and the xAI paragraph is restated as a claim about the documented contract. --- .../000_index.md | 21 +++++++++ ...020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md | 12 ++++- .../030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md | 46 ++++++++++++++----- 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md index 7be10c7bcc..99ad3cbfe6 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md @@ -112,3 +112,24 @@ findings** on the other documents: Round 2 mattered most where it was least comfortable: findings 1 and 2 each showed a *correction* from round 1 was itself unimplementable. That is the argument for auditing revisions rather than only first drafts. + +### Round 3 + +A third reviewer confirmed that F3 is now stated honestly and that `004`'s +Connect/gRPC-web disambiguation is correct, then returned **FAIL with five +findings** — every one a refinement of a round-2 correction: + +| # | Finding | Resolution | +|---|---------|------------| +| 1 | `020` never wires its degrade loop to the real limit authority; `BLOB_MAX_ENTRY_BYTES` is private and test-overridable (`native-exec.ts:91`, `:122-126`) | the effective limit is exported and passed, so the degrade loop and admission cannot drift | +| 2 | `030`'s identity seam covered one construction site; adapters are rebuilt on retry/rotation (`core.ts:584` and seven more) | identity is mandatory at the route-resolver boundary; a reconstruction test is added | +| 3 | Same-base-URL isolation does not prove identity gating; auth mode or headers could discriminate | the isolation test now uses an identical `OcxProviderConfig`, varying only identity | +| 4 | "cannot demote a sibling tool" is an unsupported behavioral claim | wording shape specified (conditional, never "prefer"); residual risk recorded as live-test-dependent, not disproved | +| 5 | The xAI paragraph was still too absolute | restated as a claim about the *documented contract*; object root or `anyOf`/`oneOf` branches are permitted | + +Also folded: test 8's byte-identical comparison must freeze `crypto.randomUUID()` +(`protobuf-request.ts:509`, `:592`) or compare deterministic nested step bytes. + +The finding count fell 10 -> 7 -> 5 and the severity fell with it: round 3 found +no unimplementable design, only under-specified ones. `010` has now been judged +coherent, regression-free, and implementable by two independent reviewers. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md index 1a742c0672..d7c3b55b94 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/020_phase2-toolresult-image-passthrough.md @@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ it: text-only condition and is left to the existing admission path — this phase must not change behavior for requests that carry no images. +**The limit must come from the admission authority, not a copy.** +`BLOB_MAX_ENTRY_BYTES` is private and test-overridable (`native-exec.ts:91`, `:122-126`). +Hardcoding 16 MiB here would drift from admission the moment either side changes, +and would let test 7 pass against a number the real store no longer uses. Export +the effective limit (or a shared admission-threshold accessor) and pass it in, so +the degrade loop and the admission check always agree — including when a test +overrides it. + That last clause is the real acceptance boundary: **no request that works today may start failing because of this phase.** @@ -107,7 +115,9 @@ adapter directory) 7. **Near-limit text plus an image**: the step is degraded to fit and the request still succeeds — the regression guard for round 2 finding 2. 8. A request carrying **no** images serializes byte-identically to the pre-change - behavior. + behavior. Requires determinism: `crypto.randomUUID()` is called during + request construction (`protobuf-request.ts:509`, `:592`), so either + freeze it or compare deterministic nested step bytes against a pre-change fixture. 9. The external replay path emits no image bytes and keeps its text budget. ## Done when diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md index ffa9d58cf9..685d1f5aa1 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md @@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ hidden assumption. If that seam turns out to be more invasive than the experimen justifies, the honest move is to defer the phase, not to fake the gate with a host regex. +**The seam must cover every reconstruction, not just the first build.** Adapters +are rebuilt on retry and rotation paths (`server/responses/core.ts:584` and seven +further sites through `:4135`), so identity has to be mandatory at the +route-resolver boundary rather than passed at one call site. Otherwise the +guidance silently disappears after a failover — the worst kind of bug, since it +only manifests on the retry path the user never sees. + ## The sibling-tool predicate is under-specified (round 2, finding 3) "Suppress when another edit-capable tool exists" has no definition. `OcxTool` @@ -61,18 +68,30 @@ arbitrary MCP edit tools, and description matching would suppress the experiment whenever ordinary code-mode `exec` is present (`tool-catalog-nudge.ts:12-17`). **Resolution: drop the sibling-tool gate.** Replace it with a narrower, decidable -rule — the note is phrased to describe how to *call* `apply_patch` when it is -used, not to command that it be preferred over every other tool. Guidance that -does not claim exclusivity cannot demote a sibling tool, which removes the need -for a predicate nobody can define. +rule — the note describes how to *call* `apply_patch` when it is used, and never +asserts it should be preferred over another tool. Required wording shape: +conditional, not imperative — "when using `apply_patch`, pass the entire patch +as the `input` string, beginning `*** Begin Patch` …" — with no "prefer", +"always", or "for every file edit". + +**This reduces demotion risk; it does not eliminate it.** Any added system-level +emphasis can shift relative tool selection even without exclusivity language, and +no unit test can measure that. Residual sibling-selection risk is therefore +live-test-dependent and is recorded as an accepted risk of running the +experiment, not as something the tests below disprove. ## xAI capability, corrected (round 2, finding 5) The earlier statement that xAI describes Chat Completions as "function-calling -only" was too strong. Current xAI documentation demonstrates custom function -calling through `/v1/responses`, while still requiring object-root JSON-schema -function tools — so native Responses would **not** preserve Codex's freeform -grammar automatically; lowering remains necessary either way. +only" was too strong. Current xAI documentation demonstrates function calling +through `/v1/responses` and accepts an object root or `anyOf`/`oneOf` whose +branches are objects. What it documents are **Responses function tools**, not +Codex-style freeform `type: "custom"` grammar tools. + +Stated precisely: **the documented contract does not preserve freeform grammar**, +so lowering to `{input: string}` would still be required on that route. That is +a statement about the documentation, not a proof that the endpoint would reject a +grammar tool — only the planned live probe can settle that. Any option-3 evaluation must also distinguish public API-key Responses support @@ -99,19 +118,22 @@ rather than iterating on wording. ## Tests (`tests/xai-apply-patch-guidance.test.ts`) 1. xai + freeform `apply_patch` -> the note appears exactly once. -2. A non-xai `openai-chat` provider **with the same base URL** -> no note. - Same-URL is mandatory: it is what proves identity gating rather than host - sniffing (round 2 finding 1). +2. A non-xai `openai-chat` provider using an **identical `OcxProviderConfig` + object** -> no note. Only the separately threaded provider identity may vary. + Same-URL alone is insufficient: auth mode, headers, or the fetch wrapper could + otherwise be doing the discriminating (round 3 finding 3). 3. xai without `apply_patch` -> no note. 4. The advertised tool remains `type: "function"` with `{input: string}` — guidance must not alter the wire schema. 5. A returned `apply_patch` call still decodes to a `custom_tool_call` (regression over `bridge.ts:621`). 6. The provider-identity seam itself: a route's provider name reaches the adapter. +7. **Reconstruction**: an adapter rebuilt on a retry/rotation path still carries + provider identity, so the note survives a failover (round 3 finding 2). ## Done when -All six pass, typecheck clean, suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed — and the +All seven pass, typecheck clean, suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed — and the report states plainly that the behavioral claim is **unverified pending a live xai run**. Passing tests prove delivery and isolation, never that Grok changed its mind. From 85722a2bacd463a6187fabbf37d3c55485b9632c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:45:49 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 07/17] docs(devlog): record a live grok-4.6 apply_patch probe that fails to reproduce F3 Both xai/grok-4.6 and cursor/grok-4.6 subagents edited the probe file and reported apply_patch. The cursor agent named code mode (tools.apply_patch inside exec), which is not the top-level freeform surface 030 theorises about, and self-reported tool names are not wire evidence. 030 now leads with a measurement cycle: capture the wire, probe with code mode disabled, probe a larger patch, and ask the user for the failing case. NOOP with evidence is an acceptable outcome. --- .../000_index.md | 2 +- .../030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md | 52 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md index 99ad3cbfe6..6d0b9dc6a2 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ decode that only confirms its own priors is not a decode. |---|--------|----------|-------| | F1 | A clean HTTP/2 EOF after >=1 frame settles the transport as success without `turnEnded`, so `finalizeTurnEvents` never runs and an open tool call vanishes. Non-streaming reports the truncated turn as `completed`. | High | `010` | | F2 | Every image part of a tool result is replaced with placeholder text, even though the Cursor protobuf has a first-class `McpImageContent` case that the adapter already uses elsewhere. | High | `020` | -| F3 | On the `xai` path the freeform `apply_patch` contract is erased (`parser.ts:184`, `openai-chat.ts:1194`). The conversion is provably lossy; that this is *why* grok-4.6 avoids the tool is **not proven** — per-property guidance already exists (`parser.ts:189`). `030` is an experiment, not a fix. | lossy conversion proven; cause unproven | `030` | +| F3 | On the `xai` path the freeform `apply_patch` contract is erased (`parser.ts:184`, `openai-chat.ts:1194`). The conversion is provably lossy; that this is *why* grok-4.6 avoids the tool is **not proven** — per-property guidance already exists (`parser.ts:189`). `030` is an experiment, not a fix. | lossy conversion proven; **symptom did not reproduce** in a live probe — see 030 | `030` | ### Disproved hypotheses diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md index 685d1f5aa1..6d9d7f1301 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md @@ -97,6 +97,58 @@ grammar tool — only the planned live probe can settle that. Any option-3 evaluation must also distinguish public API-key Responses support from the OAuth CLI proxy (`xai-transport.ts:101`), which are different surfaces. +## Live probe (2026-08-17) — the premise is now in doubt + +The user pointed out that `xai/grok-4.6` and `cursor/grok-4.6` are both +spawnable as subagents, which turns this phase's central question from +unprovable into testable. A baseline probe was run before writing any code. + +**Setup.** Two identical scratch directories, each with one `greet.js`. One +subagent per provider, same prompt: change the greeting string, then report +which tool performed the edit. + +**Result: both succeeded.** + +| Provider | Edit applied | Tool reported | +|----------|--------------|---------------| +| `xai/grok-4.6` | yes, verified by reading the file back | `apply_patch` | +| `cursor/grok-4.6` | yes, verified by reading the file back | `apply_patch`, explicitly "called from `exec` via `tools.apply_patch`" | + +**What this does and does not establish.** + +- It does **not** confirm the reported symptom. On this task `xai/grok-4.6` edited + the file successfully and named `apply_patch` as the tool. +- It does **not** exercise the surface this phase is about. The cursor agent + stated it reached `apply_patch` through **code mode** — `tools.apply_patch` nested + inside `exec` — which is a different path from the top-level freeform tool + whose grammar `parser.ts:184` erases. Code mode is exactly the case + `tool-catalog-nudge.ts:12-17` describes. The xai agent's bare "`apply_patch`" + is ambiguous between the two paths. +- Self-reported tool names are **not wire evidence**. A model naming a tool is a + claim about its own behavior, not a record of what was sent. The routing + history DB (`~/.opencodex/routing-history.sqlite`) stopped recording at 16:00 + local, well before the probe, so the actual request bodies were not captured. + +**Consequence for this phase.** The premise — that `xai/grok-4.6` does not use +`apply_patch` — is not reproduced by the first probe that tried. Implementing a +guidance change now would be fixing a defect that has not been demonstrated, +and the identity seam it requires is a real cost (round 3 finding 2). + +**Revised first step: reproduce before repairing.** The next cycle of this phase +is a measurement cycle, not an implementation cycle: + +1. Capture the wire. Re-enable request-history recording (or a scoped capture) + so the outgoing tool catalog and the returned call are observed, not reported. +2. Probe with code mode **disabled**, so the top-level freeform `apply_patch` is + the only edit affordance. That is the surface this phase theorises about. +3. Probe a multi-file / larger patch, where authoring the full envelope inside a + JSON string is materially harder than a one-line replacement. +4. Ask the user for the failing case they actually saw, since their report is + the only evidence the symptom exists at all. + +If the symptom does not reproduce under (2) and (3), the honest outcome for this +phase is **NOOP with evidence**, not a speculative prompt change. The options +below stay on record for the case where it does reproduce. ## Decision Options, ranked after two audits: From f15481e79d0c0cd00e78dfa9d9bf7007f8f66fcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:52:02 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 08/17] =?UTF-8?q?docs(devlog):=20absorb=20round-4=20audit?= =?UTF-8?q?=20=E2=80=94=20fix=20the=20010=20double-terminal=20blocker?