fix(cursor): quarantine textual TOOL_CALL markers off the text channel - #4815
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#2305 only renamed the display alias inside the marker, so the synthetic frame still reached Codex as assistant text and few-shot-mimicked later calls. Strip complete markers, promote advertised names onto the real tool-call path, and hold split openers across deltas. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCursor text deltas now quarantine ChangesCursor textual tool-call quarantine
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Cursor
participant protobuf-events.ts
participant text-toolcall.ts
participant ToolCallPath
Cursor->>protobuf-events.ts: Send textDelta
protobuf-events.ts->>text-toolcall.ts: Drain pending text and new chunk
text-toolcall.ts-->>protobuf-events.ts: Return text, pending marker, and parsed calls
protobuf-events.ts->>ToolCallPath: Emit advertised tool-call events
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리뷰 · 우선순위 74 / 80이 PR은 Cursor 모델이 진짜 현재 동작 갈래는 테스트로 꽤 잘 잡혀 있습니다. 광고된 이름 승격, 미광고 strip, 두 조각 delta hold, finalize drop이 라인 / 심볼 수준의 메모입니다.
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| state.textToolCallSeq = (state.textToolCallSeq ?? 0) + 1; | ||
| const callId = `textcall_${state.textToolCallSeq}`; | ||
| out.push(...recordToolCall(state, callId, call.name)); | ||
| if (state.openToolCalls.has(callId)) { | ||
| out.push(...commitToolCall(state, callId, normalizeJsonText(call.args, advertised ?? call.name, state))); |
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When Cursor emits a textual marker in addition to the corresponding real toolCall* frame—a scenario explicitly documented in text-toolcall.ts—this path assigns the marker an unrelated textcall_N ID and commits it immediately. The later real frame retains its upstream call ID, so completedToolCalls cannot correlate them and the bridge emits two calls, potentially executing a shell command or other side-effecting tool twice. Suppress or reconcile the promoted marker with the structural call before emitting it.
AGENTS.md reference: src/AGENTS.md:L19-L19
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| if (!match || match.index === undefined) { | ||
| text += combined.slice(cursor); | ||
| return { text, pending: "", calls }; |
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When a streaming boundary falls inside the literal opener, such as "before [TOOL_CA" followed by "LL]grep[ARGS]{}", the first chunk has no full regex match and this branch emits the partial opener as text while clearing pending; the second chunk can therefore never be recognized as a tool call. Since textDelta boundaries are arbitrary, this leaves the exact marker leak that the quarantine is intended to prevent. Retain the longest trailing substring that is a prefix of [TOOL_CALL] and prepend it to the next chunk.
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| if (combined[jsonStart] !== "{") { | ||
| // Marker without a JSON object: drop the opener so it cannot leak, keep scanning. | ||
| cursor = afterOpen; | ||
| continue; |
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When a marker's arguments do not start with an object, for example [TOOL_CALL]grep[ARGS][] tail, this branch advances only past [TOOL_CALL]; the next scan then emits grep[ARGS][] tail as assistant text. That contradicts the quarantine contract for malformed markers and still exposes pseudo-protocol syntax to later turns. Consume the malformed marker payload to a defined boundary instead of resuming immediately after the opener.
AGENTS.md reference: src/AGENTS.md:L19-L19
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In `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-events.ts`:
- Around line 1269-1273: Update the textual tool-call handling around
recordToolCall and commitToolCall to track a normalized name-and-arguments
fingerprint, allowing a subsequent structural toolCallStarted/toolCallCompleted
sequence with the same fingerprint to be suppressed while preserving independent
repeated calls. When suppressing the duplicate, close its openToolCalls entry
and release the associated translator-budget state; add regression coverage for
a textual marker followed by matching structural frames.
- Around line 1267-1268: Update the textual-marker promotion guard in
mapCursorProtobufServerMessage so promotion requires an explicitly present
clientToolNames catalog and an advertised name; keep
resolveAdvertisedClientToolName’s absent-catalog behavior unchanged for
structural calls. Add a regression test using createCursorProtobufEventState
without clientToolNames that verifies a complete marker produces no promoted
tool call.
In `@src/adapters/cursor/text-toolcall.ts`:
- Around line 83-85: Update the no-match branch in the text-toolcall parser
around opener.exec() to detect the longest trailing suffix that
case-insensitively prefixes "[TOOL_CALL]"; emit only text before that suffix and
retain the suffix in pending for reconstruction by the next delta. Preserve
existing behavior when no partial opener exists, and add a regression test that
splits the opener across deltas.
- Around line 102-105: Update the malformed-marker branch in the text-toolcall
parser so that when the character at jsonStart is not an opening brace, it
discards the remainder of the malformed marker segment instead of resetting
cursor to afterOpen and emitting it as assistant text. Preserve normal scanning
for valid markers and the adapter’s existing event, streaming, tool-call,
cancellation, and error behavior.
