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fix(web,mobile): MCP app calls keep their tool row and result beside the app card - #33347
When a completed tool call carries an MCP app reference, the thread shows the app card in place of the tool row, so the card is the only view of the result. If the app cannot use its payload, the card stays blank and the tool's input and output are visible nowhere, even though the agent used them. Datadog's dataviz app is one example: it draws only from structuredContent or JSON text, and aggregate_rum_events returns a TSV text block.
Reproduced on main (2b65ffb): web dev server, a Claude thread, and a synthetic stdio MCP server whose ui:// app behaves like Datadog's. With a text/TSV result, the app logged "Unrecognized tool result payload" and the card stayed a blank 320px box. Expanding "Worked for" showed no tool row. A structuredContent result in the same thread drew the app's table, so the host delivers payloads correctly. What was missing is a fallback view of the result.
Change
Web (apps/web/src/session-logic.ts) and mobile (apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts): an app call now projects its normal tool row first, then the app card. On web the card's id becomes mcp-app:<itemId> so it no longer collides with the row's id. The card still stays outside the turn's "Worked for" fold. On mobile the per-row cache holds both entries in that order, so an incremental rebuild never splits them.
Web incremental projection: an app-bearing row now forces a full rebuild when it changes, so an update that drops the app also drops its card.
Tool row output (packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.ts): for app calls, the row shows the provider result, normalised the same way as ordinary MCP rows, instead of the internal {t3McpApp, result} wrapper. Image blocks it cannot preview show as [image].
Result normalisation at ingest (packages/shared/src/toolOutput.ts): an empty structuredContent ({} or []) counts as absent, so a result with text content shows that text instead of "No output". It applies to Codex and ACP MCP results and, on Claude, to every tool result with structured content, including the result a Claude MCP app receives. Codex app calls keep their raw result and are normalised when the row displays it.
Server detail bound (apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/WireProjection.ts): an app call's wrapped result is sent unchanged when it fits the 256 KiB detail bound, so the app keeps its image data; over the bound, image data is stripped and the rest bounded like any tool output. The t3McpApp value is kept only when it parses as a valid app reference; otherwise the whole output is bounded.
User docs: MCP apps now appear below their tool call, which keeps its input and result.
This is the part of https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/16992 a maintainer left open there: "Show an error and retain access to tool results when another MCP app runtime failure occurs." This PR covers retaining access to tool results. The host cannot tell when an app draws nothing (the Datadog app initializes and receives its result), so it adds no error or timeout state.
Verification
Focused tests, each written to fail on main or on the commit before it first (146 pass across the five files):
apps/web/src/session-logic.test.ts: "keeps an MCP app call's tool row and output beside its app card"; "drops an MCP app card when an update removes the call's app" (incremental projection).
apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts: "keeps an MCP app call's tool activity beside its app card".
packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.test.ts: "shows the tool result, not the app wrapper"; "reads a result with metadata and marks images it cannot preview" (including a bounded result).
packages/shared/src/toolOutput.test.ts: mcpToolResultOutput treats an empty structuredContent object and array as absent.
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/WireProjection.test.ts: "leaves a screenshot's bytes out of the fetched tool output": an app result that fits keeps its image data; an oversized one loses it; an invalid oversized t3McpApp value is bounded.
vp run check:changed on 885eecb5c8 (main merged): format, lint, knip, typecheck (35 packages), tests in 7 files and the React compiler check pass.
Evidence. Before d1aeed2492 (main), after 697288fc8e; the only later PR commit, 9e73e3c088, changes ingest normalisation, not a render path (P18 is re-run on it). Each side runs its own checkout on a fresh database (T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0) seeded with the same synthetic persisted thread through the server RPC: no provider turns, so the pairs differ only by the change. Web: Chromium on Linux, no device emulation, DPR 2, 100% font scaling, frozen clock, reduced motion, 1440×1000 CSS px (F06 390×844), dark unless labelled. Diff0: absolute difference ×16 at zero threshold; DiffT: 5% threshold.
Row
Before
After
Diff0
DiffT
F02 TSV app, fold, integration and row open (1440 dark)
F02 (1 s open fold, 2 s open integration, 3 s open TSV row, 4 s close, 5 s reopen, 6–7 s close and reopen integration, 8–9 s close and reopen fold; the targets do not exist before): before, after.
F06 (1 s open row, 2.5 s scroll output to row 48, 4.5 s scroll the feed to its end, 6.5 s feed start, 8 s output start): before, after.