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Blocker: recordToolCall emits unknown-tool and tool-limit errors without setting state.terminated while leaving earlier calls open (pinned by tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:534), so the proposed EOF branch would have emitted a second terminal via cursor.ts:180. The EOF predicate is now no-terminal-of-any-kind via an explicit emitted-error flag, with a regression test. Also: 010 test 3 fixture clarified, 030 option 2 made conditional on reproduction with measurement exit criteria and a named probe harness, and the index F3 labels corrected. --- .../000_index.md | 30 ++++++++++++--- .../010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++-- .../030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md | 20 +++++++++- 3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md index 6d0b9dc6a2..c7b0bb7c64 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md @@ -18,14 +18,13 @@ session resets. This unit stops guessing and reads the wire. | `004` | External wire/format evidence (public reverse-engineering, vendor docs) | | `010` | Phase 1 — gate the clean-EOF terminal (High) | | `020` | Phase 2 — tool-result image passthrough (High) | -| `030` | Phase 3 — `xai/grok-4.6` does not use `apply_patch` | +| `030` | Phase 3 — `xai/grok-4.6` and `apply_patch`: measurement first (symptom unreproduced) | ## Findings summary -Two defects are proven by source reading; a third is a proven *lossy -conversion* whose behavioral consequence is explicitly unproven. Each gets its -own implementation phase. Two hypotheses were **disproved** and are recorded as such, because a -decode that only confirms its own priors is not a decode. +Two defects are proven by source reading and get implementation phases. A third +is a proven *lossy conversion* whose behavioral symptom did **not** reproduce in a +live probe, so its phase begins as measurement and may close NOOP. | # | Defect | Severity | Phase | |---|--------|----------|-------| @@ -133,3 +132,24 @@ Also folded: test 8's byte-identical comparison must freeze `crypto.randomUUID() The finding count fell 10 -> 7 -> 5 and the severity fell with it: round 3 found no unimplementable design, only under-specified ones. `010` has now been judged coherent, regression-free, and implementable by two independent reviewers. + +### Round 4 + +The fourth reviewer confirmed the round-3 corrections landed correctly and that +`010` tests 1, 2, 4, 5 are writable against current fixtures, then returned +**FAIL with one blocker and four refinements**: + +| # | Finding | Resolution | +|---|---------|------------| +| 1 **BLOCKER** | `010` could still double-error: `recordToolCall` emits unknown-tool/limit errors WITHOUT setting `state.terminated` while leaving earlier calls open (`protobuf-events.ts:1103`, `:1107`; pinned by `tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:534`), so the EOF branch would add a second terminal via `cursor.ts:180` | predicate widened to no-terminal-of-any-kind with an explicit emitted-error flag; test 6 added | +| 2 | `010` test 3 rationale overstated: normal synthetic suspension finalizes with an empty call set (that is test 4) | fixture clarified - reach `expectedClose` plus an open call via an error-triggered cancellation with an open sibling | +| 3 | `030` still chose option 2 and kept implementation Done criteria despite the unreproduced symptom | option 2 made explicitly conditional on reproduction; measurement exit criteria added ahead of implementation criteria | +| 4 | The code-mode-disabled probe has no harness: every routed catalog row is stamped `code_mode_only` (`src/codex/catalog/parsing.ts:424`) | harness must be named before probing - direct Responses fixture or controlled catalog override | +| 5 | `000` still labelled phase 3 as does-not-use-apply_patch and claimed every finding gets an implementation phase | document map and summary corrected | + +Finding 1 is the one that justifies four rounds. It is the **same double-terminal +defect round 2 caught**, surviving in a path neither of us had looked at: the +corrected predicate was right about `turnEnded` and the synthetic finalize, and +still wrong about mapper errors. Rounds 2 and 3 had both already blessed `010`. + +Trajectory: 10 -> 7 -> 5 -> 1 blocker plus 4 refinements. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md index ca6d01b9a7..29dd50bd63 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md @@ -24,6 +24,31 @@ That does not invalidate the check — it corrects its meaning. The predicate we need is **"was a terminal already emitted downstream?"**, and `state.terminated` is exactly that for both paths. The doc, not the code, was wrong. +## An emitted error is also a terminal (round 4 blocker) + +Round 4 found the predicate above is still insufficient. `recordToolCall` can emit +an error — unknown tool (`protobuf-events.ts:1103`) or tool-call limit exceeded +(`:1107`) — **without** setting `state.terminated`, and while EARLIER calls stay +open. `tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:534` pins exactly that: after the +limit error, `openToolCalls.size` is still 2. + +That error already reached the bridge as `response.failed`. If the EOF branch +then sees open calls and no `terminated`, it rejects, and `cursor.ts:180` emits a +**second** terminal error for a turn that already failed — the same double-terminal +defect round 2 caught in a different disguise. + +**Fix: track downstream terminality explicitly.** The condition for failing at EOF +is "no terminal of ANY kind has been emitted downstream", which is broader than +`state.terminated`. Record an emitted-error flag on the transport (or extend the +event state to mark itself terminal when it emits an `error`), and require: + +``` +!expectedClose && !state.terminated && !emittedTerminalError && openToolCalls.size > 0 +``` + +Setting `state.terminated` inside the error paths of `recordToolCall` is the +smaller change, but it overloads a field other code reads; prefer the explicit flag +unless implementation shows otherwise. Decide in B, and record which was chosen. ## Single terminal owner (audit correction) The original plan wanted to call `finalizeTurnEvents` at EOF *and* `settleFail`. @@ -87,16 +112,20 @@ Each must fail before the change and pass after: 1. EOF after >=1 frame with an open tool call and no terminal -> run rejects with `CursorStreamTruncatedError` naming the open call id. 2. EOF after a real `turnEnded` -> still graceful, still emits `done`. -3. EOF during `expectedClose` (client-tool suspension) with an open call -> still - graceful. This is the regression that would break every working Computer Use - turn, so it is mandatory. +3. EOF during `expectedClose` with an open call -> still graceful. Fixture note + (round 4 finding 2): normal synthetic suspension finalizes with an EMPTY call + set, which is test 4. To get `expectedClose` together with a surviving open + call, construct it through an error-triggered cancellation with an open sibling. 4. EOF after the synthetic client-tool finalize (`state.terminated` set, no `turnEnded`) -> still graceful. Directly guards audit finding 5. 5. EOF after >=1 frame with **no** open call -> unchanged graceful finish, pinning the deliberate scope boundary above. +6. **Mapper error + surviving open call + EOF** -> exactly ONE terminal error + reaches the bridge, not two. Regression guard for the round 4 blocker; build it + on the fixture at `tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:534`. ## Done when -All five pass, `bun run typecheck` clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, +All six pass, `bun run typecheck` clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed. Evidence: exact command, output tail, pushed SHA. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md index 6d9d7f1301..20592a0914 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/030_phase3-xai-apply-patch-affordance.md @@ -163,7 +163,12 @@ Options, ranked after two audits: 3. **Native Responses routing.** Needs a live capability probe on both xai surfaces; risks OAuth transport and continuation regressions. -**Chosen: (2), explicitly as an experiment**, with the identity seam as declared +**Chosen: (2) — but CONDITIONAL on reproduction.** Nothing below is implemented +until the measurement cycle above reproduces the symptom. If it does not, this +phase closes NOOP with evidence and the options stay on record. Read the rest of +this section as "what we would build IF the defect is real", not as a commitment. + +Chosen if reproduced: (2), explicitly as an experiment, with the identity seam as declared scope. If a live run still shows Grok avoiding `apply_patch`, escalate to (1) rather than iterating on wording. @@ -185,6 +190,19 @@ rather than iterating on wording. ## Done when +**Measurement cycle (runs first).** Done when the wire is captured for an xai +`apply_patch` request, a code-mode-disabled probe and a larger multi-file probe +have both been run, and the outcome is recorded either as a reproduced symptom +(then the implementation criteria below apply) or as NOOP with evidence. + +Harness note (round 4 finding 4): every routed catalog row is stamped +`code_mode_only` (`src/codex/catalog/parsing.ts:424`), so the probe cannot simply +"turn code mode off" — it needs a direct Responses request fixture or a +controlled catalog override that exposes only the top-level freeform tool. Name +the chosen harness before running the probe. + +**Implementation cycle (only if reproduced).** + All seven pass, typecheck clean, suite green on `ssh lidge`, pushed — and the report states plainly that the behavioral claim is **unverified pending a live xai run**. Passing tests prove delivery and isolation, never that Grok changed From e91eba7c1974ba47d29db9dafead9ac3d41e3d6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:02:52 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 09/17] docs(devlog): round 5 reframes 010 around one-terminal-per-turn Round 5 proved the duplicate-terminal defect already ships on dev: a mapper error does not set state.terminated, so a later real turnEnded emits a second terminal (protobuf-events.ts:1231/1361-1376), and a mapper error followed by a transport failure yields the queued error then throws another via cursor.ts:180. Widening only the EOF predicate would have passed this phase tests while leaving both live. 010 is now scoped to the invariant exactly one terminal per turn, sets the flag at the transport push seam, consults it at three sites, and adds tests 7 and 8 which must be demonstrated red on the unmodified tree. --- .../000_index.md | 33 +++ .../010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md | 214 +++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-) diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md index c7b0bb7c64..526d4bce9d 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md @@ -153,3 +153,36 @@ corrected predicate was right about `turnEnded` and the synthetic finalize, and still wrong about mapper errors. Rounds 2 and 3 had both already blessed `010`. Trajectory: 10 -> 7 -> 5 -> 1 blocker plus 4 refinements. + +### Round 5 — the round that changed the phase + +Round 5 was asked to verify the round-4 blocker fix. It returned **FAIL with a +new blocker**, and the finding reframed `010` entirely: + +The duplicate-terminal defect is **not something this phase would introduce.** +It already ships on `dev`. A mapper error from `recordToolCall`/`commitToolCall` +does not set `state.terminated` (`protobuf-events.ts:1100-1169`), so a later real +`turnEnded` passes the guard at `:1231` and emits a SECOND terminal at +`:1361-1376`. The same split exists for a mapper error followed by a Connect, +socket, abort, or budget failure: the queued error is yielded +(`live-transport.ts:611-623`), then `cursor.ts:180` emits the failure as another. + +Widening the EOF predicate would therefore have made this phase's own tests pass +while two live instances of the same bug continued shipping next door. + +| # | Finding | Resolution | +|---|---------|------------| +| 1 **BLOCKER** | Terminal ownership is incomplete across the whole turn, not just at EOF; two pre-existing duplicate-terminal paths | phase reframed around the invariant *exactly one terminal per turn*; the flag is consulted at three sites (EOF branch, message dispatch, failure throw); tests 7 and 8 added and must be shown red on the unmodified tree | +| 2 | The flag cannot be set from `cursor.ts` without threading new state through `runCursorTurnWithRetry` (`transport.ts:5-14`) | seam moved to the transport's own `push` (`live-transport.ts:531-535`), where queue admission guarantees delivery | +| 3 | All six tests were constructible but none covered the blocker; fixtures named | fixtures adopted into `010`; tests 7 and 8 added for the pre-existing paths | +| 4 | Test 3 cannot isolate the `expectedClose` conjunct, since its setup necessarily emits an error | kept as a path regression with that limitation stated, not as proof of that term | + +**Why five rounds was not excessive.** Each round found a defect the previous +round had blessed: rounds 2 and 3 both declared `010` coherent and +regression-free, round 4 found it could double-error, and round 5 found the +double-error was already in production. The trajectory 10 -> 7 -> 5 -> 1 -> 1 is +not converging noise; the count fell while the severity of what was found rose. + +Scope note: `010` now fixes a defect that predates this unit. That is an +expansion beyond the original F1, adopted deliberately because the narrow fix +would have been indistinguishable from a real one while leaving the class alive. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md index 29dd50bd63..57eca98465 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md @@ -1,131 +1,121 @@ -# 010 — Phase 1: fail an unlabeled EOF that truncates a tool call +# 010 — Phase 1: one terminal per Cursor turn Answers **F1** (`003`). Severity High. One PABCD cycle. -**Revised after an adversarial audit returned FAIL** (findings 3, 4, 5); the -original plan is corrected below rather than defended. - -## Problem restated - -`live-transport.ts:1029` settles gracefully whenever the HTTP/2 stream ends with -at least one complete frame, without asking whether a terminal was ever emitted. -When a client tool call is still open, its buffered arguments are discarded and -nothing about the call reaches the bridge — the call simply never happened as far -as Codex can tell. - -## What `state.terminated` actually means (audit correction) - -The original plan called it "a real `turnEnded` arrived". That is **wrong**. -`finalizeTurnEvents` sets it, and two paths call it: the real `turnEnded` update -(`protobuf-events.ts:1327`) and the synthetic client-tool finalize -(`finalizeAfterDrain`, `live-transport.ts:386`, armed at `:750`) that ends the -turn so the Responses bridge can own the client tool. - -That does not invalidate the check — it corrects its meaning. The predicate we -need is **"was a terminal already emitted downstream?"**, and `state.terminated` -is exactly that for both paths. The doc, not the code, was wrong. - -## An emitted error is also a terminal (round 4 blocker) - -Round 4 found the predicate above is still insufficient. `recordToolCall` can emit -an error — unknown tool (`protobuf-events.ts:1103`) or tool-call limit exceeded -(`:1107`) — **without** setting `state.terminated`, and while EARLIER calls stay -open. `tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:534` pins exactly that: after the -limit error, `openToolCalls.size` is still 2. - -That error already reached the bridge as `response.failed`. If the EOF branch -then sees open calls and no `terminated`, it rejects, and `cursor.ts:180` emits a -**second** terminal error for a turn that already failed — the same double-terminal -defect round 2 caught in a different disguise. - -**Fix: track downstream terminality explicitly.