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fix(cursor): require a replayed call to precede the result it names - #2936

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  • A replayed Cursor tool result could be labelled with a tool call that runs later in history than
    the result itself. Measured on shipped dev with no patch, for both grok-4.6-high and
    composer-2.5, a result whose own output was EARLY-OUT was serialized as
    invoked: exec_command with {"cmd":"echo LATER"}. That is the mislabel toolCallsByCallId's own
    doc comment calls worse than no label, because nothing downstream can detect it — the index
    implemented the ambiguity half of that comment and not the ordering half, and fix(cursor): name the invocation inside a replayed tool result #2900 shipped it.
  • toolCallsByCallId now records each first binding's message index in a WeakMap side table, and a
    new callBefore helper returns a call only when it precedes the result being labelled. Positions are
    compared in full-history space: the root loop's i is already there, and a new knownCallsOffset
    re-bases the checkpoint suffix.
  • In conversationTurns the comparison position is knownCallsOffset + start + w — all three terms.
    start is historyMessageStart; dropping it re-creates the orphaned-result defect fix(cursor): index replayed tool calls from full history on the checkpoint path #2910 fixed on the
    checkpoint path, and passes every other assertion in the cursor suite. The loop moved from for…of to
    an indexed walk with an explicit if (!message) continue; so behaviour is otherwise identical.
  • Reachability is narrow: it needs a result serialized before its own call, with no id reuse. No live
    codex exec reproduction is claimed for the forward-reference ordering itself; the wire-level
    mislabel above was reproduced directly against the unpatched tree.
  • Design and audit record: devlog/_plan/260829_cursor_tool_continuation/060_phase7_positional_bound.md
    (live plan, seven audit rounds) and 050_phase6_native_turn_orphan.md (superseded, kept as record).

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  • bun x tsc --noEmit — 0 errors (local and on the Linux gate host at this exact head).
  • bun test tests/cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts tests/cursor-tool-continuation.test.ts tests/cursor-blob.test.ts
    — 129 pass / 0 fail (124 pre-existing plus 5 new assertions).
  • Full bun run test on the Linux gate host at head c7531ca8af798d43abe1c6df898bdfbb1adb754a.
  • bun run privacy:scan — passed.
  • Mutation-tested rather than assumed green: with no positional bound two of the new rows go red; with
    start dropped from the turn-path offset the checkpoint-plus-root-pruning row goes red; with the
    shipped fix all rows pass. That last row needs a >512 KiB message to force root pruning and asserts
    the turn step specifically, because the root path has no start term and hid the mutation.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved cursor tool-result matching across checkpointed and replayed conversation history.
    • Prevented results from being associated with later or ambiguous tool calls.
    • Preserved valid invocation details when older history is truncated.
    • Avoided emitting orphaned invocation details when no valid matching call exists.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for ordering, checkpoint continuation, history offsets, duplicate identifiers, and budget limits.

…n gaps

An independent final-gate review measured the record wrong on both numbers:
reverting only the call-site threading fails 3 of 6 assertions, not 2 of 5.
The sixth test was added after the table was written, and it fails against a
missing threading too -- with knownCalls undefined the suffix-only index names
echo SECOND for a result whose output is FIRST, the same wrong label by a
different route. Verified at 1241a8d: 16 pass / 3 fail.

Also records two pre-existing gaps the completeness table did not account for,
neither induced by the checkpoint cut: a fourth emission site in the
conversationTurns native branch that never consults knownCalls, and the two
builders gating on different predicates (cursorNeedsExternalToolContinuation
vs isCursorExternalWireModel), which disagree for composer-2.5 -- measured as
ROOT invoked=true, TURN_STEP invoked=false.

Docs only: the cosmetic indentation fix was dropped so this PR carries no src
change, since the hygiene gate reads a whitespace-only edit as behaviour.
The invocation-line index had no ordering constraint, so it would name a call
that runs LATER in history than the result being labelled. Measured on dev with
no patch, for both grok-4.6-high and composer-2.5: a result whose own output is
EARLY-OUT came out as invoked: exec_command with {"cmd":"echo LATER"}.

That is the failure toolCallsByCallId's own comment calls worse than no label,
because nothing downstream can detect it. The index implemented the ambiguity
half of that comment and not the ordering half, and #2900 shipped it.

toolCallsByCallId now records each first binding's message index in a WeakMap
side table, and callBefore returns a call only when it precedes the result.
Positions compare in full-history space: the root loop's i is already there,
and knownCallsOffset re-bases the checkpoint suffix. In conversationTurns the
position is knownCallsOffset + start + w -- all three terms, because start is
historyMessageStart and dropping it re-creates the #2910 orphan on the
checkpoint path.