P22, a real forked thread whose inherited history holds app calls, after: recording, still.
P09, Android Pixel 9 (API 36, 1080×2424, dark, font scale 1.0), same persisted TSV thread, after (2 s start, 6 s open integration, 10 s open TSV row, 13 s close, 17 s reopen): recording.
P18: identical raw MCP results through the real Codex ingest path. Ordinary {} and [] lose their text before and keep it after (before log, after log at 9e73e3c088); app calls keep their raw envelope on both sides.
P19 and P20: the detail RPC keeps a small result's image bytes, strips an oversized result's image data while keeping t3McpApp, and bounds the whole output when the reference is invalid.
P21: the mobile feed builder's cached rebuilds equal fresh builds through completion, append, removal and restoration of an app-bearing row.
Earlier captures from real provider turns (they also differ in elapsed labels and narration): F01 closed fold before / after; running → completed → settled before / after; Android live interleaving of rows and cards before / after; Android after for empty, mixed and failed; iOS row and fold reversals after; Settings → Chat → Tool calls in chat cycle, cards stay while rows follow the setting after; guest detail through the real GuestPage with a stubbed guest stream (harness) before / after; web detail loading, error and success (harness) after.
What else changed: each app call gains its tool row, and calls from one integration group under an integration header, so the app card and everything after it move down; a turn whose only work is one app call gains a "Worked for" fold; an ordinary MCP row with an empty structuredContent shows its text. F03 also has faint composer-backdrop pixels at zero threshold where the inserted rows pass behind the glass composer; they are gone at 5%.
Not verified:
Native captures of detail loading, error and unavailable states, a cold relaunch, and the native tool-call visibility setting: the shared device pool returned "Remote daemon is unavailable" on every attempt. The mobile diff does not touch those code paths (thread-work-log.tsx fetch states, persistence, the filter in threadActivity.ts); the audit replayed the filter at head with two cards kept through every mode.
Native before captures for single rows, the in-place update that drops an app (covered by the session-logic test), the guest route over a live T3 Connect share, desktop (renders the web client), iOS on a physical device and the SwiftUI client.
A completed tool call that carries an MCP app reference becomes only an
app card on web and mobile, so its input and output are lost when the
app cannot render its payload. These tests fail until the tool row is
kept beside the card.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A completed tool call that carried an MCP app reference became only an app
card, so when the app could not use its payload the card stayed blank and
the call's input and output were visible nowhere. The call now keeps its
normal tool row, and the app card follows it as before. On web the card's
entry id gains an `mcp-app:` prefix so it no longer shares the tool row's id;
mobile ids were already distinct, and its per-row feed cache now holds every
entry a row produces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — MCP app calls now keep their tool row and readable result alongside the app card. The changes affect presentation and bounded result transport, without changing tool execution or access permissions.
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Web and mobile timelines now show MCP app cards alongside their tool activity. Tool-result projection preserves MCP app metadata and bounded results. Dynamic-tool detail extracts provider output for display, and empty structured content falls back to content.
Changes: MCP app tool visibility
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Summary
MCP app result projection and extraction apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/WireProjection.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/WireProjection.test.ts, packages/shared/src/toolOutput.ts, packages/shared/src/toolOutput.test.ts
Wire projection preserves the MCP app wrapper and bounds its result. Shared result extraction uses content when structured content is empty. Tests cover retained metadata, text, image metadata, and fallback behavior.
Web timeline entries and updates apps/web/src/session-logic.ts, apps/web/src/session-logic.test.ts, docs/user/html-renders.md
The timeline adds an MCP app entry after the tool row, with an mcp-app:-prefixed ID. Tests cover retained tool output and removal of an app entry when updated output lacks MCP app data. Documentation describes app placement and tool-result visibility.
Mobile feed entries and cache apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts
The feed includes both tool activity and an MCP app card for the same projected item. The cache stores and reuses all entries for each row. Tests cover feed contents and activity detail.
Tool output remains available beside the app card, but an oversized app reference can inflate a detail response. Bound the reference and strengthen the image-redaction assertion before merging, or explicitly accept these bounded risks.
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The title clearly identifies the main change: MCP app calls retain their tool row and result beside the app card.