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| if (!match || match.index === undefined) { | ||
| text += combined.slice(cursor); | ||
| return { text, pending: "", calls }; |
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Hold a partial [TOOL_CALL] opener instead of emitting it.
If a delta ends with a prefix such as "before [TOOL_", opener.exec() returns no match. Lines 84-85 then emit the prefix as assistant text and clear pending. The next delta cannot reconstruct or promote the marker.
Before this return, detect the longest trailing suffix that is a case-insensitive prefix of [TOOL_CALL]. Emit only the preceding text and store that suffix in pending. Add a regression test that splits the opener itself.
Proposed fix
const match = opener.exec(combined);
if (!match || match.index === undefined) {
- text += combined.slice(cursor);
- return { text, pending: "", calls };
+ const remaining = combined.slice(cursor);
+ const partialLength = trailingToolCallPrefixLength(remaining);
+ text += partialLength > 0 ? remaining.slice(0, -partialLength) : remaining;
+ return {
+ text,
+ pending: partialLength > 0 ? holdOrDrop(remaining.slice(-partialLength)) : "",
+ calls,
+ };
}As per coding guidelines, “Adapter changes must preserve the internal event contract, streaming behavior, tool calls, cancellation, error mapping, and image handling relevant to that adapter.”
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In `@src/adapters/cursor/text-toolcall.ts` around lines 83 - 85, Update the
no-match branch in the text-toolcall parser around opener.exec() to detect the
longest trailing suffix that case-insensitively prefixes "[TOOL_CALL]"; emit
only text before that suffix and retain the suffix in pending for reconstruction
by the next delta. Preserve existing behavior when no partial opener exists, and
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Requesting changes on exact head 407bf3ce56c4c153a991ef2a89764cec81ee643a.
The open review findings are real correctness blockers. A textual marker is emitted immediately with a synthetic textcall_N id, so if Cursor also emits the corresponding structural tool frame the two cannot be correlated and the client can execute a side-effecting tool twice. The parser also emits split [TOOL_CALL] opener prefixes as text and leaks the remainder of malformed markers, defeating the quarantine boundary.
Do not merge until textual/structural representations are deduplicated before either becomes an executable event, partial opener suffixes are held across arbitrary delta boundaries, malformed marker remainders are quarantined to a defined terminal boundary, and promotion requires a non-empty advertised client-tool catalog. Add exact regressions for duplicate structural+text emission, every opener split point, malformed non-object arguments, and tools-disabled/unknown-name controls. This head is also 22 commits behind current dev; rebase and rerun exact-head CI after the parser is corrected.
…backs Deferring textual tool calls to finalizeTurnEvents made the transport's END_STREAM fallback reachable with work still buffered. That path finalizes only a turn it can see is unfinished, and a turn whose entire visible text was a stripped marker looks empty from the outside, so the fallback call would be dropped exactly when the marker was the turn's only content.
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[TOOL_CALL]name[ARGS]{…}insidetextDelta. After the display-alias rename the synthetic frame still reached Codex as assistant text, and later turns few-shot-mimicked it as an inert call.text-toolcalldrain strips complete markers from visible text and promotes advertised names onto the existing atomic tool-call path. Unadvertised or malformed markers are dropped, never rewritten back into visible text.finalizeTurnEventsand flushed only when the turn produced no real client-tool frame. Suppressing later promotions would not be enough, because a promoted call cannot be retracted and the dangerous ordering is marker-first. This matters: upstream Codex executes two calls with different ids even when name and arguments match (stream_events_utils.rsbuilds one execution future per tool-call item, andskills_extension.rsasserts output for both ids), so there is no upstream de-duplication to fall back on.[TOOL_CALL]foo[ARGS]not-jsonresumed scanning before the name and leakedfoo[ARGS]…; it now resumes after the tag. A turn with no advertised tool set promoted every name; it now promotes none. Malformed arguments stay fail-closed and record a diagnostic that never includes the arguments, and the cap is measured in real UTF-8 bytes rather than UTF-16 units.END_STREAMfallback reachable with work still buffered, so both terminal conditions inlive-transport.tsnow treat buffered fallbacks as unfinished work. Without it a turn whose entire visible text was a stripped marker looks empty from the outside and loses its only call.dev). Layer 2 persists observedtokenDetails.maxTokensfor the overflow/429 size prior.Verification
tests/providers/cursor/cursor-protobuf-events.test.ts: a real frame plus a textual echo in one turn yields exactly one client tool call; a marker split across deltas in a turn that also has a real frame promotes nothing; malformed arguments promote nothing and leak no text; a hold past the cap leaks no tail; a non-JSON[ARGS]payload leaks no text; no advertised set promotes nothing.devlog/_plan/260917_l5_cursor_stabilization/010_u1_text_toolcall_contract.md.Checklist