Reachability is narrow: it needs a result serialized before its own call, which
requires no id reuse. No live codex-exec repro is claimed.

Five assertions added. Two go red without the bound; the checkpoint-plus-pruning
row goes red when start is dropped and had to assert the turn step specifically,
since the root path has no start term and hid the mutation.
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Cursor replay now tracks call positions in full-history coordinates. Root, turn, and checkpoint paths suppress invocation labels for calls that do not precede results. Tests cover ordering, ambiguity, checkpoint offsets, and turn-path rebasing.

Cursor invocation bound

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Position-bound design and scope
devlog/_plan/260829_cursor_tool_continuation_pairing/*
Planning documents define the native-turn gap, coordinate rules, ambiguity handling, budget behavior, model scope, and verification cases.
Full-history call indexing and replay wiring
src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts
Call indexing records first-binding positions and removes ambiguous entries. Root and turn replay paths use full-history offsets before matching calls to results.
Ordering and checkpoint regression coverage
tests/cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts
Tests verify that later calls are not named, valid earlier calls remain named, and checkpoint turn paths retain correct position calculations.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c7531

The change prevents tool results from being attributed to later calls, but one regression assertion should require the expected tool-result turn step so the test cannot pass without exercising that behavior. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on this minor test fix.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CursorHistory
  participant toolCallsByCallId
  participant ReplayBuilder
  CursorHistory->>toolCallsByCallId: Index calls with full-history positions
  CursorHistory->>ReplayBuilder: Pass checkpoint suffix offset
  ReplayBuilder->>toolCallsByCallId: Resolve result call by ID
  toolCallsByCallId-->>ReplayBuilder: Return call only when it precedes result
  ReplayBuilder-->>CursorHistory: Emit bounded invocation text
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이 PR은 지금 dev HEAD 6a907d2a3 (#2932, 사이드카와 루프 재시도에 새 연결 복구) 바로 위에서, Cursor가 예전에 실행한 도구 결과를 다시 그릴 때 틀린 호출 이름을 붙이던 구멍을 막는다. 미리보기 배포는 계획에 없고, types.ts/config.ts 분할과도 안 겹친다. #2900 이 결과 글 안에 호출 줄을 넣었고, #2903 이 인자 크기를 2 KiB로 잘랐고, #2910 이 체크포인트로 잘린 앞쪽 호출도 찾게 했다. 이번은 그 다음이다. 찾아 낸 호출이 정말 이 결과보다 앞에 있는 호출인지도 검사한다.

쉽게 말하면 이렇다. src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.tstoolCallsByCallId 는 도구 호출 id 로 첫 번째 호출만 기억한다. 같은 id 를 다른 호출이 쓰면 아예 지운다. 틀린 이름을 붙이는 대신, 이름을 안 붙이겠다는 뜻이다. 그 설명은 함수 주석에 이미 있다. 그런데 코드는 애매하면 빼기만 했고, 결과가 호출보다 앞에 있으면 빼기는 안 했다. 주석은 결과는 호출 뒤에 온다고 가정만 했다. 가정이지, 검사가 아니다.

작성자가 고치지 않은 지금 dev 에서 재보니, 결과 본문은 EARLY-OUT 인데 줄에는 나중 명령의 호출 이름이 붙었다. grok-4.6-highcomposer-2.5 둘 다 그랬다. 틀린 이름은 모델이 알아챌 수 없어서, 이름 없는 것보다 더 나쁘다. 이게 #2900 이 넣은 동작이고, 주석이 경고한 바로 그 실패다.

고치는 방법은 위치다. 인덱스가 각 첫 묶음의 메시지 번호를 WeakMap 옆에 적어 둔다. 맵 반환 타입을 바꾸면 호출하는 곳이 넷이나 되어서, 옆 테이블로 둔 것이다. 새 callBefore 는 그 번호가 결과 번호보다 작을 때만 호출을 돌려준다. 같거나 뒤면 이름을 안 붙인다. 번호는 전체 대화 기준이다. 루트 루프의 i 는 이미 그 기준이고, 체크포인트는 knownCallsOffset 으로 접미사 시작을 더한다. 턴 루프는 knownCallsOffset + start + w 세 값을 다 더한다. starthistoryMessageStart 다. 루트가 너무 커서 앞부분을 잘라 내면 0이 아니다.