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Active issue #33302 reports that an MCP app can show a blank card while hiding a usable provider result. The web and mobile projections now retain the tool activity beside the app card. `itemDetail.ts…
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The changed server projection and shared result-normalization code support retaining readable MCP app tool results for #33302. The web and mobile tests, client-runtime and shared tests, and documentat…
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The description covers the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the issue and fix, links the issue and maintainer direction, and reports focused tests, …
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Active issue #33302 reports that an MCP app can show a blank card while hiding a usable provider result. The web and mobile projections now retain the tool activity beside the app card. itemDetail.ts displays the provider result instead of the app wrapper. WireProjection.ts preserves the wrapper and bounded result for detail projection, and mcpToolResultOutput falls back to content when structuredContent is empty. The focused tests cover projection, result display, and result normalization. The issue’s reproduced case is addressed. The reference to closed issue #16992 does not add a separate coding requirement for this PR.
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The changed server projection and shared result-normalization code support retaining readable MCP app tool results for #33302. The web and mobile tests, client-runtime and shared tests, and documentation change cover or explain that behavior. No unrelated change is evident.
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A tool result with `structuredContent: {}` replaced its text content, so the row
said "No output". Empty structured content now counts as absent, for app rows
and ordinary MCP rows alike.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Image data inside an app call's wrapped result was not stripped, so a large
image truncated the detail payload and the row printed the raw wrapper. The
server now bounds the wrapped result like any tool output and keeps the app
reference, and the client unwraps a bounded result too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/WireProjection.test.ts:
- Around line 238-240: Update the `projectTurnItemForDetail` assertion for the
wrapped image result so it verifies the projected image omits `data`, using an
exact image assertion or an explicit absence check. Keep the existing assertion
for the surrounding projected result.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/WireProjection.ts:
- Around line 243-251: Update boundToolOutput to validate the app reference
under MCP_APP_OUTPUT_KEY before retaining it in detail responses, ensuring
oversized ui:// resource URIs are not sent. Preserve valid app metadata and keep
the existing boundToolResult handling for the tool result; use the established
URI validation or size limit rather than introducing an unrelated bound.
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The detail bound kept any `t3McpApp` value verbatim, so a tool output shaped
like the app wrapper could carry an oversized value past the 256 KiB limit.
The server now reads the reference with readMcpAppReference and bounds the
whole output like any other tool output when it is not a valid reference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e detail bound
Stripping image data from an app call's wrapped result also stripped it from
the payload the app itself receives, so an app drawing an image got image
blocks without data. The server now sends an app's result unchanged when it
fits the 256 KiB detail bound and strips images only from one that does not.
The tool row still shows `[image]` for app images.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Seed the same successful aggregate_rum_events call with query @type:view service:checkout, TSV output and an app requiring structured content. Open the completed thread; expand Worked for and Aggregate rum events where available. Base has no tool row. Head shows the input and TSV above the retained app card. Web/Electron appFrames=1 on both commits; toolRows=0 before and 1 after.
Supplemental real-server observation: the large result becomes a string without its app reference on base; head retains the app reference beside the bounded result. Runtime transcript.
Head supplemental detail captures, Chromium/light/1280×800 CSS, cropped to the relevant result and app:
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A usable base Android interaction recording is missing: repeated remote-daemon failures and stalled commands prevented recording the completed reproduction. The stable before/after native Android stills were captured and inspected.
Actual Claude Code plus Datadog plugin execution was not performed; the reproduction uses identical synthetic MCP payloads through the real Replay provider, server and clients.
Image-byte preservation in boundToolOutput is unverified because the Replay adapter stripped image bytes before detail projection. The uploaded fallback capture demonstrates text and an image marker, not preserved image bytes.
App-reference removal during an update and the associated cache transition were not exercised.
Empty-structured-content and failed-call UI captures are supplemental head observations; equivalent edge-case interaction recordings on base and mobile were not completed.