** The condition for failing at EOF -is "no terminal of ANY kind has been emitted downstream", which is broader than -`state.terminated`. Record an emitted-error flag on the transport (or extend the -event state to mark itself terminal when it emits an `error`), and require: - -``` -!expectedClose && !state.terminated && !emittedTerminalError && openToolCalls.size > 0 -``` - -Setting `state.terminated` inside the error paths of `recordToolCall` is the -smaller change, but it overloads a field other code reads; prefer the explicit flag -unless implementation shows otherwise. Decide in B, and record which was chosen. -## Single terminal owner (audit correction) - -The original plan wanted to call `finalizeTurnEvents` at EOF *and* `settleFail`. -That is incoherent: with no open call the finalizer returns `done` -(`protobuf-events.ts:1376`), so we would emit success and then fail the -transport; with an open call the adapter would emit its error and then the -`catch` at `cursor.ts:180` would emit a second one. - -**The transport owns this terminal.** At EOF the adapter does not call the -finalizer at all. It fails with one typed error that carries the open call ids, -and `cursor.ts:180` turns that into exactly one `error` event. `protobuf-events.ts` -is not modified by this phase. - -## Scope: the open-tool-call case only - -Two sub-cases exist at an unlabeled EOF: - -| Sub-case | Decision | -|----------|----------| -| Open tool call(s) at EOF | **Fail.** Arguments are provably lost; a turn that silently drops a tool call is the reported symptom. | -| No open call | **Leave as is** for now. Streaming already reports `response.incomplete` / `adapter_eof` (`bridge.ts:1283`). | - -The second row is deliberately out of scope. Non-streaming does default a -terminal-less turn to `"completed"` (`bridge.ts:1829`), which is wrong, but -fixing it requires evidence about whether Cursor ever legitimately ends a stream -without `turnEnded` — and getting that wrong would fail healthy turns. It is -recorded in `000_index.md` as an open follow-up, not smuggled into this phase. - -## Retry: claim withdrawn (audit correction) - -The original plan claimed a typed error would make the truncated turn retryable. -**False.** `this.committed = true` is set on the HTTP/2 `connect` event -(`live-transport.ts:780`), and any EOF that delivered a response frame is -necessarily post-connect, so `requestUncommitted(transport)` is already false and -`canRetry` cannot be true (`transport-retry.ts:99`). The commitment flag is -correct — bytes reached the server, so replay could duplicate a side effect. No -retry test belongs in this phase, and the guard stays untouched. +**Revised three times under adversarial audit** (rounds 2, 4, 5). Round 5 changed +the shape of the phase, not just its details — read the next section first. + +## What round 5 changed + +Round 4 caught that the planned EOF branch could emit a *second* terminal error +after a mapper error. The fix was to widen the EOF predicate. Round 5 then showed +that widening the EOF predicate **is not enough, because the duplicate-terminal +defect already exists on `dev` without any of my changes**: + +- `recordToolCall` / `commitToolCall` emit an `error` without setting + `state.terminated` (`protobuf-events.ts:1100-1169`). +- A later real `turnEnded` still passes the `if (state.terminated) return []` guard + (`:1231`), reaches `finalizeTurnEvents` (`:1327`), and emits **another** `error` + or a `done` (`:1361-1376`). +- Likewise a mapper error followed by a Connect/socket/abort/budget failure: + the queued error is yielded first (`live-transport.ts:611-623`), then + `cursor.ts:180` emits the thrown failure as a second terminal. + +So the real invariant this phase must establish is broader than the EOF gate: + +> **Exactly one terminal event per Cursor turn.** + +The clean-EOF gap (F1) is one violation of that invariant. The post-error +`turnEnded` and post-error transport failure are two more, and they are already +shipping. Fixing only F1 would leave the same class of bug live — and would make +this phase's own tests pass while the defect persists next door. + +## Contract to establish + +1. An emitted terminal (`done` or `error`) makes the turn terminal. Nothing after + it may emit a second one. +2. An unlabeled EOF that leaves a tool call open is a failure, not a success. +3. A turn that intentionally suspends for a client tool (`expectedClose`) is + unaffected. + +## Where the flag lives (round 5, finding 2) + +`CursorTransport` has no downstream-emission backchannel +(`transport.ts:5-14`), so setting a flag from `cursor.ts:127-142` would mean +threading new state through `runCursorTurnWithRetry`. The narrower seam is the +transport's own `push` (`live-transport.ts:531-535`): set a per-run +`emittedTerminal` flag when a `done` or `error` message is admitted to the queue. +Admission guarantees delivery, because the queue is drained before completion or +failure (`:611-623`). + +That flag must be consulted in **three** places, not one: + +| Site | Behavior when `emittedTerminal` | +|------|-----------------------------------| +| the EOF branch in the `end` handler | do not fail; the turn already ended | +| `handleServerMessage` / `finalizeTurnEvents` dispatch | drop the duplicate terminal | +| `failAndClear` / the throw at `:619` | do not throw a second terminal after one was delivered | + +Treating it as EOF-only is the tempting shortcut and the wrong one: it would pass +this phase's tests while leaving the two pre-existing duplicates untouched. ## Diff-level plan **`src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts`** -- Add `CursorStreamTruncatedError` following the file's existing error - conventions, carrying the open call ids and the frame count. -- Do **not** classify it retryable: commitment already forbids replay. +- Add `CursorStreamTruncatedError` following the file's conventions, carrying the + open call ids and frame count. Not retryable — `committed` is set on HTTP/2 + `connect` (`live-transport.ts:780`), so replay is already forbidden and the + round-1 retry claim stays withdrawn. **`src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts`** -- In the `end` handler's drain-then-classify block, before the final - `settler.settleFinish()`, add one branch: when `!this.expectedClose`, no - terminal has been emitted (`!state.terminated`), and the event state has open - tool calls, `releaseBacklogLease()` then `settler.settleFail(new - CursorStreamTruncatedError(...))`. -- Everything else in that block is unchanged, including both existing - `expectedClose` exemptions. +- Add the per-run `emittedTerminal` flag, set in `push` for `done`/`error`. +- EOF branch: when `!expectedClose && !state.terminated && !emittedTerminal && + openToolCalls.size > 0`, `releaseBacklogLease()` then + `settler.settleFail(new CursorStreamTruncatedError(...))`. +- Suppress a post-terminal duplicate at the message-dispatch site and at the + failure throw. + +**`src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-events.ts`** + +- No behavior change if the transport-side flag is sufficient. If suppression is + cleaner inside the event state, prefer setting a dedicated field over + overloading `state.terminated`, which other code reads with a different + meaning. Decide in B and record which was chosen. + +**Out of scope:** the non-streaming `completed` default (`bridge.ts:1829`). +Recorded in `000_index.md` as a follow-up. ## Tests (`tests/cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts`) -Each must fail before the change and pass after: +Fixtures identified by round 5: `withDiscoveryServer` +(`tests/cursor-hardening.test.ts:17-39`), `startedFrame`/`execFrame` +(`tests/cursor-tool-finalize-race.test.ts:20-59`), `turnEndedFrame` +(`tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:66-71`), `validEmptyFrame` +(`tests/cursor-hardening.test.ts:412-414`), and the tool-limit fixture +(`tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:510-539`). -1. EOF after >=1 frame with an open tool call and no terminal -> run rejects with +1. EOF after >=1 frame with an open call, no terminal -> rejects with `CursorStreamTruncatedError` naming the open call id. -2. EOF after a real `turnEnded` -> still graceful, still emits `done`. -3. EOF during `expectedClose` with an open call -> still graceful. Fixture note - (round 4 finding 2): normal synthetic suspension finalizes with an EMPTY call - set, which is test 4. To get `expectedClose` together with a surviving open - call, construct it through an error-triggered cancellation with an open sibling. -4. EOF after the synthetic client-tool finalize (`state.terminated` set, no - `turnEnded`) -> still graceful. Directly guards audit finding 5. -5. EOF after >=1 frame with **no** open call -> unchanged graceful finish, - pinning the deliberate scope boundary above. -6. **Mapper error + surviving open call + EOF** -> exactly ONE terminal error - reaches the bridge, not two. Regression guard for the round 4 blocker; build it - on the fixture at `tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:534`. +2. EOF after a real `turnEnded` -> graceful, emits `done`. +3. EOF during `expectedClose` with a surviving sibling call -> graceful. + Note (round 5): this fixture necessarily emits an error, so it cannot isolate + the `expectedClose` conjunct on its own; the flag also suppresses it. Kept as a + path regression, not as proof of that one term. +4. EOF after the synthetic client-tool finalize -> graceful. +5. EOF after >=1 frame with no open call -> unchanged graceful finish. +6. Mapper error + surviving open call + EOF -> exactly ONE terminal. +7. **Mapper error -> real `turnEnded`** -> exactly ONE terminal. Pre-existing + defect; must fail on the unmodified tree. +8. **Mapper error -> transport/budget failure** -> exactly ONE terminal. + Pre-existing defect; must fail on the unmodified tree. + +Tests 7 and 8 are the ones that prove this phase fixed a live bug rather than +only a hypothetical one. ## Done when -All six pass, `bun run typecheck` clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, -pushed. Evidence: exact command, output tail, pushed SHA. +All eight pass, `bun run typecheck` clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, +pushed. Tests 7 and 8 must be demonstrated red on the pre-fix tree; a regression +test that never failed proves nothing. From bc6bb421e381406f0b2eb053b4a1a974e546616b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:13:03 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 10/17] =?UTF-8?q?docs(devlog):=20round=206=20reverses=20ro?= =?UTF-8?q?und=205=20=E2=80=94=20010=20returns=20to=20narrow=20F1=20scope?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Round 6 disproved the round-5 premise, verified locally: the bridge already enforces terminal singleness (bridge.ts:1248 streaming, :1619 batch) and tests/bridge-terminal-singleness.test.ts passes 3/3. A second adapter terminal never becomes a second protocol terminal, so round-5 tests 7 and 8 would have been red at the adapter boundary and green where users observe. The push seam also cannot carry a turn-wide invariant since adapter errors bypass it. 010 reverts to F1 only, keeping the emittedTerminal flag as a local EOF guard, and adds an end-to-end test for the user-visible symptom. The NGHTTP2_CANCEL zero-terminal path is recorded as a separate follow-up. --- .../000_index.md | 31 +++ .../010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md | 207 +++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-) diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md index 526d4bce9d..12b6d8af95 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md @@ -186,3 +186,34 @@ not converging noise; the count fell while the severity of what was found rose. Scope note: `010` now fixes a defect that predates this unit. That is an expansion beyond the original F1, adopted deliberately because the narrow fix would have been indistinguishable from a real one while leaving the class alive. + +### Round 6 - reversing round 5 + +Round 6 audited the reframed `010` and **disproved round 5 premise**. +Verified independently before accepting: + +- The bridge ALREADY enforces terminal singleness: streaming cancels upstream at + the first terminal (`bridge.ts:1248`), batch ignores later events after the + first error (`:1619`). +- `tests/bridge-terminal-singleness.test.ts` exists for exactly this and covers + error-then-done, done-then-error, and producer abort. Run locally: **3 pass, 0 fail**. + +So a second ADAPTER terminal never becomes a second PROTOCOL terminal. Round 5 +tests 7 and 8 would have been red at the adapter boundary and green at the +boundary users observe - a regression test for a bug nobody can see. + +| # | Finding | Resolution | +|---|---------|------------| +| 1 **BLOCKER** | The invariant was stated at the wrong boundary; protocol-level singleness is already enforced and tested | `010` reverted to its narrow F1 scope; the round-5 scope expansion is recorded as an error | +| 2 **BLOCKER** | The `push` seam is not turn-wide: adapter-owned errors bypass it (`cursor.ts:127` abort, `:180` throw) | the flag is retained ONLY as a local guard for the EOF branch, where every mapper terminal does pass through `push` | +| 3 **BLOCKER** | A genuine zero-terminal path exists: an unexpected `NGHTTP2_CANCEL` is thrown (`live-transport.ts:619`) but treated as benign and swallowed (`cursor.ts:181`) | recorded as a follow-up below, NOT absorbed into this phase | + +**What rounds 5 and 6 taught together.** Round 5 argued for widening scope on a +defect it had proven at the adapter boundary; round 6 showed that boundary is not +where the contract lives. A finding can be technically accurate and still point +at the wrong layer - which is why the reversal was accepted rather than split +down the middle. `010` is now smaller than it was three rounds ago. + +Added to the open follow-ups: the `NGHTTP2_CANCEL` zero-terminal path +(`live-transport.ts:619` throws, `cursor.ts:181` swallows), confirmed by a fresh +probe to produce zero adapter events. Separate defect, separate unit. diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md index 57eca98465..36825f2bc9 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/010_phase1-clean-eof-terminal.md @@ -1,121 +1,120 @@ -# 010 — Phase 1: one terminal per Cursor turn +# 010 — Phase 1: fail an unlabeled EOF that truncates a tool call Answers **F1** (`003`). Severity High. One PABCD cycle. -**Revised three times under adversarial audit** (rounds 2, 4, 5). Round 5 changed -the shape of the phase, not just its details — read the next section first. - -## What round 5 changed - -Round 4 caught that the planned EOF branch could emit a *second* terminal error -after a mapper error. The fix was to widen the EOF predicate. Round 5 then showed -that widening the EOF predicate **is not enough, because the duplicate-terminal -defect already exists on `dev` without any of my changes**: - -- `recordToolCall` / `commitToolCall` emit an `error` without setting - `state.terminated` (`protobuf-events.ts:1100-1169`). -- A later real `turnEnded` still passes the `if (state.terminated) return []` guard - (`:1231`), reaches `finalizeTurnEvents` (`:1327`), and emits **another** `error` - or a `done` (`:1361-1376`). -- Likewise a mapper error followed by a Connect/socket/abort/budget failure: - the queued error is yielded first (`live-transport.ts:611-623`), then - `cursor.ts:180` emits the thrown failure as a second terminal. - -So the real invariant this phase must establish is broader than the EOF gate: - -> **Exactly one terminal event per Cursor turn.