[juliusmarminge]

Problem

On Cursor, a steer cancels the running Cursor run and starts a new run on the same Cursor agent with only the steer text. Cursor drops a cancelled run from the agent's conversation, so the replacement run never sees the original request. Steps: Cursor provider, Follow-up behavior Steer, send can you write me a 1000 word story about a dog?, then while it runs send no wait a pig please. On main the agent generated a pig image, or replied "That line might be a typo… What would you like to do next?", with no idea a story was asked for. T3's orchestration instructions sent with a cancelled first run are lost the same way.

Change

The Cursor adapter remembers the user text of a run that T3 interrupted, keyed to the Cursor agent. The next message sent to that agent starts with that request under a one-line note that the previous turn was interrupted and is missing from the agent's history, followed by the new message. The remembered text is cleared once a send succeeds, ignored for a different agent, and kept across /compress. Repeated steers chain because each carried prompt includes the one before it. No orchestration, contract or persisted-state change.

Scope and approval

Fixes #32568

Verification

• vp test run packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.test.ts: 22/22 pass. The new test carries an interrupted prompt into the steer that restarts the turn fails on main (expected 'No wait, a pig please.\n\n<runtime_in…' to include 'Write me a 1000 word story about a do…') and passes with the fix. It also checks that the turn after a normal finish carries nothing.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (10 packages) and tests pass.
• Provider behaviour, against the real Cursor API with @cursor/sdk 1.2.0: after run.cancel, a second send on the same agent answered "NO PREVIOUS MESSAGE", and Agent.messages.list started at the second message. A control where the first run finished kept it.
• Real web app (dev server, fresh database, Cursor provider, Steer), before on main 25bf84ab07 and after on this branch 53b18482fc:

	main 25bf84ab07	this branch 53b18482fc
Replacement run.start message	no wait a pig please only	interrupted request + no wait a pig please
Result	pig image (pig.png), no story	"The pig's name was Bramble, and he lived in a field…" (a story about a pig)

• Other paths, with the adapter's fake Cursor runner and no real Cursor calls, before on main 41443e5706 and after on this branch 91fe6b522e. The driver is a scratch test and is not part of this PR (matrix, index, before.txt, after.txt, driver):

Path	main	this branch
Different Cursor agent after an interrupt	nothing carried	nothing carried
/compress after an interrupt	next message lacks the request	/compress carries nothing; next message carries the request
Send rejected after an interrupt	retry lacks the request	retry carries it; cleared after a successful send
Two steers in a row	third message has only the last steer	third message carries both earlier requests in order
Interrupted run with native images	next message lacks the request	text and attachment paths carried; images not re-sent

No UI change, so there are no screenshots. Not checked: the macOS desktop build the report came from (the server path is platform-independent).

Verification log

• Main merged into the branch (head 5051260f93); vp run check:changed passes on it.
• Review round 1: two independent reviews, both merge, no confirmed findings. Not acted on: a replaced Cursor agent id on resume (resume reuses the stored agent id or fails, so the request is only dropped for a different conversation), and the fresh-session recovery after failed handoff bookkeeping (that path rebuilds context from T3's history, which still holds the interrupted message).
• Proof audit: pass 1 found five paths without execution proof; they were captured above; pass 2 sufficient after an independent rerun (5/5 pass on the branch, 4 of 5 fail on main; the different-agent case carries nothing on both).

Before: provider protocol excerpt on main (prompts truncated)

# before: main @ 25bf84ab07, web dev server, Cursor provider, Follow-up behavior = Steer. Provider protocol log excerpt (prompts truncated).
# variant 1: grok-4.7 via Cursor, project thread, steer while the story streams
[2026-11-07T18:18:11.613Z] agent.open   
[2026-11-07T18:18:11.615Z] agent.opened agent-b8b5b02f-6d9a-  
[2026-11-07T18:18:12.152Z] run.start   <t3_code_orchestration_instructions>## T3 Code orchestration\n\nOrdinary coding tasks need
[2026-11-07T18:18:13.510Z] run.started agent-b8b5b02f-6d9a-  
[2026-11-07T18:18:31.091Z] run.cancel   
[2026-11-07T18:18:31.097Z] run.completed  cancelled 
[2026-11-07T18:18:31.212Z] run.start   no wait a pig please\n\n<runtime_info>In case you're asked: you are running in T3 Code thr
[2026-11-07T18:18:31.442Z] run.started agent-b8b5b02f-6d9a-  
[2026-11-07T18:18:52.493Z] run.completed  finished 

