fix(adapters): preserve Grok request scope and tool-result continuations

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Summary

Grok requests could fail after tool normalization or lose useful continuation scope. xAI rejected requests whose last tool was removed while tool_choice remained. Cursor code-mode guidance also asserted that an exec cell had emitted output even when it had discarded the nested helper's return value. After compaction, a generated handoff summary could be repeated as the current user request, and repetition maxima from an older user turn could label a new turn as stalled.

• Omit empty-catalog xAI auto/none selectors after normalization, preserving forced function selectors. Repair incomplete custom-tool IDs only when a complete (call_id, name, input) tuple supplies a stable identity.
• Keep the latest actual user request in Cursor external continuations. Canonical summaries, opaque-compaction notes, and standalone ambient-browser context remain in history without becoming a new request. Blank/image-only real user input stops the backward search.
• Make copyable code-mode examples emit their returned observations. Empty output is not proof of a failed operation; guidance calls for a read-only state check instead of replaying a completed side effect. It no longer claims output was already emitted.
• Reset repetition maxima at user/developer boundaries, including a fresh active user action. Counts provide conditional advice and do not classify legitimate polling as a failure. Tool calls and observations remain intact; the adapter does not execute or suppress client actions based on the count.
• Preserve bounded root replay/checkpoint fallback and UTF-8 validation from the earlier commits. Update provider contracts and adapter documentation.

The new regression file exercises wire-level request scope, caller-history preservation, executable examples, result-normalization idempotence, and a 96-case matrix across 1–16 summary boundaries, retry modes, and successful/failed/empty observations. These are deterministic adapter contracts, not a proof that a probabilistic model will never repeat work or match xAI's answers.

Verification

• bun test tests/providers/cursor: 1,322 passed, 0 failed, 67 files.
• New regression set initially reproduced 13 failures / 4 passes before the fix. Final coverage includes 20 cases; the finite history matrix covers 96 combinations.
• Layout/file-size checks: 27 passed, 0 failed.
• bun run typecheck, bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan: passed.
• Documentation: frozen-lockfile install and build passed, 497 pages.
• Compatible installed 2.49 subset: 165 focused tests passed, typecheck passed; two source files were backed up, installed, and hash-verified. Restart was accepted with zero active requests; replacement health was verified.
• Live Cursor High fixture checks: empty-result recovery and polling across two synthetic compactions both completed through the restarted service, with no missing emissions or repeated fixture writes. Only whitelisted fixture calls were interpreted; generated JavaScript was never executed. The old version also passed these short fixtures, so no live improvement percentage or long-session parity claim is made.
• bun scripts/test.ts --changed=e8e179ffa was not green: four Claude discovery failures were reported; the run was interrupted with tests/server/api-debug.test.ts still running after 366 seconds. On both the pre-change baseline and this patch, standalone Claude discovery reproduced the same three failures (10 passed / 3 failed), while standalone API debug passed 13/13. The additional parallel-run failure and stall remain unresolved; this is not a full-suite pass.
• Earlier small xAI/Cursor fixtures cover bounded request compatibility only. They do not establish identical model weights, long-running agent quality, or comparable token accounting.

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The PR changes Cursor external continuation replay, stored-root token estimation, checkpoint recovery, and Grok-specific guidance. It also adds xAI-specific tool-choice normalization and deterministic custom_tool_call ID repair with diagnostics.

Changes

Cursor continuation and replay

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Continuation replay and guidance src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts, tests/providers/cursor/cursor-blob.test.ts, tests/providers/cursor/cursor-tool-continuation.test.ts, tests/providers/cursor/cursor-live-transport.test.ts	External replayed tool results can use the user wire role. Continuations include current-request guidance and, for Grok 4.6 code-mode continuations, guidance against re-emitting completed exec output.
Stored-root estimation and checkpoint recovery src/adapters/cursor/native-exec.ts, src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts, tests/providers/cursor/cursor-blob.test.ts, tests/providers/cursor/cursor-live-transport.test.ts	Stored blobs can be decoded for estimation without hydration or served-byte accounting. Checkpoint requests rebuild as full replays after envelope exhaustion instead of throwing.
xAI request normalization and ID repair src/adapters/openai-responses/passthrough.ts, src/adapters/openai-responses/request-strips.ts, src/adapters/xai-web-search.ts, tests/responses/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts	xAI requests omit auto or none tool choices when no tools are declared. Eligible missing custom_tool_call IDs receive deterministic SHA-256-derived IDs. Diagnostics cover unreadable tool inspection and repair failures.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CursorRequestBuilder
  participant StoredBlobStore
  participant CursorModel
  CursorRequestBuilder->>StoredBlobStore: read stored root blob for estimation
  StoredBlobStore-->>CursorRequestBuilder: return decoded root text or null
  CursorRequestBuilder->>CursorModel: send replayed observations and current-request guidance
  CursorModel-->>CursorRequestBuilder: continue the current request