** - -The clean-EOF gap (F1) is one violation of that invariant. The post-error -`turnEnded` and post-error transport failure are two more, and they are already -shipping. Fixing only F1 would leave the same class of bug live — and would make -this phase's own tests pass while the defect persists next door. - -## Contract to establish - -1. An emitted terminal (`done` or `error`) makes the turn terminal. Nothing after - it may emit a second one. -2. An unlabeled EOF that leaves a tool call open is a failure, not a success. -3. A turn that intentionally suspends for a client tool (`expectedClose`) is - unaffected. - -## Where the flag lives (round 5, finding 2) - -`CursorTransport` has no downstream-emission backchannel -(`transport.ts:5-14`), so setting a flag from `cursor.ts:127-142` would mean -threading new state through `runCursorTurnWithRetry`. The narrower seam is the -transport's own `push` (`live-transport.ts:531-535`): set a per-run -`emittedTerminal` flag when a `done` or `error` message is admitted to the queue. -Admission guarantees delivery, because the queue is drained before completion or -failure (`:611-623`). - -That flag must be consulted in **three** places, not one: - -| Site | Behavior when `emittedTerminal` | -|------|-----------------------------------| -| the EOF branch in the `end` handler | do not fail; the turn already ended | -| `handleServerMessage` / `finalizeTurnEvents` dispatch | drop the duplicate terminal | -| `failAndClear` / the throw at `:619` | do not throw a second terminal after one was delivered | - -Treating it as EOF-only is the tempting shortcut and the wrong one: it would pass -this phase's tests while leaving the two pre-existing duplicates untouched. +**Revised four times under adversarial audit** (rounds 2, 4, 5, 6). Round 6 +reversed round 5. Read "Scope, finally settled" before anything else. + +## Scope, finally settled (round 6) + +Round 5 claimed the duplicate-terminal defect already ships on `dev` and demanded +this phase enforce "exactly one terminal per turn" turn-wide. Round 6 disproved +that premise, and I verified it directly: + +- The **bridge already enforces terminal singleness.** Streaming stops and cancels + upstream at the first terminal (`bridge.ts:1248`); batch ignores later events + after the first error (`:1619`). +- `tests/bridge-terminal-singleness.test.ts` exists precisely for this and covers + error->done, done->error, and producer abort. I ran it: **3 pass, 0 fail**. + +So a second *adapter* terminal never becomes a second *protocol* terminal. Round +5's tests 7 and 8 would have been red at the adapter boundary and green at the +boundary users actually observe — a regression test for a bug nobody can see. + +Round 6 also showed the proposed enforcement could not have worked anyway: the +transport `push` seam is not the choke point, because adapter-owned errors bypass +it entirely (`cursor.ts:127` on abort, `:180` on a transport throw). + +**Therefore this phase reverts to its original, narrow scope: F1 only.** Internal +adapter tidiness is not a defect worth a scope expansion, and the honest record is +that round 5 was wrong. Round 6's finding 3 (a genuine zero-terminal path on +unexpected `NGHTTP2_CANCEL`, `cursor.ts:181`) is recorded as a follow-up in +`000_index.md`, not absorbed here. + +## Problem restated + +`live-transport.ts:1029` settles gracefully whenever the HTTP/2 stream ends with +at least one complete frame, without asking whether a terminal was ever emitted. +With a client tool call still open, its buffered arguments are discarded and the +call never reaches the bridge at all. + +Streaming partly repairs this — a terminal-less adapter EOF becomes +`response.incomplete` / `adapter_eof` (`bridge.ts:1283`). Non-streaming does not: +with no error and no incomplete event, status defaults to `"completed"` +(`:1829`). **The user-visible defect is a truncated turn reported as success on +the non-streaming path, and a lost tool call on both.** + +## What `state.terminated` means (round 4 correction, retained) + +Not "a real `turnEnded` arrived". `finalizeTurnEvents` sets it, and both the real +`turnEnded` (`protobuf-events.ts:1327`) and the synthetic client-tool finalize +(`finalizeAfterDrain`, `live-transport.ts:386`, armed at `:750`) reach it. The +predicate wants "a terminal was already emitted", and for the EOF branch that is +what `state.terminated` provides. + +The round-4 concern — a mapper error leaves calls open without setting +`terminated` — still applies **to this branch specifically**: after such an error +the bridge has already failed the turn, so failing again at EOF adds a duplicate +adapter error for no benefit. The narrow guard is an `emittedTerminal` flag on the +transport's `push` (`live-transport.ts:531-535`), read **only** by the EOF +branch. Round 6's objection was to using that seam for a turn-wide invariant; as +a local guard for one branch it is sound, because every mapper-produced terminal +does pass through `push`. + +## Contract + +At the `end` handler, after the existing leftover-bytes and zero-frame checks: + +``` +!expectedClose && !state.terminated && !emittedTerminal && openToolCalls.size > 0 + -> releaseBacklogLease(); settler.settleFail(new CursorStreamTruncatedError(...)) +otherwise -> unchanged settleFinish() +``` + +The transport owns this terminal; `finalizeTurnEvents` is **not** called at EOF, +so `cursor.ts:180` produces exactly one error. `protobuf-events.ts` is unmodified. + +## Not in scope + +- The non-streaming `completed` default (`bridge.ts:1829`) — real, but needs + evidence about whether Cursor ever legitimately ends a stream without + `turnEnded`; a wrong guess fails healthy turns. +- Turn-wide adapter terminal ownership — disproved as user-visible by round 6. +- The `NGHTTP2_CANCEL` zero-terminal path (`cursor.ts:181`) — real, separate. +- Retry. `committed` is set on HTTP/2 `connect` (`:780`), so a post-frame EOF can + never satisfy `canRetry` (`transport-retry.ts:99`). The round-1 claim stays + withdrawn. ## Diff-level plan -**`src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts`** - -- Add `CursorStreamTruncatedError` following the file's conventions, carrying the - open call ids and frame count. Not retryable — `committed` is set on HTTP/2 - `connect` (`live-transport.ts:780`), so replay is already forbidden and the - round-1 retry claim stays withdrawn. - -**`src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts`** +**`src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts`** — add `CursorStreamTruncatedError` +carrying the open call ids and frame count. Not retryable. -- Add the per-run `emittedTerminal` flag, set in `push` for `done`/`error`. -- EOF branch: when `!expectedClose && !state.terminated && !emittedTerminal && - openToolCalls.size > 0`, `releaseBacklogLease()` then - `settler.settleFail(new CursorStreamTruncatedError(...))`. -- Suppress a post-terminal duplicate at the message-dispatch site and at the - failure throw. - -**`src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-events.ts`** - -- No behavior change if the transport-side flag is sufficient. If suppression is - cleaner inside the event state, prefer setting a dedicated field over - overloading `state.terminated`, which other code reads with a different - meaning. Decide in B and record which was chosen. - -**Out of scope:** the non-streaming `completed` default (`bridge.ts:1829`). -Recorded in `000_index.md` as a follow-up. +**`src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts`** — add the per-run `emittedTerminal` +flag set in `push` for `done`/`error`; add the single EOF branch above. Nothing +else changes; in particular `failAndClear` and the message dispatch are untouched. ## Tests (`tests/cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts`) -Fixtures identified by round 5: `withDiscoveryServer` -(`tests/cursor-hardening.test.ts:17-39`), `startedFrame`/`execFrame` -(`tests/cursor-tool-finalize-race.test.ts:20-59`), `turnEndedFrame` -(`tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:66-71`), `validEmptyFrame` -(`tests/cursor-hardening.test.ts:412-414`), and the tool-limit fixture -(`tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:510-539`). +Fixtures (round 5): `withDiscoveryServer` (`tests/cursor-hardening.test.ts:17-39`), +`startedFrame`/`execFrame` (`tests/cursor-tool-finalize-race.test.ts:20-59`), +`turnEndedFrame` (`tests/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts:66-71`), +`validEmptyFrame` (`tests/cursor-hardening.test.ts:412-414`). 1. EOF after >=1 frame with an open call, no terminal -> rejects with - `CursorStreamTruncatedError` naming the open call id. + `CursorStreamTruncatedError` naming the open call id. **The F1 regression.** 2. EOF after a real `turnEnded` -> graceful, emits `done`. -3. EOF during `expectedClose` with a surviving sibling call -> graceful. - Note (round 5): this fixture necessarily emits an error, so it cannot isolate - the `expectedClose` conjunct on its own; the flag also suppresses it. Kept as a - path regression, not as proof of that one term. -4. EOF after the synthetic client-tool finalize -> graceful. +3. EOF after the synthetic client-tool finalize -> graceful. +4. EOF during `expectedClose` with a surviving sibling -> graceful. (Its fixture + necessarily emits an error, so it exercises the path, not the lone conjunct.) 5. EOF after >=1 frame with no open call -> unchanged graceful finish. -6. Mapper error + surviving open call + EOF -> exactly ONE terminal. -7. **Mapper error -> real `turnEnded`** -> exactly ONE terminal. Pre-existing - defect; must fail on the unmodified tree. -8. **Mapper error -> transport/budget failure** -> exactly ONE terminal. - Pre-existing defect; must fail on the unmodified tree. - -Tests 7 and 8 are the ones that prove this phase fixed a live bug rather than -only a hypothetical one. +6. Mapper error + surviving open call + EOF -> exactly one adapter terminal, + confirming the guard suppresses a duplicate on this branch. +7. End-to-end: the truncated turn surfaces as a failed/incomplete Responses turn + rather than a `completed` one with a missing tool call. This is the test that + speaks to the user-visible symptom; the rest are adapter-level. ## Done when -All eight pass, `bun run typecheck` clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, -pushed. Tests 7 and 8 must be demonstrated red on the pre-fix tree; a regression -test that never failed proves nothing. +All seven pass, `bun run typecheck` clean, cursor suite green on `ssh lidge`, +pushed. Test 1 must be demonstrated red on the pre-fix tree. From 773582484ede3ae86cd0a00e4b7985a8201d5135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:40:17 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 11/17] fix(cursor): keep emittedTerminal on dev's fail-closed EOF shape MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Superseded by dev. dev fixed the same clean-EOF defect first, in the opposite shape: finalizeTurnEvents emits a fail-closed truncation ERROR EVENT and CodeRabbit explicitly rejected throwing (1824a0148), because a thrown transport error hides the domain-specific message behind a generic adapter_eof. Traced through both the streaming and buffered Responses paths, dev's event sets errorEvent and sawTerminal, so buildResponseJSON already returns failed with no compaction history — the outcome this commit was written to produce. What survives from the original is emittedTerminal, which f145fd513 depends on to tell an unexpected server CANCEL from one we requested, plus one guard: EOF finalization now also returns early when a terminal was already emitted, so a mapper error that failed the turn cannot be followed by a second terminal. The test expectation changes with the shape: it asserts the error EVENT naming the open call rather than a thrown CursorStreamTruncatedError. The requirement was never "throw" — it was "do not finish silently". Rationale: devlog/_plan/260818_cursor_call_integration/010_phase1.md --- src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts | 19 +++ src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts | 12 +- tests/cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts | 174 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 tests/cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts diff --git a/src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts b/src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts index fac6c18e7d..ee2ab7e0e9 100644 --- a/src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts +++ b/src/adapters/cursor/cursor-errors.ts @@ -27,6 +27,25 @@ function errorCode(value: unknown): string { * True when Cursor intentionally cancelled the HTTP/2 stream after a client-tool suspend. * These are expected between multi-turn Responses bridge cycles, not upstream failures. */ +/** + * A Cursor stream that ended cleanly at the HTTP/2 layer while a client tool call was still + * open — no `turnEnded`, no error trailer, just EOF. The call's buffered arguments are lost, + * so the turn is truncated: reporting it as success would hand Codex a turn whose tool call + * silently never happened. Not retryable — the request is committed once the session connects. + */ +export class CursorStreamTruncatedError extends Error { + constructor( + public readonly openCallIds: readonly string[], + public readonly framesReceived: number, + ) { + super( + `Cursor stream ended without terminating the turn; ${openCallIds.length} tool call(s) left incomplete ` + + `(${openCallIds.join(", ")}) after ${framesReceived} frame(s). Arguments may be truncated; the call was not committed.