# variant 2: composer-2.5, steer during thinking
[2026-11-07T18:19:21.888Z] run.start  <t3_code_orchestration_instructions>## T3 Code orchestration\n\nOrdina 
[2026-11-07T18:19:23.306Z] run.started   
[2026-11-07T18:19:30.178Z] run.cancel   
[2026-11-07T18:19:30.182Z] run.completed cancelled  
[2026-11-07T18:19:30.297Z] run.start  No sorry wait a pig\n\n<runtime_info>In case you're asked: you are run 
[2026-11-07T18:19:30.491Z] run.started   
[2026-11-07T18:19:34.235Z] run.completed finished  No problem — take your time.\n\nThat line might be a typo (e.g. “wait a sec”). What would you like to do next?","model":

After: provider protocol excerpt on this branch

# after fix (fix/issue-32568 @ 53b18482fc): grok-4.7 via Cursor, project thread, steer while reply streams
[2026-11-07T18:27:28.068Z] agent.open 
[2026-11-07T18:27:28.634Z] agent.opened 
[2026-11-07T18:27:29.104Z] run.start 
  message: <t3_code_orchestration_instructions>…</t3_code_orchestration_instructions>
  
  <user_request>
  can you write me a 1000 word story about a dog?
  </user_request>
[2026-11-07T18:27:30.475Z] run.started 
[2026-11-07T18:27:46.246Z] run.cancel 
[2026-11-07T18:27:46.255Z] run.completed cancelled
[2026-11-07T18:27:46.383Z] run.start 
  message: Your previous turn was interrupted and is missing from your history. Some of its work may already be done. Its request was:
  
  <t3_code_orchestration_instructions>…</t3_code_orchestration_instructions>
  
  <user_request>
  can you write me a 1000 word story about a dog?
  </user_request>
  
  The new message, which may continue or change that request:
  
  no wait a pig please
[2026-11-07T18:27:46.622Z] run.started 
[2026-11-07T18:28:36.564Z] run.completed finished
  result: The pig’s name was Bramble, and he lived in a field that sloped down to a river. The field belonged to a woman named Maren, who kept two goats, a dozen hens, and a habit of talking to whatever animal was nearest. Bramble listened more than the goats did. He had small eyes, a long back, and ears that tipped forward when a gate latch clicked.\n\nMornings began with mist. Maren came out with a bucket and a low whistle. Bramble trotted to the trough, not because he was starving—there was always grass—but because the whistle meant company. He would stand while she scratched the ridge between his ears, then wander off to root along the fence line, turning the soil into small dark crescents. The hens

Cursor SDK cancel reproduction (script and output)

// Usage: node repro.mjs <cwd> <model>
import { createRequire } from "node:module";
const require = createRequire(process.cwd() + "/package.json");
const { Agent } = require("@cursor/sdk");
const cwd = process.argv[2]; const model = process.argv[3] ?? "composer-2";
const opts = { apiKey: process.env.CURSOR_API_KEY, model: { id: model }, local: { cwd } };
const agent = await Agent.create(opts);
console.log("agent", agent.agentId);
let deltas = 0; let text = "";
const run1 = await agent.send("can you write me a 1000 word story about a dog?", {
  onDelta: async ({ update }) => { deltas++; if (update.type === "text-delta") text += update.text; },
});
console.log("run1", run1.id);
const t0 = Date.now();
while (text.length < 200 && Date.now() - t0 < 60000) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 200));
console.log("streamed chars before cancel:", text.length, "deltas:", deltas);
await run1.cancel().catch((e) => console.log("cancel err", e?.message));
const r1 = await run1.wait().catch((e) => ({ status: "err " + e?.message }));
console.log("run1 result status:", r1.status);
let reply = "";
const run2 = await agent.send("no wait a pig please. Before doing anything, quote my previous message verbatim on the first line, or say NO PREVIOUS MESSAGE if there is none. Do not create files or images; just reply in text, keep it under 60 words.", {
  onDelta: async ({ update }) => { if (update.type === "text-delta") reply += update.text; },
});
const r2 = await run2.wait();
console.log("run2 status:", r2.status);
console.log("REPLY:\n" + reply);
try { const msgs = await Agent.messages?.list?.(agent.agentId, { runtime: "local", cwd }); console.log("messages:", JSON.stringify(msgs)?.slice(0, 1500)); } catch (e) { console.log("listMessages err", e?.message); }
process.exit(0);

