fix(cursor): stop grok-4.6 tool-result echo from poisoning later turns - #4929
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Grok-4.6 through Cursor often writes a real sentence and then pastes the replayed [Tool Result] envelope. The prefix sniffer only watches the opening bytes of a turn, so the echo reaches Codex, is stored as assistant text, and the next turn replays it — which primes the model to echo again. Strip whole-line echo envelopes from assistant root replay, remint the conversation for the next turn after a mid-stream echo on its own bounded allowance, prefer the retained thread remint override over a stale stored conversation id, and name Write as an unavailable neighboring-agent tool. The current send is never retried: the echo has already reached the client, and resending would be an uncertain replay. Conversations already poisoned still need a new task. Carries the work in #4900 onto current dev. That branch holds a pre-squash copy of #4875, which landed as ee28833 with review hardening the copy predates, so dev's version is authoritative for every shared file and only the increment is reapplied here. Co-authored-by: MerryEcho <xx59623633@163.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCursor now detects mid-stream tool-envelope echoes, preserves streamed output, filters echoed envelopes from replay text, and remints eligible conversations for later turns. Remint budgets are bounded and independent. Cursor guidance now includes the neighboring-agent ChangesCursor envelope echo recovery
Cursor neighboring-agent guidance
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CursorTransport
participant CursorMidstreamEchoObserver
participant createCursorAdapter
participant ThreadContinuity
participant resolveCursorConversationId
CursorTransport->>CursorMidstreamEchoObserver: stream assistant output
CursorMidstreamEchoObserver-->>createCursorAdapter: record envelope finding
createCursorAdapter->>ThreadContinuity: record scoped remint
ThreadContinuity-->>createCursorAdapter: allow or exhaust budget
createCursorAdapter->>resolveCursorConversationId: resolve next-turn conversation
resolveCursorConversationId-->>CursorTransport: use retained conversation
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리뷰 · 우선순위 77 / 80이 PR은 Cursor 쪽에서 grok-4.6이 진짜 문장을 쓴 뒤 고치는 축은 네 개입니다. (1) 예산 설계가 핵심입니다. #4875가 incomplete-tool remint에 상한을 둔 이유와 같습니다. 에코는 싸고 매 턴 반복될 수 있어서, 같은 카운터를 쓰면 incomplete-tool 회복 예산을 다 써 버립니다. 그래서 베이스는 지금 tip 라인 stripAssistantEchoedToolEnvelope - 빈 줄에서 끊기 때문에, 에코 본문 안에 빈 줄이 있으면 그 뒤 조각이 리플레이에 남을 수 있습니다. remint가 본방어라서 방향은 맞지만, 이미 독이 든 스레드는 여전히 새 태스크가 필요합니다. 경로 resolveCursorConversationId - remint override가 stored 경로 CURSOR_ENVELOPE_ECHO_REMINT_MAX - 상한 3에 도달하면 대화를 그대로 두고 경로 tool-guidance Write - 에코 루프와 직접 관련은 약하지만, grok이 Write를 찌르는 실측이 있으면 같은 PR에 넣는 게 맞습니다. 범위가 살짝 넓어 보이면 후속으로 빼도 됩니다. 경로 #4900 - 이 PR이 합류하면 dirty인 #4900은 메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점
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The unit test covers the filter; this covers the wiring. It also pins the bounded-strip behaviour end to end: the prose before AND after the echoed envelope survives into rootPromptMessagesJson while the envelope body does not. Placed in cursor-tool-continuation.test.ts because cursor-blob.test.ts sits exactly at its file-size-ratchet cap of 3657 lines and cannot take another line.
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| 'Shell commands use the Codex shell bridge tool shown in this turn\'s catalog (`shell_command` or `exec_command`) with JSON arguments like {"cmd":"..."}. The long `mcp_opencodex-responses_*` display name is the same tool. Prefer it over Cursor-native Shell.'; | ||
| const NEIGHBOR_AGENT_TOOL_NAMES = ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash", "LS"] as const; | ||
| const NEIGHBOR_AGENT_TOOL_NAMES = ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash", "LS", "Write"] as const; |
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Adding Write to NEIGHBOR_AGENT_TOOL_NAMES changes the generated unavailable-tool list, but existing assertions in tests/providers/cursor/cursor-tool-definitions.test.ts and tests/providers/cursor/cursor-blob.test.ts still require strings whose list ends with `LS`. The generated text now has , Write`` after that token, so those toContain assertions fail and the test suite cannot pass; update the expectations and cover the advertised-`Write` case.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L376-L379
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| // A mid-stream envelope echo has ALREADY reached the client — the prefix sniffer only | ||
| // watches the first bytes of a turn, and grok-4.6 writes a real sentence before pasting | ||
| // the envelope. It cannot be quarantined, so the recovery is the same as the | ||
| // incomplete-tool case: leave this turn alone and rotate the next turn's id, otherwise | ||
| // the stored echo is replayed and primes the model to echo again. |
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This changes the runtime behavior of the mapped src/adapters/ area but updates only structure/providers/cursor.md; structure/INDEX.md also maps this area to the runtime, byte-accounting, Responses transport, transport inventory, inbound compatibility, chat compatibility, and adapter-registry documents. Reconcile those mapped contracts in this change, or narrow the manifest mapping if they do not actually describe this area.