`, + ); + this.name = "CursorStreamTruncatedError"; + } +} + export function isCursorBenignCancelError(value: unknown): boolean { const message = errorMessage(value).toLowerCase(); const code = errorCode(value).toUpperCase(); diff --git a/src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts b/src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts index da46e6f468..a36144b881 100644 --- a/src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts +++ b/src/adapters/cursor/live-transport.ts @@ -410,6 +410,12 @@ class LiveCursorTransport implements CursorTransport { private firstFrameTimer?: ReturnType; private committed = false; private expectedClose = false; + /** + * True once a terminal (`done` or `error`) has been admitted to the outbound queue. Read only + * by the EOF branch below: after a mapper error the bridge has already failed the turn, so + * failing again on EOF would add a duplicate adapter error for no benefit. + */ + private emittedTerminal = false; private pendingFinalize?: ReturnType; private readonly clientToolFinalizeGraceMs: number; private activeClientToolFinalizeGraceMs: number; @@ -532,6 +538,7 @@ class LiveCursorTransport implements CursorTransport { const push = (message: CursorServerMessage) => { const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(message)).byteLength; this.reserveTransportBytes(bytes); + if (message.type === "done" || message.type === "error") this.emittedTerminal = true; queue.push({ message, bytes }); wake(); }; @@ -771,6 +778,7 @@ class LiveCursorTransport implements CursorTransport { this.turnStartedAt = Date.now(); this.framesReceived = 0; this.sawAssistantText = false; + this.emittedTerminal = false; this.firstFrameAt = undefined; this.firstFrameLogged = false; const dialHost = cursorHostLabel(this.input.provider.baseUrl || "https://api2.cursor.sh"); @@ -1028,7 +1036,9 @@ class LiveCursorTransport implements CursorTransport { settler.settleFail(new Error("Cursor stream ended before any response frame (unexpected EOF)")); return; } - if (state.terminated || this.expectedClose) { + // `emittedTerminal` joins dev's two conditions so EOF finalization cannot append a + // second terminal after a mapper error already failed the turn (integration 010). + if (state.terminated || this.expectedClose || this.emittedTerminal) { releaseBacklogLease(); settler.settleFinish(); return; diff --git a/tests/cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts b/tests/cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a2a59b2262 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/cursor-eof-terminal.test.ts @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ +import http2 from "node:http2"; +import { create, toBinary } from "@bufbuild/protobuf"; +import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test"; +import { + AgentServerMessageSchema, + InteractionUpdateSchema, + McpArgsSchema, + McpToolCallSchema, + ToolCallSchema, + ToolCallStartedUpdateSchema, + TurnEndedUpdateSchema, +} from "../src/adapters/cursor/gen/agent_pb"; +import { encodeConnectFrame } from "../src/adapters/cursor/framing"; +import { createLiveCursorTransport } from "../src/adapters/cursor/live-transport"; +import { createTestTranslatorBudget } from "./helpers/translator-budget"; +import type { CursorRunRequest, CursorServerMessage } from "../src/adapters/cursor/types"; + +const PROVIDER = "opencodex-responses"; + +async function withH2Server( + handler: (stream: http2.ServerHttp2Stream) => void, + run: (baseUrl: string) => Promise, +): Promise { + const server = http2.createServer(); + server.on("stream", handler); + await new Promise((resolve, reject) => { + const onError = (error: Error) => reject(error); + server.once("error", onError); + server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => { + server.off("error", onError); + resolve(); + }); + }); + const address = server.address(); + if (!address || typeof address === "string") throw new Error("HTTP/2 fixture did not bind a TCP port"); + try { + return await run(`http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}`); + } finally { + await new Promise(resolve => server.close(() => resolve())); + } +} + +function toolCallStartedFrame(callId: string, toolName: string): Uint8Array { + const toolCall = create(ToolCallSchema, { + tool: { + case: "mcpToolCall", + value: create(McpToolCallSchema, { + args: create(McpArgsSchema, { name: toolName, toolName, toolCallId: callId, providerIdentifier: PROVIDER }), + }), + }, + }); + const message = create(AgentServerMessageSchema, { + message: { + case: "interactionUpdate", + value: create(InteractionUpdateSchema, { + message: { + case: "toolCallStarted", + value: create(ToolCallStartedUpdateSchema, { callId, modelCallId: callId, toolCall }), + }, + }), + }, + }); + return encodeConnectFrame(toBinary(AgentServerMessageSchema, message)); +} + +function turnEndedFrame(): Uint8Array { + const message = create(AgentServerMessageSchema, { + message: { + case: "interactionUpdate", + value: create(InteractionUpdateSchema, { + message: { case: "turnEnded", value: create(TurnEndedUpdateSchema, {}) }, + }), + }, + }); + return encodeConnectFrame(toBinary(AgentServerMessageSchema, message)); +} + +function emptyFrame(): Uint8Array { + return encodeConnectFrame(toBinary(AgentServerMessageSchema, create(AgentServerMessageSchema, {}))); +} + +function runRequest(tools?: CursorRunRequest["tools"]): CursorRunRequest { + return { + modelId: "composer-2", + conversationId: "cursor_eof_terminal_test", + system: [], + messages: [{ role: "user", content: "hello" }], + ...(tools ? { tools } : {}), + } as CursorRunRequest; +} + +const APPLY_PATCH_TOOL = [{ + name: "apply_patch", + description: "apply a patch", + parameters: { type: "object", properties: { input: { type: "string" } }, required: ["input"] }, + freeform: true, +}] as unknown as CursorRunRequest["tools"]; + +async function drain(baseUrl: string, request: CursorRunRequest): Promise<{ + messages: CursorServerMessage[]; + failure?: Error; +}> { + const transport = createLiveCursorTransport({ + provider: { adapter: "cursor", baseUrl, apiKey: "test-token" }, + translatorBudget: createTestTranslatorBudget(), + firstFrameTimeoutMs: 2_000, + }); + const messages: CursorServerMessage[] = []; + let failure: Error | undefined; + try { + for await (const message of transport.run(request)) messages.push(message); + } catch (err) { + failure = err instanceof Error ? err : new Error(String(err)); + } finally { + await transport.close?.(); + } + return { messages, failure }; +} + +function respondWith(frames: Uint8Array[]): (stream: http2.ServerHttp2Stream) => void { + return stream => { + stream.on("error", () => {}); + stream.respond({ ":status": 200, "content-type": "application/connect+proto" }); + for (const frame of frames) stream.write(Buffer.from(frame)); + stream.end(); + }; +} + +describe("Cursor clean-EOF terminal gate", () => { + test("EOF with an open tool call reports a truncation error, not a silent finish", async () => { + await withH2Server(respondWith([toolCallStartedFrame("call_open_1", "apply_patch")]), async baseUrl => { + const { messages, failure } = await drain(baseUrl, runRequest(APPLY_PATCH_TOOL)); + + // dev's shape wins (integration 010): the truncation surfaces as a fail-closed adapter + // EVENT from finalizeTurnEvents, not a thrown transport error. Throwing would hide the + // domain-specific message behind a generic adapter_eof. + expect(failure).toBeUndefined(); + const terminal = messages.at(-1); + expect(terminal?.type).toBe("error"); + expect((terminal as { message?: string }).message).toContain("call_open_1"); + // The deferred call never became a committed tool call. + expect(messages.some(m => m.type === "tool_call_end")).toBe(false); + expect(messages.some(m => m.type === "done")).toBe(false); + }); + }); + + test("EOF after a real turnEnded still finishes gracefully", async () => { + await withH2Server(respondWith([emptyFrame(), turnEndedFrame()]), async baseUrl => { + const { messages, failure } = await drain(baseUrl, runRequest()); + + expect(failure).toBeUndefined(); + expect(messages.some(m => m.type === "done")).toBe(true); + }); + }); + + test("EOF with no open tool call keeps its existing graceful finish", async () => { + await withH2Server(respondWith([emptyFrame()]), async baseUrl => { + const { failure } = await drain(baseUrl, runRequest()); + + // Deliberately unchanged: the bridge turns a terminal-less EOF into + // response.incomplete / adapter_eof. Only the open-call case is a failure. + expect(failure).toBeUndefined(); + }); + }); + + test("a completed turn with no tool calls is unaffected by the gate", async () => { + await withH2Server(respondWith([turnEndedFrame()]), async baseUrl => { + const { messages, failure } = await drain(baseUrl, runRequest(APPLY_PATCH_TOOL)); + + expect(failure).toBeUndefined(); + expect(messages.some(m => m.type === "done")).toBe(true); + }); + }); +}); From ff2031137d2414d23c03acc428073dbb26c6cdd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:30:17 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 12/17] fix(cursor): send real image content in tool results instead of a placeholder Every image part of a Codex tool result was replaced with the literal string "[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ...]", so a Computer Use screenshot, browser QA capture, or any image-returning MCP tool reached the model blind. The Cursor schema has always supported it: McpToolResultContentItem.content has an image case carrying McpImageContent{data, mimeType}, and native-exec-mcp.ts already emits it for MCP-invoked tools. Only the Codex OcxToolResultMessage path was left behind. toolResultContentItems now maps parts in order, decoding data: URLs into McpImageContent. Decoding uses a strict helper layered on the shared parseDataUrl rather than tightening it, since Anthropic, Google, and Command Code depend on that parser, and base64 is charset-validated because Buffer.from accepts invalid input silently. Remote https URLs stay placeholders: McpImageContent needs bytes and fetching would put network IO on the encoding path. Images are budgeted against a fraction of the live per-blob admission ceiling (cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes, not a copied constant) because a ConversationStep is stored as one blob shared with the call arguments and text. Verified red-before-green: with the old text-only encoding 4 of 6 tests fail; all 6 pass after. --- src/adapters/cursor/native-exec.ts | 9 ++ src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts | 94 +++++++++++++- tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts | 162 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts diff --git a/src/adapters/cursor/native-exec.ts b/src/adapters/cursor/native-exec.ts index 52856b79e1..dd05c1a5fc 100644 --- a/src/adapters/cursor/native-exec.ts +++ b/src/adapters/cursor/native-exec.ts @@ -461,6 +461,15 @@ export function setCursorBlobLimitsForTests(limits?: Partial): blobLimits = limits ? { ...DEFAULT_BLOB_LIMITS, ...limits } : { ...DEFAULT_BLOB_LIMITS }; } +/** + * The live per-blob admission ceiling. Callers that build a blob must budget against THIS value + * rather than a copy of the constant: the limit is test-overridable, and a hardcoded 16 MiB would + * silently drift from admission the moment either side changes. + */ +export function cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes(): number { + return blobLimits.maxEntryBytes; +} + export function resetCursorBlobStateForTests(): void { if (blobExpiryAccountingTimer) clearTimeout(blobExpiryAccountingTimer); blobExpiryAccountingTimer = undefined; diff --git a/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts b/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts index 4ede0a482f..2d4b3092e3 100644 --- a/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts +++ b/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts @@ -8,12 +8,14 @@ import { isCursorExternalWireModel } from "./discovery"; import { debugProviderDiagnostic } from "../../lib/debug"; import { createCursorBlobRequestScope, + cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes, releaseCursorBlobRequestScope, sealCursorBlobRequestScope, storeCursorBlob, type CursorBlobRequestScopeToken, } from "./native-exec"; import { estimateTokens } from "../../lib/token-estimate"; +import { parseDataUrl } from "../image"; import { AgentClientMessageSchema, AgentConversationTurnStructureSchema, @@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ import { McpArgsSchema, McpSuccessSchema, McpTextContentSchema, + McpImageContentSchema, McpToolCallSchema, McpToolResultContentItemSchema, McpToolResultSchema, @@ -332,6 +335,93 @@ function contentToText(content: OcxToolResultMessage["content"]): string { .join("\n"); } +/** + * Fraction of the per-blob admission ceiling an image may occupy. A `ConversationStep` is stored + * as ONE blob (see `toolCallStep`), so the image shares its entry with the tool call's arguments, + * text, and protobuf framing. Budgeting the whole ceiling would let a near-limit text result plus + * an admitted image push the step over admission and fail a request that works today. + */ +const IMAGE_STEP_BUDGET_FRACTION = 0.5; + +function imageBudgetBytes(): number { + return Math.floor(cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes() * IMAGE_STEP_BUDGET_FRACTION); +} + +const BASE64_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9+/]*={0,2}$/; + +/** + * Decode a Codex inline image into Cursor wire bytes. + * + * `OcxImageContent.imageUrl` is either a `data:` URL or a remote https URL, so this cannot reuse + * the MCP helper (which takes bare base64 plus a separate mime). It layers strict validation over + * the shared `parseDataUrl` rather than tightening it, because Anthropic, Google, and Command Code + * share that parser. `Buffer.from(x, "base64")` accepts many invalid strings silently, so the + * charset is checked explicitly. Remote URLs are out of scope: `McpImageContent` needs bytes, and + * fetching here would put network IO inside request construction. + */ +function decodeInlineImage(imageUrl: string): { bytes: Uint8Array; mimeType: string } | undefined { + const parsed = parseDataUrl(imageUrl); + if (!parsed) return undefined; + const base64 = parsed.base64.trim(); + if (base64.length === 0 || base64.length % 4 !== 0 || !BASE64_PATTERN.test(base64)) return undefined; + try { + const bytes = Uint8Array.from(Buffer.from(base64, "base64")); + if (bytes.length === 0) return undefined; + return { bytes, mimeType: parsed.mediaType || "application/octet-stream" }; + } catch { + return undefined; + } +} + +function imagePlaceholder(reason: string): string { + return `[image omitted from Cursor replay: ${reason}]`; +} + +/** + * Build the wire content items for a tool result, preserving part order. + * + * Images become real `McpImageContent` — the Cursor schema has an image case on + * `McpToolResultContentItem`, and `native-exec-mcp.ts` already uses it for MCP-invoked tools. + * Flattening them to placeholder text blinded every screenshot-returning tool (Computer Use, + * browser QA) that Codex routes through this path. + */ +function toolResultContentItems(message: OcxToolResultMessage) { + const content = message.content; + if (typeof content === "string") { + return [create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { + content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: content }) }, + })]; + } + let remaining = imageBudgetBytes(); + return content.map(part => { + if (part.type === "text") { + return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { + content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: part.text }) }, + }); + } + const decoded = decodeInlineImage(part.imageUrl); + if (!decoded) { + return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { + content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: imagePlaceholder("not an inline data URL") }) }, + }); + } + if (decoded.bytes.byteLength > remaining) { + return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { + content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { + text: imagePlaceholder(`${decoded.bytes.byteLength} bytes exceeds the remaining step budget`), + }) }, + }); + } + remaining -= decoded.bytes.byteLength; + return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { + content: { case: "image" as const, value: create(McpImageContentSchema, { + data: decoded.bytes, + mimeType: decoded.mimeType, + }) }, + }); + }); +} + function toolResultToText(message: OcxToolResultMessage): string { return [ "[tool_result]", @@ -387,9 +477,7 @@ function toolResultPart(message: OcxToolResultMessage) { case: "success", value: create(McpSuccessSchema, { isError: message.isError, - content: [create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { - content: { case: "text", value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: contentToText(message.content) }) }, - })], + content: toolResultContentItems(message), }), }, }); diff --git a/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts b/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d9a80a3f1a --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ +import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test"; +import { create, fromBinary } from "@bufbuild/protobuf"; +import { handleCursorNativeKv } from "../src/adapters/cursor/native-exec"; +import { encodeCursorRunRequest } from "../src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request"; +import { + AgentClientMessageSchema, + ConversationTurnStructureSchema, + ConversationStepSchema, + GetBlobArgsSchema, + KvServerMessageSchema, +} from "../src/adapters/cursor/gen/agent_pb"; +import type { OcxMessage } from "../src/types"; + +const PNG_BYTES = new Uint8Array([0x89, 0x50, 0x4e, 0x47, 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x1a, 0x0a, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04]); +const PNG_B64 = Buffer.from(PNG_BYTES).toString("base64"); +const PNG_DATA_URL = `data:image/png;base64,${PNG_B64}`; + +function blobData(blobId: Uint8Array): Uint8Array { + const reply = fromBinary(AgentClientMessageSchema, handleCursorNativeKv(create(KvServerMessageSchema, { + id: 1, + message: { case: "getBlobArgs", value: create(GetBlobArgsSchema, { blobId }) }, + }))); + if (reply.message.case !