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Problem

When Cursor emits a standalone transport diagnostic as assistant text, T3 recognizes it and fails the turn, but records only Provider turn failed. The adapter passes the recognized string as cause; makeProviderFailure intentionally does not display arbitrary cause text.

For example, after earlier commentary and a completed step:

Before: transport_error / Provider turn failed.
After:  transport_error / Error: RetriableError: WritableIterable is closed

Change

Pass the already-recognized diagnostic as the explicit failure message, through the existing bounded failure formatter and redactor. The transport detector, terminal status, and retry policy keep their existing behavior. Extend the existing adapter case to assert the terminal message.

Scope and approval

This qualifies for the small, focused obvious-bug exception: one incorrect argument hides a diagnostic the adapter has already classified. No new setting, contract, retry policy, or raw-cause fallback is introduced. The existing behavior reaches web, desktop, mobile, remote clients and delegated runs through the same terminal event.

Related: merged #23273 fixes detection after earlier commentary, but its regression expected the generic message. Merged #16146 preserves SDK result-error messages, while this separate path handles errors emitted as assistant text. Open #27185 addresses a hanging SDK wait and retains the generic text; this PR fixes neither its timing nor completion policy.

Verification

The strengthened existing adapter case fails on upstream main with Provider turn failed. instead of the recognized diagnostic, then passes with the one-line production correction. The fixture drives the real adapter's terminal event using a synthetic SDK runner; no model request is made.

• Docker, Node 26.12.1, pinned Cursor SDK 1.2.0, upstream base 567a105705bc.
• vp run check:changed upstream/main --concurrency 2: passed format, lint, both knip passes, all 10 affected/dependent package typechecks, and 22 tests across the Cursor adapter and the required agent-context check.

No interactive client or real provider was used. This is a server diagnostic correction; the before/after terminal transcript above is its runtime evidence.

Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 98d521d

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Recognized Cursor transport failures now retain their diagnostic message instead of falling back to generic failure text. Existing redaction and length limits remain in place, and turn status and failure classification are unchanged.

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Walkthrough

When a Cursor transport failure causes a turn to fail, the provider failure uses the transport diagnostic as its message. The failure remains classified as transport_error, and the test expects the specific diagnostic text.

Changes: Cursor transport diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve transport failure message packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.test.ts	The transport-failure branch passes the diagnostic as the provider failure message. The transport-dump test expects the WritableIterable is closed diagnostic. The transport_error classification is unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: Cursor provider fails behind a TLS-inspecting proxy because the SDK always uses HTTP/2 #16435 — The issue reports Cursor transport failures displayed only as Provider turn failed. This change passes the transport diagnostic as the failure message.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#29910 — Both changes pass provider failure diagnostics through makeProviderFailure. That PR applies this to Muse session errors and redaction.
• pingdotgg/t3code#30636 — Both changes modify Cursor adapter failure construction. That PR adds SDK code and isRetryable metadata to provider failures.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: only21mil, yash-singh1

Merge Risk: Low · up to d8740

Transport failure messages now keep the specific diagnostic. A recovery code on a diagnostic line could be stored in the failure record as well as in the assistant text. This is a narrow exposure, so the change is mergeable with a small redaction follow-up.

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Review comments at @packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Line 2552: Redact recovery codes from transportFailure before assigning it to
the failure item’s message, using the existing redaction mechanism. Keep this
change scoped to stored failure details so assistant text already emitted
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