AGENTS.md reference: src/AGENTS.md:L11-L11
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| function isEchoMarkerLine(line: string): boolean { | ||
| return (ECHO_MARKERS as readonly string[]).includes(line.replace(/^[ \t]+/, "")); |
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When the model emits a marker such as [Tool Result] with trailing spaces, CursorMidstreamEchoObserver recognizes it via startsWith and remints the conversation, but this predicate removes only leading whitespace and therefore leaves the echoed envelope in root replay. The fresh conversation is immediately re-primed with the same poisoned text and repeated occurrences can exhaust the three-remint allowance; normalize trailing whitespace as well when testing a marker line.
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| .map(part => (part.type === "text" ? part.text : includeThinking && part.type === "thinking" ? part.thinking : undefined)) | ||
| .filter((value): value is string => typeof value === "string" && value.length > 0) | ||
| .join("\n"); | ||
| return stripAssistantEchoedToolEnvelope(raw); |
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If an assistant legitimately shows an envelope example—for example, a fenced block containing a line exactly equal to [Tool Result]—this unconditional replay filter deletes that marker and every subsequent nonblank line. Because assistantRootText applies it to all Cursor models rather than only known echo-corrupted output, the next turn receives a silently truncated conversation; restrict filtering to detected external-model echoes or make it aware of quoted/code content.
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Adding Write to NEIGHBOR_AGENT_TOOL_NAMES changes the generated guidance note, and these three assertions pin that note verbatim. Line-neutral replacements; no assertion is weakened and the negative cases still hold.
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In `@src/adapters/cursor.ts`:
- Line 593: Update the recovery flow around invalidateCursorCheckpoint and
remintConversationId to invalidate the current continuation reference and remove
checkpointRef from the continuation before reminting, rather than clearing only
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| if (sawMidstreamEnvelopeEcho && !sawIncompleteToolCall && envelopeEchoRemintScopeKey) { | ||
| if (recordCursorEnvelopeEchoRemint(envelopeEchoRemintScopeKey)) { | ||
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Invalidate and clear the current checkpoint before reminting. commitCapturedCheckpoint stores a new checkpoint for the current conversation. The recovery at src/adapters/cursor.ts:593 invalidates only inheritedCheckpointRef, while remintConversationId changes the conversation ID without clearing the new reference. The next non-isolated request can then return conversation_changed from resolveCursorCheckpoint and fall back to full replay. The stale reference is cleared only after that request starts.
Invalidate the current continuation reference and remove checkpointRef from the continuation before calling remintConversationId. Add a transport test that supplies captured checkpoint bytes and asserts that the echoed-turn checkpoint is cleared before the next turn.
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In `@src/adapters/cursor.ts` at line 593, Update the recovery flow around
invalidateCursorCheckpoint and remintConversationId to invalidate the current
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Preferring the retained thread override over a stored _cursorConversationId is right for a stale id from a second Responses chain, but a compaction turn also carries a thread owner and its own conversation id while never setting the isolate flag. Unconditionally preferring the override pulled compaction onto the parent conversation, which "compaction storage isolation preserves the stable thread override without relying on the isolate flag" in cursor-adapter.test.ts exists to prevent. Exclude compaction from the override lookup and pin the interaction with its own case.
Root replay only carries history on a tool-continuation turn, so the previous shape sent a plain user message and produced a system-only root prompt: the assertions could never have seen the assistant text they were checking. Give the turn a tool result so the assistant message is actually replayed. It also now asserts the GENUINE replayed envelope survives. The strip must remove the copy the model pasted into its own text without touching the tool-result envelope the adapter builds.
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Summary
Grok-4.6 through Cursor writes a real sentence and then pastes the replayed
[Tool Result]envelope.
CursorToolResultEchoSnifferonly watches the opening bytes of a turn, so a mid-messageecho is never seen: it reaches Codex, is stored as assistant text, and the next turn replays it,
which primes the model to echo again. That is the snowball reported in #4874 and still observed
after the incomplete-tool remint in #4875.
Four changes, each scoped to one part of that loop:
stripAssistantEchoedToolEnvelope), so thetranscript stops feeding itself. This applies only to assistant-role history; the envelopes the
adapter itself builds for
toolResultmessages are untouched._cursorConversationId, so a secondResponses chain in one Codex thread stops ping-ponging the rotated-away conversation.