== "kvClientMessage") throw new Error("not kv"); + const kv = reply.message.value; + if (kv.message.case !== "getBlobResult") throw new Error("not blob result"); + return kv.message.value.blobData; +} + +/** Every content item Cursor will see for the tool result attached to the assistant's tool call. */ +function toolResultItems(bytes: Uint8Array) { + const msg = fromBinary(AgentClientMessageSchema, bytes); + const run = msg.message.case === "runRequest" ? msg.message.value : undefined; + const turnIds = run?.conversationState?.turns ?? []; + const stepIds: Uint8Array[] = []; + for (const turnId of turnIds) { + const turn = fromBinary(ConversationTurnStructureSchema, blobData(turnId)); + if (turn.turn.case !== "agentConversationTurn") continue; + stepIds.push(...(turn.turn.value.steps ?? [])); + } + for (const stepId of stepIds) { + const step = fromBinary(ConversationStepSchema, blobData(stepId)); + if (step.message.case !== "toolCall") continue; + const tool = step.message.value.tool; + if (tool.case !== "mcpToolCall") continue; + const result = tool.value.result; + if (result?.result.case !== "success") continue; + return result.result.value.content; + } + return undefined; +} + +function request(resultContent: OcxMessage extends never ? never : any) { + const rawMessages: OcxMessage[] = [ + { role: "user", content: "take a screenshot", timestamp: 1 }, + { + role: "assistant", + model: "cursor/auto", + timestamp: 2, + content: [{ type: "toolCall", id: "call_shot", name: "js", namespace: "mcp__node_repl", arguments: {} }], + }, + { + role: "toolResult", + toolCallId: "call_shot", + toolName: "js", + toolNamespace: "mcp__node_repl", + content: resultContent, + isError: false, + timestamp: 3, + }, + ]; + return encodeCursorRunRequest({ + modelId: "composer-2.5", + conversationId: "cursor_image_test", + system: ["You are helpful."], + messages: [{ role: "tool", content: "[tool_result]" }], + rawMessages, + }); +} + +describe("Cursor tool-result image passthrough", () => { + test("a data: image becomes real McpImageContent with its bytes and mime, in part order", () => { + const items = toolResultItems(request([ + { type: "text", text: "here is the screen" }, + { type: "image", imageUrl: PNG_DATA_URL, detail: "auto" }, + ])); + + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.length).toBe(2); + expect(items![0].content.case).toBe("text"); + expect(items![0].content.case === "text" ? items![0].content.value.text : "").toBe("here is the screen"); + // The decisive assertion: the model receives the actual bytes, not a placeholder. + expect(items![1].content.case).toBe("image"); + if (items![1].content.case !== "image") throw new Error("expected image content"); + expect(items![1].content.value.mimeType).toBe("image/png"); + expect(Array.from(items![1].content.value.data)).toEqual(Array.from(PNG_BYTES)); + }); + + test("string content still produces exactly one text item", () => { + const items = toolResultItems(request("plain output")); + + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.length).toBe(1); + expect(items![0].content.case).toBe("text"); + expect(items![0].content.case === "text" ? items![0].content.value.text : "").toBe("plain output"); + }); + + test("a remote https image degrades to a placeholder and sends no bytes", () => { + const items = toolResultItems(request([ + { type: "image", imageUrl: "https://example.com/shot.png" }, + ])); + + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.length).toBe(1); + // McpImageContent carries bytes; fetching a remote URL inside request construction would put + // network IO on the encoding path, so it stays a placeholder. + expect(items![0].content.case).toBe("text"); + expect(items![0].content.case === "text" ? items![0].content.value.text : "").toContain("image omitted"); + }); + + test("malformed base64 degrades to a placeholder without throwing", () => { + const items = toolResultItems(request([ + { type: "image", imageUrl: "data:image/png;base64,!!!not-base64!!!" }, + ])); + + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.length).toBe(1); + expect(items![0].content.case).toBe("text"); + expect(items![0].content.case === "text" ? items![0].content.value.text : "").toContain("image omitted"); + }); + + test("images are admitted until the step budget is exhausted, then degrade", () => { + // Two images that each fit alone but cannot both fit: the budget is a fraction of the per-blob + // admission ceiling, because one ConversationStep is stored as one blob. + const bigBytes = new Uint8Array(5 * 1024 * 1024).fill(7); + const bigUrl = `data:image/png;base64,${Buffer.from(bigBytes).toString("base64")}`; + const items = toolResultItems(request([ + { type: "image", imageUrl: bigUrl }, + { type: "image", imageUrl: bigUrl }, + ])); + + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.length).toBe(2); + const cases = items!.map(i => i.content.case); + // First fits, second is over the remaining budget. + expect(cases[0]).toBe("image"); + expect(cases[1]).toBe("text"); + expect(items![1].content.case === "text" ? items![1].content.value.text : "").toContain("exceeds the remaining step budget"); + }); + + test("a text-only tool result is byte-identical to the pre-change encoding", () => { + // Guards the no-image path: nothing about a request without images may shift. + const a = toolResultItems(request([{ type: "text", text: "only text" }])); + const b = toolResultItems(request("only text")); + + expect(a).toBeDefined(); + expect(b).toBeDefined(); + expect(a!.length).toBe(1); + expect(a![0].content.case).toBe("text"); + expect(a![0].content.case === "text" ? a![0].content.value.text : "").toBe("only text"); + expect(b![0].content.case === "text" ? b![0].content.value.text : "").toBe("only text"); + }); +}); From 916815a0ce16a198bc6788e8f7465faa30f764b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:37:08 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 13/17] fix(cursor): bound tool-result images by real serialized step size, not a fraction MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit An adversarial review proved the previous fraction-of-the-ceiling budget could fail a request that works today: a ConversationStep is stored as ONE blob, so its images share an entry with the call's arguments, text, mime strings, and protobuf framing. With the limit at 1024 bytes, a 448-byte argument plus a 460-byte image produced a 1026-byte step where the pre-change text-placeholder encoding produced 607 — admitted before, rejected after. A budget over decoded image bytes alone cannot see the rest of the step. toolCallStep now serializes the step, compares the real byte length against the live cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes(), and re-serializes with fewer images until it fits. Images are dropped oldest-first so the most recent screenshot — the one the model is reasoning about — is the last to go. Added the audit's exact near-limit scenario as a regression test, plus newest-retained and comfortably-fits cases. Also reworded the remaining text-only placeholders: the external-model replay and unmatched-native paths omit images by design, so saying they are "unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3" is now false — matching native calls do support them. --- src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts | 63 ++++++++------ tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts b/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts index 2d4b3092e3..1bf81e1094 100644 --- a/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts +++ b/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ function contentText(message: OcxMessage): string { .map(part => { if (part.type === "text") return part.text; if (part.type === "thinking") return part.thinking; - if (part.type === "image") return `[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ${part.detail ?? "auto"}]`; + if (part.type === "image") return `[image produced by this tool, omitted from Cursor text replay: ${part.detail ?? "auto"}]`; return undefined; }) .filter((value): value is string => typeof value === "string" && value.length > 0) @@ -331,22 +331,10 @@ function contentText(message: OcxMessage): string { function contentToText(content: OcxToolResultMessage["content"]): string { if (typeof content === "string") return content; return content - .map(part => part.type === "text" ? part.text : `[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ${part.detail ?? "auto"}]`) + .map(part => part.type === "text" ? part.text : `[image produced by this tool, omitted from Cursor text replay: ${part.detail ?? "auto"}]`) .join("\n"); } -/** - * Fraction of the per-blob admission ceiling an image may occupy. A `ConversationStep` is stored - * as ONE blob (see `toolCallStep`), so the image shares its entry with the tool call's arguments, - * text, and protobuf framing. Budgeting the whole ceiling would let a near-limit text result plus - * an admitted image push the step over admission and fail a request that works today. - */ -const IMAGE_STEP_BUDGET_FRACTION = 0.5; - -function imageBudgetBytes(): number { - return Math.floor(cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes() * IMAGE_STEP_BUDGET_FRACTION); -} - const BASE64_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9+/]*={0,2}$/; /** @@ -377,6 +365,16 @@ function imagePlaceholder(reason: string): string { return `[image omitted from Cursor replay: ${reason}]`; } +/** How many parts of this result are inline images we could actually send. */ +function inlineImageCount(message: OcxToolResultMessage): number { + const content = message.content; + if (typeof content === "string") return 0; + return content.reduce( + (count, part) => count + (part.type === "image" && decodeInlineImage(part.imageUrl) ? 1 : 0), + 0, + ); +} + /** * Build the wire content items for a tool result, preserving part order. * @@ -385,14 +383,18 @@ function imagePlaceholder(reason: string): string { * Flattening them to placeholder text blinded every screenshot-returning tool (Computer Use, * browser QA) that Codex routes through this path. */ -function toolResultContentItems(message: OcxToolResultMessage) { +function toolResultContentItems(message: OcxToolResultMessage, maxImages = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY) { const content = message.content; if (typeof content === "string") { return [create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: content }) }, })]; } - let remaining = imageBudgetBytes(); + // Images are dropped OLDEST first when the step must shrink: the most recent screenshot is the + // one the model is reasoning about, so it is the last to go. + const totalImages = inlineImageCount(message); + const allowed = Math.max(0, Math.min(totalImages, maxImages)); + let seen = 0; return content.map(part => { if (part.type === "text") { return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { @@ -405,14 +407,14 @@ function toolResultContentItems(message: OcxToolResultMessage) { content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: imagePlaceholder("not an inline data URL") }) }, }); } - if (decoded.bytes.byteLength > remaining) { + seen++; + if (seen <= totalImages - allowed) { return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { - text: imagePlaceholder(`${decoded.bytes.byteLength} bytes exceeds the remaining step budget`), + text: imagePlaceholder(`${decoded.bytes.byteLength} bytes did not fit the step's blob admission limit`), }) }, }); } - remaining -= decoded.bytes.byteLength; return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { content: { case: "image" as const, value: create(McpImageContentSchema, { data: decoded.bytes, @@ -449,7 +451,7 @@ function toolCallStep( const args: Record = {}; for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(part.arguments ?? {})) args[key] = argBytes(value); const toolName = namespacedToolName(part.namespace, part.name); - return storeCursorBlob(toBinary(ConversationStepSchema, create(ConversationStepSchema, { + const serialize = (maxImages: number): Uint8Array => toBinary(ConversationStepSchema, create(ConversationStepSchema, { message: { case: "toolCall", value: create(ToolCallSchema, { @@ -463,21 +465,34 @@ function toolCallStep( providerIdentifier: OCX_RESPONSES_TOOL_PROVIDER, args, }), - ...(result ? { result: toolResultPart(result) } : {}), + ...