# @cursor/sdk 1.2.0, real Cursor API, bare non-git directory. Cancelled first run, then a second send on the same agent.
agent agent-d38ebb90-eff7-4c69-bce6-f9a586bfb9d6
run1 run-dceb5ccb-b5c8-4177-bd33-e43fb189689a
streamed chars before cancel: 212 deltas: 95
run1 result status: cancelled
run2 status: finished
REPLY:
NO PREVIOUS MESSAGE

Got it — a pig it is. I won’t create files or images; text only from here.

# Agent.messages.list after the second run (first entry only, truncated): the conversation starts at the second message
"userMessage":{"text":"no wait a pig please. Before doing anything, quote my previous message verbatim on the first line, or say NO PREVIOUS MESSAGE if there is none. Do not create files or images; just reply in text, keep it under 60 words

# control: the first run finishes instead of being cancelled
agent agent-21c1e9df-45d7-4415-8333-98b3ebe49f92
run1 run-679ba712-0c8b-496a-a5ac-8561c3a956e0
streamed chars before cancel: 0 deltas: 0
run1 result status: finished
run2 status: finished
REPLY:
say just the word OK
pig

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at c5ecf6e

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Interrupted Cursor requests now accompany the next message to the same agent, preserving context when a user steers a running task. The change is session-local and leaves product defaults, permissions, and persisted state unchanged.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: ac5e48c · PR result: 5051260 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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The Cursor adapter now saves the prompt from an interrupted turn with its agent ID. When a later turn uses the same agent, it includes that prompt with the new message. Tests verify the replacement request and confirm that the prompt is not carried into a subsequent request.

Changes: Cursor interrupted-turn steering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture interrupted prompt packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts	The active turn retains its prompt. When a turn is interrupted, the adapter saves the prompt with the run’s agent ID.
Include prompt in replacement run packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/fixtures/message_steering/cursor_transcript.ndjson	For a matching agent, the adapter adds the saved prompt to the next message with an interruption notice. It leaves the prompt intact for compaction and clears it after a regular turn. The test and transcript fixture check the replacement request and a subsequent run.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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In rare recovery cases, a steer can lose the original request. Restating it is a workaround.

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Out of Scope Changes check		[#32568] The adapter change, regression test, and steering fixture support the Cursor steer fix. The changes have no demonstrated unrelated scope.
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[#32568] The Cursor adapter carries the interrupted request into the replacement message for the same agent. The adapter regression test checks both requests and verifies that a completed turn is not carried forward. The updated steering fixture expects the interrupted request in the replacement run.

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Minor · Preserve the interrupted request during fresh-session recovery. · adapter.ts:2409-2417

packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts:2409-2417
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Preserve the interrupted request during fresh-session recovery.

If delivery bookkeeping fails after a Cursor turn accepts a handoff, the next steer forces a fresh native session. The recovery handoff excludes the current run, and the saved prompt does not match the new agent. The replacement can receive the steer without the original request.

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Update the interrupted-prompt selection passed to resolveUserMessage so
fresh-session recovery retains the original request even when interrupted.agent
differs from agent.nativeThreadId. Ensure the replacement handoff includes both
the original request and the steer, while preserving the existing behavior for
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- Around line 2409-2417: Update the interrupted-prompt selection passed to
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On the outside-diff finding (adapter.ts:2409-2417, fresh-session recovery): not changing this. The saved prompt is keyed to the Cursor agent on purpose. A different agent is a new native conversation, which the orchestrator seeds with its own handoff history, so carrying the prompt across agents would repeat the request whenever that handoff already covers it. The path described needs handoff delivery bookkeeping to fail first. It is rare, and the current-run gap in recovery handoffs is not specific to Cursor. This PR fixes the same-agent steer that loses the request in normal use.

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