이 덧셈이 이번의 핵심이다. start 만 빼도 타입은 통과하고, 커서 테스트 거의 전부와 이번 새 줄의 나머지까지 초록으로 남는다. 그런데 체크포인트로 앞을 자르고 루트도 같이 자르면, 턴 발자국에서 호출 이름이 빠진다. #2910 이 막은 구멍(호출은 앞에 있는데 이름을 못 붙임)이 체크포인트 길에서 다시 열린다. 루트 길은 historyMessageStart 를 루프가 끝난 뒤에야 받으니까, 루트만 보면 이 실수를 못 잡는다. 그래서 마지막 테스트는 일부러 큰 메시지를 넣어 루트를 자르고, 접미사 시작도 1로 두고, 턴 발자국만 본다. 본문이 말한 다섯 번 실패하고 나서야 구분되는 고정장치가 그것이다.

범위는 솔직하다. 결과가 자기 호출보다 먼저 직렬화되면 재현되고, id 를 다시 쓰지 않아도 된다. 산 채로 codex exec 한 재현은 없다고 본문에 적혀 있다. 가짜가 아니다. 흔한 모양은 호출이 결과보다 앞이지만, 틀린 이름은 아래에서 걸러지지 않으니 인코더가 그 모양을 받으면 지금 배송 중인 길로 나간다. 네이티브 턴 분기에서 pendingToolCalls 에 없으면 빈 봉투를 내는 길(050이 말하던 구멍)은 이번 패치에 넣지 않았다. composer-2.5 는 루트 문이 cursorNeedsExternalToolContinuation 이고 턴 문은 isCursorExternalWireModel 이라서, 루트에는 호출 줄이 있고 턴에는 없을 수 있다. 둘 다 계획에 적혀 있고 이번에는 억지로 맞추지 않았다. 맞다. 그건 네이티브 모델이 재개할 때 무엇을 볼지 문제라서, 위치 묶음과는 다른 일이다.

테스트는 cursor-tool-result-invocation 파일에 다섯 개를 더 넣었다. 위치 묶음이 없으면 앞쪽 결과 두 줄이 빨개지고, start 를 빼면 체크포인트와 루트 자르기 줄이 빨개진다고 한다. 작성자 로컬 검증은 초록이고, 깃허브 검사는 일부만 끝났으며 본 테스트와 macos 는 아직 돌아가는 중이다.

경로/심볼 - tests/cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts 의 the turn step is bounded too - 턴 발자국을 못 찾으면 if (step) 안에서 아무 것도 검사하지 않고 그냥 통과한다. 바로 아래 체크포인트+자르기 테스트는 expect(step).toBeDefined() 로 잠갔다. 이 줄만 빠져 있다. 지금 고정장치에서는 Tool Result 접두사가 나오니 아마 살아 있지만, 나중에 인코더가 접두사를 바꾸면 이 테스트는 조용히 쓸모가 없어진다. EARLY-OUT 이 있는 줄을 찾고, 그 줄이 있어야 한다고 한 줄만 더 넣으면 된다.
경로/심볼 - 새 앞지름 테스트가 grok-4.6-high 만 본다 - 본문과 060 계획은 composer-2.5 루트에서도 같은 오표기를 측정했다고 한다. 루트 문은 cursorNeedsExternalToolContinuation 이라 composer-2.5 도 그 길을 탄다. 그런데 새 테스트는 grok 한 모델만 잠근다. grok 가 대표이긴 하다. 다만 측정한 두 번째 모델을 한 줄로라도 잠그지 않으면, 나중에 루트 문이 갈라져도 이 파일은 초록으로 남는다.
경로/심볼 - callPositions WeakMap - 맵을 복사하면 위치가 사라지고 callBefore 는 항상 이름을 안 붙인다. 지금 체크포인트와 두 빌더는 같은 맵 객체를 그대로 넘기니까 괜찮다. 나중에 누군가 방어적으로 복사하면 호출 줄이 통째로 빠지고, 테스트가 그걸 오표기가 아니라 이름 없음으로만 볼 수 있다. 주석에 이 맵 객체를 복사하지 말라고 한 줄 있으면 충분하다.
경로/심볼 - conversationTurns 네이티브 pendingToolCalls else (지금 HEAD 대략 1021-1027행) - 사용자 말이 호출과 결과 사이에 끼면 빈 봉투가 나간다. 050이 이 구멍을 적었고, 060은 위치 묶음보다 후순위로 미뤘다. 이번 PR의 버그가 아니다. 다만 머지 후에도 그 길은 그대로다. 짝 지어진 mcpToolCall 과 텍스트가 겹칠 수 있다는 측정이 이유다. 별 유닛으로 남겨야 한다.
경로/심볼 - 루트 문 cursorNeedsExternalToolContinuation vs 턴 문 isCursorExternalWireModel - composer-2.5 에서 ROOT invoked=true, TURN_STEP invoked=false 로 측정된 비대칭이다. #2900 때부터 있었고 040에 기록되어 있다. 이번이 고칠 일이 아니다. 네이티브 재개 길을 끝까지 재보기 전에는 문을 맞추지 말라는 판단은 맞다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • 남은 본 테스트와 macos, gates 가 이 헤드에서 초록이 된 뒤에 머지할지
  • 턴 앞지름 테스트의 빈 if (step) 를 이 PR에서 toBeDefined 로 고칠지, 후속으로 둘지
  • composer-2.5 앞지름 한 줄을 이 PR에 더 넣을지
  • 네이티브 pendingToolCalls 미스와 composer-2.5 문 비대칭을 다음 유닛으로 둘지(권장: 다음으로 둠)