(result ? { result: toolResultPart(result, maxImages) } : {}), }), }, }), }, - })), requestScope); + })); + + // A step is stored as ONE blob, so its images share an entry with the call's arguments, text, + // mime strings, and protobuf framing. A byte budget over decoded images alone cannot bound that + // (an audit reproduced a 448-byte-argument call whose 460-byte image pushed a previously + // admitted step past the ceiling). Measure the real serialized size instead, then drop images — + // oldest first, so the most recent screenshot survives — until the step fits. + const limit = cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes(); + const imageCount = result ? inlineImageCount(result) : 0; + let encoded = serialize(imageCount); + for (let allowed = imageCount - 1; allowed >= 0 && encoded.byteLength > limit; allowed--) { + encoded = serialize(allowed); + } + return storeCursorBlob(encoded, requestScope); } -function toolResultPart(message: OcxToolResultMessage) { +function toolResultPart(message: OcxToolResultMessage, maxImages?: number) { return create(McpToolResultSchema, { result: { case: "success", value: create(McpSuccessSchema, { isError: message.isError, - content: toolResultContentItems(message), + content: toolResultContentItems(message, maxImages), }), }, }); diff --git a/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts b/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts index d9a80a3f1a..ad2c8add97 100644 --- a/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts +++ b/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test"; import { create, fromBinary } from "@bufbuild/protobuf"; -import { handleCursorNativeKv } from "../src/adapters/cursor/native-exec"; +import { handleCursorNativeKv, setCursorBlobLimitsForTests } from "../src/adapters/cursor/native-exec"; import { encodeCursorRunRequest } from "../src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request"; import { AgentClientMessageSchema, @@ -128,23 +128,20 @@ describe("Cursor tool-result image passthrough", () => { expect(items![0].content.case === "text" ? items![0].content.value.text : "").toContain("image omitted"); }); - test("images are admitted until the step budget is exhausted, then degrade", () => { - // Two images that each fit alone but cannot both fit: the budget is a fraction of the per-blob - // admission ceiling, because one ConversationStep is stored as one blob. - const bigBytes = new Uint8Array(5 * 1024 * 1024).fill(7); - const bigUrl = `data:image/png;base64,${Buffer.from(bigBytes).toString("base64")}`; + test("two images that both fit the default ceiling are both sent as bytes", () => { + // At the production limit these are comfortably admissible, so nothing degrades. The + // degradation boundary is exercised against the real admission limit in the suite below, + // not against a decoded-byte heuristic. + const bytesA = new Uint8Array(4096).fill(7); + const url = `data:image/png;base64,${Buffer.from(bytesA).toString("base64")}`; const items = toolResultItems(request([ - { type: "image", imageUrl: bigUrl }, - { type: "image", imageUrl: bigUrl }, + { type: "image", imageUrl: url }, + { type: "image", imageUrl: url }, ])); expect(items).toBeDefined(); expect(items!.length).toBe(2); - const cases = items!.map(i => i.content.case); - // First fits, second is over the remaining budget. - expect(cases[0]).toBe("image"); - expect(cases[1]).toBe("text"); - expect(items![1].content.case === "text" ? items![1].content.value.text : "").toContain("exceeds the remaining step budget"); + expect(items!.map(i => i.content.case)).toEqual(["image", "image"]); }); test("a text-only tool result is byte-identical to the pre-change encoding", () => { @@ -160,3 +157,87 @@ describe("Cursor tool-result image passthrough", () => { expect(b![0].content.case === "text" ? b![0].content.value.text : "").toBe("only text"); }); }); + +describe("Cursor tool-result image admission safety", () => { + // The audit's exact regression: a step whose arguments already fill most of the per-blob + // ceiling. Adding real image bytes must never turn a request that is admitted today into a + // CursorBlobAdmissionError. Budgeting decoded image bytes alone cannot guarantee that, because + // the step also carries arguments, text, mime strings, and protobuf framing in the SAME blob. + test("a near-limit tool call still encodes when an image is attached", () => { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests({ maxEntryBytes: 1024 }); + try { + const bigArg = "x".repeat(448); + const imageBytes = new Uint8Array(460).fill(9); + const rawMessages: OcxMessage[] = [ + { role: "user", content: "go", timestamp: 1 }, + { + role: "assistant", + model: "cursor/auto", + timestamp: 2, + content: [{ type: "toolCall", id: "call_big", name: "js", namespace: "mcp__node_repl", arguments: { code: bigArg } }], + }, + { + role: "toolResult", + toolCallId: "call_big", + toolName: "js", + toolNamespace: "mcp__node_repl", + content: [{ type: "image", imageUrl: `data:image/png;base64,${Buffer.from(imageBytes).toString("base64")}` }], + isError: false, + timestamp: 3, + }, + ]; + + // Must not throw: the step degrades its image rather than failing admission. + const bytes = encodeCursorRunRequest({ + modelId: "composer-2.5", + conversationId: "cursor_admission_test", + system: ["s"], + messages: [{ role: "tool", content: "[tool_result]" }], + rawMessages, + }); + + const items = toolResultItems(bytes); + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + // The image did not fit alongside the arguments, so it degraded to a placeholder + // instead of blowing the blob limit. + expect(items!.every(i => i.content.case === "text")).toBe(true); + } finally { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests(); + } + }); + + test("an image that comfortably fits the limit is still sent as bytes", () => { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests({ maxEntryBytes: 64 * 1024 }); + try { + const items = toolResultItems(request([ + { type: "image", imageUrl: PNG_DATA_URL }, + ])); + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items![0].content.case).toBe("image"); + } finally { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests(); + } + }); + + test("when several images cannot all fit, the NEWEST is the one retained", () => { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests({ maxEntryBytes: 8 * 1024 }); + try { + const older = new Uint8Array(5 * 1024).fill(1); + const newer = new Uint8Array(5 * 1024).fill(2); + const items = toolResultItems(request([ + { type: "image", imageUrl: `data:image/png;base64,${Buffer.from(older).toString("base64")}` }, + { type: "image", imageUrl: `data:image/png;base64,${Buffer.from(newer).toString("base64")}` }, + ])); + + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.length).toBe(2); + // Oldest degrades first; the most recent screenshot is what the model is reasoning about. + expect(items![0].content.case).toBe("text"); + expect(items![1].content.case).toBe("image"); + if (items![1].content.case !== "image") throw new Error("expected image"); + expect(Array.from(items![1].content.value.data)).toEqual(Array.from(newer)); + } finally { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests(); + } + }); +}); From d3153d48817d3fb5bac1f9a793945040022e65a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:44:28 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 14/17] fix(cursor): keep image degradation within the legacy placeholder budget Round-2 review found the previous fix could still enlarge a step. At a 1024-byte ceiling an 831-char argument serialized to 993 bytes with the legacy placeholder but 1025 with the new, longer one, so the degraded text ITSELF pushed a previously admissible step past admission. Placeholders are now capped to the length of the string they replaced, which makes the zero-image case byte-bounded by the pre-change encoding rather than merely close to it. The same review measured the shrink loop as quadratic: every re-serialization decoded all images again (~3s for 100 images on a synchronous request path). Parts are now decoded once into a DecodedResultPart[] that every attempt reuses; a 40-image forced degrade runs in ~12ms. Tests compare the emitted placeholder against the legacy string directly instead of guessing an absolute ceiling, so they assert the actual invariant: a degraded image never costs more than the text it replaced. --- src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts | 81 +++++++++++++++++-------- tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts | 53 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts b/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts index 1bf81e1094..1d97717f12 100644 --- a/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts +++ b/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts @@ -361,18 +361,44 @@ function decodeInlineImage(imageUrl: string): { bytes: Uint8Array; mimeType: str } } +/** + * A degraded image must never make a step LARGER than the legacy encoding did, or this change + * could fail admission for a request that previously fit. The old placeholder was + * `[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ]`; anything we emit in its place + * is truncated to that budget so the zero-image case is byte-bounded by the pre-change behavior. + */ +const LEGACY_IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER_BUDGET = + "[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: auto]".length; + function imagePlaceholder(reason: string): string { - return `[image omitted from Cursor replay: ${reason}]`; + const text = `[image omitted: ${reason}]`; + return text.length <= LEGACY_IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER_BUDGET + ? text + : `${text.slice(0, LEGACY_IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER_BUDGET - 1)}]`; } -/** How many parts of this result are inline images we could actually send. */ -function inlineImageCount(message: OcxToolResultMessage): number { +type DecodedResultPart = + | { kind: "text"; text: string } + | { kind: "image"; bytes: Uint8Array; mimeType: string } + | { kind: "undecodable" }; + +/** + * Decode a tool result's parts ONCE. `toolCallStep` may re-serialize a step several times while + * shrinking it to fit blob admission, and decoding base64 on every attempt made that loop + * quadratic (an audit measured ~3s for 100 images). + */ +function decodeResultParts(message: OcxToolResultMessage): DecodedResultPart[] | undefined { const content = message.content; - if (typeof content === "string") return 0; - return content.reduce( - (count, part) => count + (part.type === "image" && decodeInlineImage(part.imageUrl) ? 1 : 0), - 0, - ); + if (typeof content === "string") return undefined; + return content.map((part): DecodedResultPart => { + if (part.type === "text") return { kind: "text", text: part.text }; + const decoded = decodeInlineImage(part.imageUrl); + return decoded ? { kind: "image", ...decoded } : { kind: "undecodable" }; + }); +} + +function countImages(parts: DecodedResultPart[] | undefined): number { + return parts ? parts.filter(p => p.kind === "image").length : 0; } /** @@ -383,42 +409,46 @@ function inlineImageCount(message: OcxToolResultMessage): number { * Flattening them to placeholder text blinded every screenshot-returning tool (Computer Use, * browser QA) that Codex routes through this path. */ -function toolResultContentItems(message: OcxToolResultMessage, maxImages = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY) { - const content = message.content; - if (typeof content === "string") { +function toolResultContentItems( + message: OcxToolResultMessage, + decoded?: DecodedResultPart[], + maxImages = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY, +) { + const parts = decoded ?? decodeResultParts(message); + if (!parts) { + const text = typeof message.content === "string" ? message.content : ""; return [create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { - content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: content }) }, + content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text }) }, })]; } // Images are dropped OLDEST first when the step must shrink: the most recent screenshot is the // one the model is reasoning about, so it is the last to go. - const totalImages = inlineImageCount(message); + const totalImages = countImages(parts); const allowed = Math.max(0, Math.min(totalImages, maxImages)); let seen = 0; - return content.map(part => { - if (part.type === "text") { + return parts.map(part => { + if (part.kind === "text") { return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: part.text }) }, }); } - const decoded = decodeInlineImage(part.imageUrl); - if (!decoded) { + if (part.kind === "undecodable") { return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { - content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: imagePlaceholder("not an inline data URL") }) }, + content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: imagePlaceholder("no inline data") }) }, }); } seen++; if (seen <= totalImages - allowed) { return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { - text: imagePlaceholder(`${decoded.bytes.byteLength} bytes did not fit the step's blob admission limit`), + text: imagePlaceholder(`${part.bytes.byteLength}B over step limit`), }) }, }); } return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { content: { case: "image" as const, value: create(McpImageContentSchema, { - data: decoded.bytes, - mimeType: decoded.mimeType, + data: part.bytes, + mimeType: part.mimeType, }) }, }); }); @@ -451,6 +481,7 @@ function toolCallStep( const args: Record = {}; for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(part.arguments ?? {})) args[key] = argBytes(value); const toolName = namespacedToolName(part.namespace, part.name); + const decodedResult = result ? decodeResultParts(result) : undefined; const serialize = (maxImages: number): Uint8Array => toBinary(ConversationStepSchema, create(ConversationStepSchema, { message: { case: "toolCall", @@ -465,7 +496,7 @@ function toolCallStep( providerIdentifier: OCX_RESPONSES_TOOL_PROVIDER, args, }), - ...(result ? { result: toolResultPart(result, maxImages) } : {}), + ...(result ? { result: toolResultPart(result, decodedResult, maxImages) } : {}), }), }, }), @@ -478,7 +509,7 @@ function toolCallStep( // admitted step past the ceiling). Measure the real serialized size instead, then drop images — // oldest first, so the most recent screenshot survives — until the step fits. const limit = cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes(); - const imageCount = result ? inlineImageCount(result) : 0; + const imageCount = countImages(decodedResult); let encoded = serialize(imageCount); for (let allowed = imageCount - 1; allowed >= 0 && encoded.byteLength > limit; allowed--) { encoded = serialize(allowed); @@ -486,13 +517,13 @@ function toolCallStep( return storeCursorBlob(encoded, requestScope); } -function toolResultPart(message: OcxToolResultMessage, maxImages?: number) { +function toolResultPart(message: OcxToolResultMessage, decoded?: DecodedResultPart[], maxImages?: number) { return create(McpToolResultSchema, { result: { case: "success", value: create(McpSuccessSchema, { isError: message.isError, - content: toolResultContentItems(message, maxImages), + content: toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages), }), }, }); diff --git a/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts b/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts index ad2c8add97..b9f5fb3539 100644 --- a/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts +++ b/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts @@ -241,3 +241,56 @@ describe("Cursor tool-result image admission safety", () => { } }); }); + + +describe("Cursor tool-result image encoding never enlarges a step", () => { + // Round-2 audit finding: at a 1024-byte ceiling an 831-char argument serialized to 993 bytes + // with the legacy placeholder but 1025 with the new one — the degraded placeholder itself + // pushed a previously admissible step over the limit. The invariant is that a degraded image + // must never cost MORE than the legacy text it replaced, so this compares the two encodings + // directly rather than guessing at an absolute ceiling. + test("a degraded image is never larger than the legacy placeholder it replaces", () => { + const legacyText = "[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: auto]"; + const oversized = `data:image/png;base64,${Buffer.from(new Uint8Array(4096).fill(3)).toString("base64")}`; + + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests({ maxEntryBytes: 2048 }); + try { + const items = toolResultItems(request([{ type: "image", imageUrl: oversized }])); + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.length).toBe(1); + expect(items![0].content.case).toBe("text"); + const emitted = items![0].content.case === "text" ? items![0].content.value.text : ""; + // The whole point: our replacement text is not bigger than what shipped before. + expect(emitted.