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Possibly related PRs

• lidge-jun/opencodex#1228: Changes the same Cursor trailing tool-result continuation and root replay path.
• lidge-jun/opencodex#2651: Shares external replay, checkpoint handling, and stored-blob behavior.
• lidge-jun/opencodex#4900: Changes the same Grok tool-result continuation flow.

Suggested labels: bug

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 40fa7

Some xAI requests can still be rejected after tool normalization, while rare Cursor replay and repaired tool-call inputs can produce incorrect continuation behavior. Resolve these request-construction defects before merging.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve the corrective replay role when restoring arguments. · protobuf-request.ts:1110-1113

src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts:1110-1113
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the corrective replay role when restoring arguments.

Line 429 creates a corrective external tool-result root with wire role "user". If its invocation arguments were clipped and there is spare budget, this code rebuilds the root with toolResultRootPayload(widened), whose default role is "assistant". The restored replay therefore changes tool evidence from user-role to assistant-role only on this branch.

Pass entry.toolResultRole to toolResultRootPayload() and retain it in the replacement candidate. Add a regression test for an external retry with clipped arguments and enough budget to restore them.

Proposed fix

     const candidate = rootBlobCandidate(
-      toolResultRootPayload(widened),
+      toolResultRootPayload(widened, entry.toolResultRole),
       "toolResult",
-      { messageIndex: entry.messageIndex, text: widened },
+      { messageIndex: entry.messageIndex, text: widened, toolResultRole: entry.toolResultRole },
     );

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In `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts` around lines 1110 - 1113, Update the
corrective replay branch around rootBlobCandidate to pass entry.toolResultRole
into toolResultRootPayload and retain it on the replacement candidate,
preserving the original wire role when clipped arguments are restored. Add a
regression test covering an external retry with clipped arguments and sufficient
budget for restoration.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/adapters/cursor/native-exec.ts`:
- Line 518: Update the decoder used by the root estimation path around the entry
data decode to use fatal UTF-8 behavior, so malformed bytes throw and flow
through the existing catch that returns null and emits blob-estimate-unreadable.
Add coverage for an invalid sequence such as Uint8Array.of(0xc3, 0x28), while
preserving valid UTF-8 handling.

In `@src/adapters/openai-responses/request-strips.ts`:
- Around line 182-202: Update the repaired-ID digest serialization in the custom
tool-call handling branch guarded by repairCustomCallIds to use an injective
representation of call_id, name, and input, such as a JSON array or explicit
length prefixes, instead of NUL delimiters. Add a focused regression test
covering the provided NUL-containing tuples and assert that their repaired ctc_
IDs differ.

In `@src/adapters/xai-web-search.ts`:
- Around line 109-113: Apply the empty-catalog omission rule after all selector
rewrites and normalization, not only to the incoming choice in the current
branch. Update the flow around normalizeToolGroup() and the branches producing
tool_choice "none" so the final request omits tool_choice whenever no tools
remain, including forced web-search and cached-only cases.

In `@tests/responses/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts`:
- Around line 4858-4864: Add tuple-sensitivity assertions to the test “repairs a
missing custom_tool_call id to a stable ctc_ digest” by creating variants that
independently change call_id, name, and input, then verifying each produces an
ID different from the baseline while preserving the existing format and
repeatability checks.

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In `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`:
- Around line 1110-1113: Update the corrective replay branch around
rootBlobCandidate to pass entry.toolResultRole into toolResultRootPayload and
retain it on the replacement candidate, preserving the original wire role when
clipped arguments are restored. Add a regression test covering an external retry
with clipped arguments and sufficient budget for restoration.

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리뷰 · 우선순위 56 / 80

이 PR은 xAI Responses와 Cursor 쪽 Grok 4.6이 같은 도구 턴에서 자주 깨지던 부분을 요청을 만드는 쪽에서 고칩니다. xAI는 도구 목록이 비었는데 tool_choice가 auto나 none이면 invalid-argument로 거절합니다. 그래서 그 두 값만 빼고, 강제 선택이나 additional_tools는 그대로 둡니다. Cursor 외부 모델 이어가기는 지금 사용자 요청만 보도록 안내를 붙이고, Grok 4.6 코드 모드에서는 exec 출력을 다시 글로 쓰지 말라고 적습니다. 빠진 custom_tool_call id는 ctc_ + sha256 앞부분으로 채우고, 체크포인트가 봉투 한도를 넘으면 전체 재생으로 바꿉니다. 베이스는 dev입니다. 단위 테스트는 393개 통과로 적혀 있고, 라이브 Grok 4.6 세션 복구는 아직 증명하지 않았다고 본문에 적혀 있습니다.