너의 추천
남은 검사가 이 헤드에서 초록이면 dev 로 머지하세요. #2900 이 주석으로만 막아 둔 오표기를, 전체 대화 좌표의 세 항 덧셈으로 막았고, 잘못된 좌표가 초록으로 살아남는 길까지 테스트가 빨갛게 증명한다. types/config 분할과 무관하니 리베이스 대신 닫기 대상이 아니다. 턴 테스트의 빈 if (step) 는 머지 전에 한 줄 고치면 더 단단하고, 없어도 앞지름 루트 테스트가 결함을 잡는다. 050 네이티브 빈 봉투와 composer-2.5 문 비대칭은 닫지 말고 다음 유닛으로 두세요. 머지 후 스냅샷에 cursorCallPositionalBound 정도만 적으면 된다.

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if (step) {
expect(step).not.toContain("invoked:");
expect(step).not.toContain("echo LATER");
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Require the expected turn step.

At Line 491, this test passes when the encoder drops the [Tool Result] turn step. That is a turn-replay regression, not proof that the future invocation label was suppressed. Assert that step exists before checking its content.

Proposed fix
-    if (step) {
-      expect(step).not.toContain("invoked:");
-      expect(step).not.toContain("echo LATER");
-    }
+    expect(step).toBeDefined();
+    if (!step) throw new Error("expected a tool-result turn step");
+    expect(step).not.toContain("invoked:");
+    expect(step).not.toContain("echo LATER");

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if (step) {
expect(step).not.toContain("invoked:");
expect(step).not.toContain("echo LATER");
}
expect(step).toBeDefined();
if (!step) throw new Error("expected a tool-result turn step");
expect(step).not.toContain("invoked:");
expect(step).not.toContain("echo LATER");
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In `@tests/cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts` around lines 491 - 494, Require
the expected turn step before validating its contents: update the assertion
around step in the cursor/tool result invocation test so a missing step fails,
then retain the checks that it excludes “invoked:” and “echo LATER”.

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Reviewed exact head c7531ca8af798d43abe1c6df898bdfbb1adb754a against dev@6a907d2a3c6496935ec87d86240a6a12b0ffa00b.

The production direction is correct. Recording call positions in full-history space closes the forward-reference mislabel without losing legitimate call-before-result pairing, and the knownCallsOffset + historyMessageStart + localIndex composition is correct on the checkpoint/pruned-turn path. Local exact-head validation passed under isolated homes: the three focused Cursor suites are 129/129 (3083 expectations), bun x tsc --noEmit passes, and git diff --check is clean. Hosted Linux shards, package/keyring jobs, React Doctor, and CodeRabbit also completed successfully; the macOS aggregate was still pending at review time.

I am requesting one small but real regression-test fix before approval. CodeRabbit's finding in tests/cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts is correct: the test named “the turn step is bounded too” wraps every assertion in if (step), so it passes when the turn step is missing entirely. That makes the specific turn-path guarantee vacuous even though this PR changes conversationTurns independently of the root path. Require step with expect(step).toBeDefined() first, then assert that it excludes invoked: and echo LATER (using a non-null assertion or an explicit guard after the expectation). Keep the existing checkpoint-plus-pruning positive test.

Once that deterministic assertion is pushed, rerun the same focused suites and exact-head hosted CI. I found no remaining production-code blocker on this head.

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