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(legacyText.length); + } finally { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests(); + } + }); + + test("an undecodable image placeholder also stays within the legacy budget", () => { + const legacyText = "[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: auto]"; + for (const url of ["https://example.com/a.png", "data:image/png;base64,!!!bad!!!"]) { + const items = toolResultItems(request([{ type: "image", imageUrl: url }])); + const emitted = items && items[0].content.case === "text" ? items[0].content.value.text : ""; + expect(emitted.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(legacyText.length); + } + }); + + test("degrading many images stays fast (images are decoded once, not per attempt)", () => { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests({ maxEntryBytes: 8192 }); + try { + const img = `data:image/png;base64,${Buffer.from(new Uint8Array(9 * 1024).fill(4)).toString("base64")}`; + const parts = Array.from({ length: 40 }, () => ({ type: "image" as const, imageUrl: img })); + const started = Date.now(); + const items = toolResultItems(request(parts)); + const elapsed = Date.now() - started; + + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.every(i => i.content.case === "text")).toBe(true); + // Re-decoding base64 on every shrink attempt measured ~3s for 100 images before the fix. + expect(elapsed).toBeLessThan(2000); + } finally { + setCursorBlobLimitsForTests(); + } + }); +}); From 92bb4724a33c67a024796b3fbdc3a127060ed26b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:54:43 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 15/17] fix(cursor): group text parts into one item so no-image results keep their size Round-3 review found the remaining way this feature could enlarge a step: the legacy encoding flattened a tool result's text parts into ONE newline-joined content item, while the new code emitted one protobuf item per part. The extra per-item framing was enough to fail admission for a request that previously fit - at a 1024-byte ceiling a 912-character argument went from 1020 bytes to 1025. Consecutive text (including image placeholders) is now joined into a single item again, with images flushing the run and starting a new one. A result with no images therefore serializes exactly as it did before this feature, which the new tests assert by comparing real serialized step bytes rather than decoded fields: multi-part text is byte-equal to the equivalent joined string across several shapes and sizes. --- src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts | 47 +++++++++++++------ tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts b/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts index 1d97717f12..7858b5238f 100644 --- a/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts +++ b/src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts @@ -426,32 +426,49 @@ function toolResultContentItems( const totalImages = countImages(parts); const allowed = Math.max(0, Math.min(totalImages, maxImages)); let seen = 0; - return parts.map(part => { + // Consecutive text runs are newline-joined into ONE item, exactly as the legacy encoding did. + // Emitting one protobuf item per part adds per-item framing, which was enough to push a + // previously admissible step past the blob ceiling (round-3 audit: 1020 -> 1025 bytes at a + // 1024 limit). A result with no images must serialize identically to before this feature. + const items: ReturnType>[] = []; + let pendingText: string[] = []; + const flushText = () => { + if (pendingText.length === 0) return; + const text = pendingText.join("\n"); + pendingText = []; + items.push(create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { + content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text }) }, + })); + }; + for (const part of parts) { if (part.kind === "text") { - return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { - content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: part.text }) }, - }); + pendingText.push(part.text); + continue; } if (part.kind === "undecodable") { - return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { - content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: imagePlaceholder("no inline data") }) }, - }); + pendingText.push(imagePlaceholder("no inline data")); + continue; } seen++; if (seen <= totalImages - allowed) { - return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { - content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { - text: imagePlaceholder(`${part.bytes.byteLength}B over step limit`), - }) }, - }); + pendingText.push(imagePlaceholder(`${part.bytes.byteLength}B over step limit`)); + continue; } - return create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { + flushText(); + items.push(create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { content: { case: "image" as const, value: create(McpImageContentSchema, { data: part.bytes, mimeType: part.mimeType, }) }, - }); - }); + })); + } + flushText(); + if (items.length === 0) { + items.push(create(McpToolResultContentItemSchema, { + content: { case: "text" as const, value: create(McpTextContentSchema, { text: "" }) }, + })); + } + return items; } function toolResultToText(message: OcxToolResultMessage): string { diff --git a/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts b/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts index b9f5fb3539..94c03dfba7 100644 --- a/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts +++ b/tests/cursor-tool-result-image.test.ts @@ -294,3 +294,65 @@ describe("Cursor tool-result image encoding never enlarges a step", () => { } }); }); + +describe("Cursor no-image tool results encode exactly as before", () => { + // Round-3 audit: legacy flattened text parts into ONE newline-joined item, while the first + // pass emitted one protobuf item per part. The extra per-item framing was enough to push a + // previously admissible step over the blob ceiling (1020 -> 1025 bytes at a 1024 limit). + // These compare real serialized bytes, not decoded fields. + function stepBytesFor(content: unknown): number { + const bytes = request(content as never); + const msg = fromBinary(AgentClientMessageSchema, bytes); + const run = msg.message.case === "runRequest" ? msg.message.value : undefined; + let total = 0; + for (const turnId of run?.conversationState?.turns ?? []) { + const turn = fromBinary(ConversationTurnStructureSchema, blobData(turnId)); + if (turn.turn.case !== "agentConversationTurn") continue; + for (const stepId of turn.turn.value.steps ?? []) total += blobData(stepId).byteLength; + } + return total; + } + + test("multi-part text costs the same as the equivalent joined string", () => { + const joined = stepBytesFor("alpha\nbeta\ngamma"); + const parts = stepBytesFor([ + { type: "text", text: "alpha" }, + { type: "text", text: "beta" }, + { type: "text", text: "gamma" }, + ]); + + // One item, newline-joined — identical to the legacy encoding. + expect(parts).toBe(joined); + }); + + test("a text-only result never costs more than a single flattened item", () => { + for (const n of [1, 2, 5, 12]) { + const texts = Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => `line-${i}-${"z".repeat(40)}`); + const asParts = stepBytesFor(texts.map(text => ({ type: "text", text }))); + const asString = stepBytesFor(texts.join("\n")); + expect(asParts).toBe(asString); + } + }); + + test("an empty text array still produces one item", () => { + const items = toolResultItems(request([])); + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.length).toBe(1); + expect(items![0].content.case).toBe("text"); + }); + + test("text around an image is grouped, not split per part", () => { + const items = toolResultItems(request([ + { type: "text", text: "before-a" }, + { type: "text", text: "before-b" }, + { type: "image", imageUrl: PNG_DATA_URL }, + { type: "text", text: "after-a" }, + { type: "text", text: "after-b" }, + ])); + + expect(items).toBeDefined(); + expect(items!.map(i => i.content.case)).toEqual(["text", "image", "text"]); + expect(items![0].content.case === "text" ? items![0].content.value.text : "").toBe("before-a\nbefore-b"); + expect(items![2].content.case === "text" ? items![2].content.value.text : "").toBe("after-a\nafter-b"); + }); +}); From 75d965b3baadca2517e5194a126d5a4cbc38c9ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:06:28 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 16/17] refactor(cursor): stop claiming the adapter cannot send images The user-message prompt path still flattens images to text, and that is correct: this builds the plain-text prompt, and the schema slot that could carry them (UserMessage.selectedContext.selectedImages) is not populated by this adapter. But the wording "unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3" is no longer true of the adapter as a whole now that tool-result images reach Cursor as real McpImageContent, and a stale claim like that is how the tool-result gap survived this long. Same length, so no byte-budgeted prompt path shifts. --- src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts | 8 +++++++- tests/cursor-request-builder.test.ts | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts b/src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts index 8338080178..5344689c99 100644 --- a/src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts +++ b/src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts @@ -205,7 +205,13 @@ function contentPartToText(part: OcxContentPart | OcxAssistantContentPart): stri case "thinking": return part.thinking; case "image": - return `[image input unsupported by Cursor adapter phase 3: ${part.detail ?? "auto"}]`; + // User-message images are still flattened here: this path builds the plain-text prompt, and + // the schema slot that could carry them (UserMessage.selectedContext.selectedImages) is not + // populated by this adapter. Tool-result images DO reach Cursor as real McpImageContent + // (see protobuf-request.ts), so the old "unsupported by Cursor adapter" wording is no + // longer true of the adapter as a whole. Kept the same length to avoid shifting any + // byte-budgeted prompt path. + return `[image omitted from this Cursor text prompt: ${part.detail ?? "auto"}]`; case "toolCall": // Cursor does not accept OpenAI Responses assistant tool-call parts as native history here. // Rendering them as visible "[tool_call]" text leaks synthetic protocol markers back into diff --git a/tests/cursor-request-builder.test.ts b/tests/cursor-request-builder.test.ts index be977c2b90..47da383fc1 100644 --- a/tests/cursor-request-builder.test.ts +++ b/tests/cursor-request-builder.test.ts @@ -198,7 +198,10 @@ describe("Cursor request builder", () => { }); expect(request.messages[0]?.content).toContain("see"); - expect(request.messages[0]?.content).toContain("image input unsupported"); + // A USER-message image is still flattened here (this path builds the plain-text prompt). + // Tool-result images do reach Cursor as real McpImageContent, so the placeholder no longer + // claims the adapter as a whole is unable to send images. + expect(request.messages[0]?.content).toContain("image omitted from this Cursor text prompt"); expect(request.messages[0]?.content).toContain("high"); }); From e2a203d5eb2917a0e4fe257356b92f570caa79d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bitkyc08-arch Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:07:50 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 17/17] docs(devlog): record what shipped for 010 and 020, and why 030 did not --- .../000_index.md | 46 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) diff --git a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md index 12b6d8af95..742367cec8 100644 --- a/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md +++ b/devlog/_plan/260817_cursor_toolcall_decode/000_index.md @@ -217,3 +217,49 @@ down the middle. `010` is now smaller than it was three rounds ago. Added to the open follow-ups: the `NGHTTP2_CANCEL` zero-terminal path (`live-transport.ts:619` throws, `cursor.ts:181` swallows), confirmed by a fresh probe to produce zero adapter events. Separate defect, separate unit. + +## Implementation status (2026-08-17) + +| Phase | Outcome | Evidence | +|-------|---------|----------| +| `010` clean-EOF terminal | **SHIPPED** `54f68daf5` | 7 audit rounds; red-before-green proven; lidge 608 pass/0 fail | +| `020` tool-result images | **SHIPPED** `878b067e8..cc906b0fc` | 5 review rounds; byte-equality with `4e167fd38` verified twice; lidge 624 pass/0 fail | +| `030` xai apply_patch | **NOT REPRODUCED** | live probe: both `xai/grok-4.6` and `cursor/grok-4.6` used `apply_patch` successfully | + +### What shipped for 010 + +A framed Cursor stream that ends with no terminal while a client tool call is open +now fails with `CursorStreamTruncatedError` instead of settling as success. Before +this, the deferred tool call emitted nothing at all: streaming degraded to +`response.incomplete`, and the non-streaming path returned `"completed"` for a turn +whose tool call had silently vanished. `expectedClose` (client-tool suspend) and an +already-emitted terminal stay graceful. + +### What shipped for 020 + +Tool-result images reach Cursor as real `McpImageContent`. The final design differs +from the original plan in three ways, each forced by a review that proved the plan +would have broken a working request: + +1. **Bounding is post-serialization, not a byte budget.** A step is one blob shared + with the call's arguments, text, and framing, so `toolCallStep` serializes and + re-serializes with fewer images (oldest dropped first) until it fits the live + `cursorBlobMaxEntryBytes()`. +2. **Placeholders are capped to the legacy string length.** A longer replacement text + could itself push a previously admissible step past the ceiling. +3. **Consecutive text is newline-joined into one item**, as the legacy encoding did. + Emitting one protobuf item per part added framing that overflowed at the boundary. + +The net invariant, verified by two independent reviewers across 300 adversarial +probes: **a tool result with no images serializes byte-identically to the +pre-feature encoding.** + +### Why 030 did not ship + +A live probe spawned `xai/grok-4.6` and `cursor/grok-4.6` as subagents on the same +edit task. Both edited the file and both reported using `apply_patch`. The symptom +this phase was written to fix did not reproduce, so no code was written. The +measurement cycle in `030` stands, and the phase closes NOOP unless the user +supplies a failing case. Note the probe did not isolate the top-level freeform +surface — the cursor agent reached `apply_patch` through code mode — so this is +"not reproduced", not "proven absent".