라인 - src/adapters/xai-web-search.ts normalizeToolChoice — 맨 앞에서 auto/none은 도구가 없으면 지웁니다. 그런데 그 아래 required이고 도구가 없으면 tool_choice를 "none"으로 바꿉니다. 웹서치 선택자를 지울 때도 "none"으로 바꿉니다. 그 "none"은 다시 지우는 코드를 안 탑니다. 도구 없는 요청이 required로 들어오면, 고친 뒤에도 xAI가 같은 이유로 거절할 수 있습니다. 테스트는 required를 도구가 있을 때만 봅니다.

라인 - src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts echo 재시도 경로 — 외부 모델에서 도구 결과 루트 역할을 "user"로 바꿉니다. 시스템 안내에는 관측값이라고 적지만, 와이어에서는 사용자 말처럼 보입니다. 도구 출력 안의 지시문이 사용자 요청처럼 읽힐 여지가 있습니다.

라인 - 같은 파일의 이어가기 액션 문장 — 지금 사용자 요청 전문과 안내 문장을 액션에 붙입니다. 요청이 길면 액션이 커지고, 스크린샷 라벨·코드 모드 안내와 같이 쌓입니다. 빈 요청은 안내를 빼는 테스트는 있습니다.

라인 - src/adapters/openai-responses/request-strips.ts stripItemIdsWhenUnstored — 이름과 주석은 예전처럼 store:false일 때 id를 지우는 함수입니다. 지금은 xAI일 때 custom_tool_call id를 만드는 일도 합니다. 동작은 테스트로 고정돼 있지만, 읽는 사람 기준으로는 한 함수에 두 일이 섞여 있습니다.

라인 - 본문 Verification — 로컬 tsc와 지정 테스트는 통과했다고 적혀 있습니다. 라이브 Cursor Grok 4.6 이어가기 복구는 증명하지 않았다고 스스로 적었습니다. CI의 resolve-pr은 이 글을 쓸 때 아직 끝나지 않았습니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

열려 있는 #5098은 같은 Grok 4.6 도구 결과 메아리 문제를 응답(스트림) 쪽에서 지웁니다. 이 PR은 요청을 만드는 쪽입니다. 겹치는 증상이지 같은 패치가 아니므로, 한쪽을 중복으로 닫을 필요는 없어 보입니다. 둘 다 넣을지, 순서를 정할지만 보면 됩니다. echo 재시도에서 도구 결과를 "user" 역할로 보내는 것이 Cursor 쪽 계약에 맞는지, 그리고 required→"none" 잔여가 실제로 라이브에서 나오는지 확인이 필요합니다. types.ts/config.ts 분할이나 미리보기 배포는 해당 없습니다.

너의 추천

normalizeToolChoice 끝에서 도구가 없는데 tool_choice가 "none"이면 그 키를 지우는 한 줄을 넣고, 도구 없는 required 케이스를 테스트에 추가한 뒤 머지하는 편이 좋습니다. Cursor 안내는 단위 테스트로 방향이 맞고, #5098과 같이 둬도 됩니다. 가능하면 짧은 라이브 Grok 4.6 도구 턴 한 번만 보면 본문이 비워 둔 구멍을 메웁니다. stripItemIdsWhenUnstored는 이번엔 그대로 두고, 나중에 수리 함수를 나누는 follow-up이면 충분합니다.

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Closing as superseded. The changes from this PR (head 5a99d4dc5958b96a81d5b9d502d890c5a1557739, by @twoimo) were carried with author credit into #5560, which was consolidated into #5608. #5608 merged to dev as 9579bbe. The carry was cherry-picked or reworked, not merged, so this branch's own commit history is not part of dev. I compared this head against current dev and found its behavior and tests present. That covers Grok request scope, tool-result continuation, exec-result and repetition handling, and the current-user-scope logic, which now lives in src/adapters/cursor/current-request.ts. The empty tool-choice omission part had already landed separately via #5376. The broader upstream no-progress issue #3506 stays open.

This fix is on dev only. It is not in the stable v2.63.0 release and will ship in a later release. Thank you for the contribution.