Writejoins the unavailable neighboring-agent tool list, which Grok kept probing.Three scopes kept separate
Why the echo remint gets its own budget
devgained a bounded incomplete-tool remint allowance during #4875's review, precisely to stopunbounded conversation rotation. A mid-stream echo cannot be quarantined, so left uncapped a model
that echoes every turn would remint on every turn — the same failure that allowance was added to
prevent. It is a separate counter rather than a shared one because echoing is cheap and
repeatable while an incomplete client-tool stream is rare and structural; on one counter the cheap
failure would spend the allowance the other recovery depends on. When the incomplete-tool arm has
already reminted in the same turn, the echo arm does not rotate again.
The two bounded budgets now share one internal
createCursorRemintBudgethelper instead of asecond hand-copied map. The extracted code preserves the existing record/prune/LRU behaviour
exactly; the incomplete-tool budget's caps, TTL, and exported function names are unchanged.
Why the replay strip stops at a blank line
The envelope has no terminator we can recognise — it is a marker line plus arbitrary result text —
and the observed copies are not byte-exact (live probing caught a whitespace-spliced call id), so
matching against the replayed envelope is not available either. Truncating from the marker to the
end of the message was the alternative, and it discards a genuine answer whenever the model resumes
after the echo. The strip therefore starts at a whole-line marker and ends at the next blank line.
The tradeoff is stated in the code and in
structure/providers/cursor.md: an envelope whose pastedbody contains its own blank line leaves a remainder in replay. That is the safer direction to be
wrong in, because conversation remint is the primary defence and this filter only stops the
transcript from re-priming itself. Inline prose such as "the string [Tool Result] appeared"
survives, since only whole-line markers count.
Relationship to #4900
Carries #4900 onto current
devrather than rebasing it. That branch holds a pre-squash copy of#4875 plus one increment (
5702c8e4); #4875 landed ondevasee2883316095174824cfd2b02f569cbee7cd8ae0with review hardening the copy predates. All three conflicting files —
src/adapters/cursor.ts,tests/providers/cursor/cursor-adapter.test.ts, andstructure/providers/cursor.md— conflict forthat reason alone, so
devis authoritative for every shared hunk and only the increment isreapplied here.
structure/providers/cursor.mdis untouched by that increment, so its entireconflict was stale-copy residue.
The increment is reapplied with two changes rather than verbatim: the remint is routed through the
bounded budget described above (the original condition was written against the unbounded version
and would have bypassed both the cap and the
contextUsageStoreCheckpointsisolation), and thereplay strip is bounded at the blank line instead of truncating to the end of the message.
The conversation-id priority reorder is carried unchanged. It was reviewed and is correct:
rememberCursorThreadConversationis written only by the remint path incursor.ts, so the threadstore holds remint results and a disagreeing stored id is the pre-remint value.
Refs #4874. Does not close it: an already-poisoned conversation is still unrecovered.
Verification
Static only. This lane does not run the local suite, typecheck, build, install, or
ocx; a pastlocal run deleted real user data under
~/.opencodex. Evidence is source reasoning plus hosted CIon this head.
Traced rather than executed:
assistantRootText, so the[Tool Result]roots thatcursor-blob.test.ts,cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts, andcursor-repetition-breaker.test.tsassert on are built in thetoolResultbranch and areunaffected.
{ createTransport: factory as never }shape its passingneighbours in the same file already use, and
toolResultBodysupplies thetoolResultmessagethe mid-stream observer needs to arm on an external wire model.
stripAssistantEchoedToolEnvelope,CURSOR_ENVELOPE_ECHO_REMINT_MAX,cursorEnvelopeEchoRemintScopeKey,recordCursorEnvelopeEchoRemint, the twoclear*ForTestshelpers,lookupCursorThreadConversation, andrememberCursorThreadConversation.scripts/test-layout/layout.jsonandtests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.jsonneed no entry; both touched test files are alreadyregistered. Neither touched source file carries a
tests/fixtures/file-size-baseline.jsoncap.New coverage, in already-registered files:
cursor-envelope-echo-retry.test.ts— the strip keeps leading commentary, keeps a real answerwritten after the echo, ignores an inline marker mention, and empties a prefix-only envelope; a
mid-stream echo rotates the conversation and the next turn uses the new id while the echo still
reaches the client; the echo allowance is bounded at its cap and leaves the incomplete-tool
allowance untouched.
cursor-request-builder.test.ts— the thread remint override beats a stale stored id, andisolated helpers ignore it.
Not verified: no live Cursor traffic was run, so this does not claim grok-4.6 stops echoing. It
claims the echo no longer survives into the next turn's replay and no longer reuses the same
conversation, with rotation bounded.
Checklist
structure/providers/cursor.mdgains a"Mid-stream envelope echo" section covering the remint, its separate bounded allowance, the
replay strip and its stated tradeoff, and the conversation-id precedence.
credential, or network-boundary change; diagnostics keep logging only a truncated
conversation hash and the wire model, never content.
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Writeand avoid suggesting unavailable Cursor-native tools.Documentation