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Problem
When a completed tool call carries an MCP app reference, the thread shows the app card in place of the tool row, so the card is the only view of the result. If the app cannot use its payload, the card stays blank and the tool's input and output are visible nowhere, even though the agent used them. Datadog's dataviz app is one example: it draws only from
structuredContentor JSON text, andaggregate_rum_eventsreturns a TSV text block.Reproduced on main (2b65ffb): web dev server, a Claude thread, and a synthetic stdio MCP server whose
ui://app behaves like Datadog's. With a text/TSV result, the app logged "Unrecognized tool result payload" and the card stayed a blank 320px box. Expanding "Worked for" showed no tool row. AstructuredContentresult in the same thread drew the app's table, so the host delivers payloads correctly. What was missing is a fallback view of the result.Change
apps/web/src/session-logic.ts) and mobile (apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts): an app call now projects its normal tool row first, then the app card. On web the card's id becomesmcp-app:<itemId>so it no longer collides with the row's id. The card still stays outside the turn's "Worked for" fold. On mobile the per-row cache holds both entries in that order, so an incremental rebuild never splits them.packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.ts): for app calls, the row shows the provider result, normalised the same way as ordinary MCP rows, instead of the internal{t3McpApp, result}wrapper. Image blocks it cannot preview show as[image].packages/shared/src/toolOutput.ts): an emptystructuredContent({}or[]) counts as absent, so a result with text content shows that text instead of "No output". It applies to Codex and ACP MCP results and, on Claude, to every tool result with structured content, including the result a Claude MCP app receives. Codex app calls keep their raw result and are normalised when the row displays it.apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/WireProjection.ts): an app call's wrapped result is sent unchanged when it fits the 256 KiB detail bound, so the app keeps its image data; over the bound, image data is stripped and the rest bounded like any tool output. Thet3McpAppvalue is kept only when it parses as a valid app reference; otherwise the whole output is bounded.Scope and approval
Fixes #33302
This is the part of https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/16992 a maintainer left open there: "Show an error and retain access to tool results when another MCP app runtime failure occurs." This PR covers retaining access to tool results. The host cannot tell when an app draws nothing (the Datadog app initializes and receives its result), so it adds no error or timeout state.
Verification
Focused tests, each written to fail on main or on the commit before it first (146 pass across the five files):
apps/web/src/session-logic.test.ts: "keeps an MCP app call's tool row and output beside its app card"; "drops an MCP app card when an update removes the call's app" (incremental projection).apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts: "keeps an MCP app call's tool activity beside its app card".packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.test.ts: "shows the tool result, not the app wrapper"; "reads a result with metadata and marks images it cannot preview" (including a bounded result).packages/shared/src/toolOutput.test.ts:mcpToolResultOutputtreats an emptystructuredContentobject and array as absent.apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/WireProjection.test.ts: "leaves a screenshot's bytes out of the fetched tool output": an app result that fits keeps its image data; an oversized one loses it; an invalid oversizedt3McpAppvalue is bounded.vp run check:changedon 885eecb5c8 (main merged): format, lint, knip, typecheck (35 packages), tests in 7 files and the React compiler check pass.Evidence. Before d1aeed2492 (main), after 697288fc8e; the only later PR commit, 9e73e3c088, changes ingest normalisation, not a render path (P18 is re-run on it). Each side runs its own checkout on a fresh database (
T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0) seeded with the same synthetic persisted thread through the server RPC: no provider turns, so the pairs differ only by the change. Web: Chromium on Linux, no device emulation, DPR 2, 100% font scaling, frozen clock, reduced motion, 1440×1000 CSS px (F06 390×844), dark unless labelled. Diff0: absolute difference ×16 at zero threshold; DiffT: 5% threshold.d1aeed2
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Recordings, same script both sides:
Transcripts (both sides, synthetic data, byte counts only):
{}and[]lose their text before and keep it after (before log, after log at 9e73e3c088); app calls keep their raw envelope on both sides.t3McpApp, and bounds the whole output when the reference is invalid.Earlier captures from real provider turns (they also differ in elapsed labels and narration): F01 closed fold before / after; running → completed → settled before / after; Android live interleaving of rows and cards before / after; Android after for empty, mixed and failed; iOS row and fold reversals after; Settings → Chat → Tool calls in chat cycle, cards stay while rows follow the setting after; guest detail through the real
GuestPagewith a stubbed guest stream (harness) before / after; web detail loading, error and success (harness) after.What else changed: each app call gains its tool row, and calls from one integration group under an integration header, so the app card and everything after it move down; a turn whose only work is one app call gains a "Worked for" fold; an ordinary MCP row with an empty
structuredContentshows its text. F03 also has faint composer-backdrop pixels at zero threshold where the inserted rows pass behind the glass composer; they are gone at 5%.Not verified:
thread-work-log.tsxfetch states, persistence, the filter inthreadActivity.ts); the audit replayed the filter at head with two cards kept through every mode.Driver scripts and fixtures (not committed): drivers, reproduction, fixture matrix, full evidence sheets, audit (an independent rebuild of F03 matched the delivered capture at 0 of 5,760,000 pixels), and the earlier round's repro-mcp-server.mjs and capture protocol.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.