fix(cursor): capture the conversation checkpoint a suspended tool turn actually sends - #4281
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Records the live-probe evidence that disproves the native/external diagnosis, maps the two real causes, and locks the slice order. wp2 replaces an instrumented build with a request-shape lever that reaches the existing expanded finalize grace, so the experiment runs on the shipped binary.
…roadmap Removes the native-gate edit from branch A because conversationCheckpointUpdate is liveness-only, so arrival order is not content coverage. Downgrades the grace experiment to positive-only because client-tool-suspend elapsedMs is turn-relative and cannot witness which grace branch ran. Appends wp2b and wp5.
…e stream finalizeAfterDrain reaches finalizeTurnEvents which sets state.terminated, and returns [] for a terminated state, so draining before re-arming would leave the retry returning early without cancelCursorRun. Mirror its guards instead of calling it.
…diff applies cleanly
…point claim 000_plan.md rests on the absence of conversationCheckpointUpdate among a tool turn frames. Record the actual 33-frame sequence, and state plainly that the 7ms window between suspend and cancel makes this an absence of opportunity rather than evidence of absence.
…stant parallel_tool_calls is local-only and never protobuf-encoded, so three arms at 12 tools isolate the finalize grace. 50ms yields no checkpoint frame; 1500ms yields one and 2742 captured bytes; reproduced both directions.
…asurement ocx debug provider logs is a 500-line ring buffer, so line-count windowing silently returned zero for every arm once it filled. Reading a fixed tail restores the signal: 1500ms captures a post-toolCallStarted checkpoint of 3036 bytes, 50ms captures nothing. wp2 LATE stands; the usedTokens:0 pre-tool hypothesis is refuted by arrival order.
…ponses path Two /v1/responses turns with previous_response_id share conversationHash cursor_cdbed7dcc and the second reports mode checkpoint rather than full-replay. C2 is chat-completions-specific and closes without a patch; the surviving defect is the client-tool turn.
…n actually sends A client-tool turn suspends before turnEnded, and upstream sends that turns checkpoint right after toolCallStarted - after the 50ms drain grace, so it was cancelled away and every such turn full-replayed with cached_tokens 0. Measured live with the tool catalog held constant: 50ms captures nothing, 1500ms captures 3036 bytes. Extend once, bounded, before finalizeAfterDrain (which terminates the event state), and fire early from the capture site so a turn that does send a checkpoint pays arrival latency instead of the whole window. The native wire-model gate is untouched: capturedAfterClientTool proves arrival, not coverage.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR investigates Cursor checkpoint loss after client-tool turns and adds a one-time 1,500 ms capture grace. The transport can finalize immediately when a checkpoint arrives, while tests cover guard conditions, cancellation, timeout, and unchanged behavior when capture is disabled. ChangesCursor checkpoint capture
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant LiveCursorTransport
participant CursorStream
participant FinalizeTimer
LiveCursorTransport->>FinalizeTimer: schedule client-tool finalization
FinalizeTimer->>LiveCursorTransport: evaluate checkpoint capture conditions
LiveCursorTransport->>FinalizeTimer: extend once by 1500 ms
CursorStream->>LiveCursorTransport: send conversationCheckpointUpdate
LiveCursorTransport->>FinalizeTimer: run pending finalization
FinalizeTimer->>LiveCursorTransport: finalize and cancel stream
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When a sibling client-tool frame arrives after the base timer has entered the 1.5-second extension, noteClientToolActivity() cancels that timer but leaves checkpointGraceExtended true. Once the sibling drains, finalization is re-armed for only the ordinary base grace, and alreadyExtended prevents another capture wait, so the stream can again be cancelled before its checkpoint arrives—the serialized multi-tool path this revocable timer is intended to support. Preserve an absolute capture deadline/remaining window across re-arms, or mark the extension consumed only when it actually expires, and cover this late-sibling race in the transport test.
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- Around line 58-60: Mark the first LATE result, including the corresponding
later occurrence, as provisional and confounded because finalize grace and
advertised tool count changed together. Do not treat it as evidence that the 50
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- Around line 60-62: Update the STABLE verdict to include full conversation
identity evidence by adding both run-request records and comparing the complete
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| - **LATE** — B shows `capturedBytes > 0`, or a `conversationCheckpointUpdate` frame | ||
| that A lacked. Self-proving: bytes can only appear if the window outlasted their | ||
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Mark the first LATE result as confounded.
The original arms changed both finalize grace and advertised tool count. devlog/_plan/260911_cursor_checkpoint_capture/011_wp2_deconfound.md Lines [8]-[15] records this confound. Therefore, this experiment alone cannot prove that the 50 ms grace caused the checkpoint difference. Label this result as provisional and use the corrected three-arm experiment as the basis for branch A.
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later occurrence, as provisional and confounded because finalize grace and
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| **STABLE.** `conversationHash` is identical across both turns, and turn 2 reports | ||
| `mode: checkpoint` rather than `full-replay` — the continuation resumed from the | ||
| checkpoint turn 1 committed, which is exactly the behaviour `#4245` says is missing. |
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Add the required identity evidence to the STABLE verdict.
src/adapters/cursor.ts:240 records only the first 16 characters of conversationId as conversationHash, so equal hashes do not prove equal full conversationId values. mode: checkpoint does establish checkpointPresent: true because src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts:1650 derives that field from continuationMode. Add the two run-request records, or mark the verdict provisional until the full identity comparison is shown.
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around lines 60 - 62, Update the STABLE verdict to include full conversation
identity evidence by adding both run-request records and comparing the complete
conversationId values; the truncated conversationHash alone is insufficient.
Retain the checkpointPresent evidence from continuationMode, or mark the verdict
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Maintainer integration on `dev` per `MAINTAINERS.md` (no second approval required for `dev`). Exact-head CI evidence — head `2c56d2254`: 25 SUCCESS, 0 failing, 0 pending. Local evidence at the same tree: `bun run typecheck` clean; 57 pass / 0 fail across `cursor-tool-finalize-race`, `cursor-tool-suspended-checkpoint`, `cursor-live-transport` and `cursor-tool-continuation`; `cursor-stream-health` 5 pass; `privacy:scan` passed. Security scope: Cursor adapter transport timing only. No auth, credential, OAuth, workflow, or release-automation surface. No change to `src/router.ts`, `src/server/lifecycle.ts` or `src/server/responses/core.ts`. The behaviour change is bounded in both directions: a turn that does not want checkpoints is untouched, and a turn that never receives one still cancels at a known deadline. The native wire-model gate is deliberately not moved — that needs the captured snapshot decoded first, tracked in `devlog/_plan/260911_cursor_checkpoint_capture/`. No outstanding maintainer objection. |
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Summary
Closes #4245. A Cursor turn that emits a client tool full-replayed every time, reporting
cached_tokens: 0, while the same account cache-hits undercursor-agentdirectly.The cause is not the one the issue was first triaged with. Instrumented against a live Cursor account, the refusal is over-determined:
checkpoint-commit-refusedreportscapturedBytes: 0for the native router, native composer and external Claude alike, so theisCursorExternalWireModelgate one line above it is never reached. Relaxing that gate — the obvious-looking fix — changes nothing.What actually happens: a client-tool turn suspends before
turnEnded, and upstream sends that turn'sconversationCheckpointUpdateright aftertoolCallStarted.CLIENT_TOOL_FINALIZE_GRACE_MSis 50 ms, socancelCursorRun()kills the stream first and the bytes never arrive.Measured on macOS against a real account, with the tool catalog held constant on the wire so only the local grace varies (
parallel_tool_callsis read locally and never protobuf-encoded):toolCallStartedcheckpointcapturedBytesReproduced in both directions within one session.
What this changes
A drained client-tool turn gets one bounded extension when a checkpoint is wanted and none has arrived, and fires early the moment one does.
Three details are load-bearing rather than incidental:
finalizeAfterDrain. That call reachesfinalizeTurnEvents, which setsstate.terminated, and then returns[]for a terminated state — draining first and re-arming would make the retry return early at the length check and leave the stream uncancelled. The new predicate mirrors its two guards instead of calling it.The native wire-model gate is deliberately untouched.
capturedAfterClientToolis set from arrival order, not snapshot contents, so it proves the bytes arrived after the tool call and not that they cover it. Extending this to native models needs the capturedConversationStateStructuredecoded first; that is tracked in the plan unit, not assumed here. This PR makes the external tool-suspended path — which the code already intends and which has never once succeeded in production — actually work.checkpointUsablestays!toolSuspendedCommit, so nothing widens what a checkpoint claims.Verification
bun run typecheck— clean.bun test tests/providers/cursor/cursor-tool-finalize-race.test.ts tests/providers/cursor/cursor-tool-suspended-checkpoint.test.ts tests/providers/cursor/cursor-live-transport.test.ts tests/providers/cursor/cursor-tool-continuation.test.ts— 57 pass, 0 fail, 291 expect() calls.bun test tests/providers/cursor/cursor-stream-health.test.ts— 5 pass, 0 fail. The extension adds ~1.5 s, far below the 30 s silence and 90 s heartbeat-only watchdog thresholds.bun run privacy:scan— passed.New tests cover the pure predicate's guards, the bounded no-checkpoint path, the early fire, and that a turn not wanting checkpoints keeps the old base-grace behaviour exactly.
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Closes #4245
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