[juliusmarminge]

Root cause: @cursor/sdk 1.2.0 only emits shell-output-delta interaction updates for a user-started shellCommandAction with an execId (function $s in dist/*/336.js). Agent shell tool calls run through the shellStream exec handler, which streams stdout/stderr only back to Cursor's backend, so T3 never saw live output; separately, the adapter's shellOutputText read keys the SDK never sends. I confirmed with an instrumented SDK copy in local mode that the shellStream handler receives each stdout chunk in real time, tagged with toolCallId equal to the tool-call-started callId and conversationId equal to the agent id. Fix: (1) extend the existing patches/@cursor__sdk@1.2.0.patch (esm, cjs and bundled builds, via pnpm patch/patch-commit) so the generic stream exec handler calls an optional process hook globalThis[Symbol.for("@cursor/sdk.shellStreamOutput")] with {conversationId, toolCallId, event:{case:"stdout"|"stderr", value:{data}}}; the call is guarded and wrapped in try/catch. (2) CursorAgentSdk runner installs that hook once, subscribes each run after it starts (unsubscribes when wait settles), and forwards only its own agent's chunks through the existing serialized dispatchUpdate as shell-output-delta with toolCallId added. (3) The adapter routes shell-output-delta to the tool with that toolCallId (falling back to the latest shell when absent) and reads the SDK's real {case, value:{data}} frame, so it now also handles the SDK's own deltas correctly. Verified live: with the patched SDK installed, a real local run printed tick 1/2/3 at 4.4s/6.4s/8.4s through the hook before tool-call-completed at 10.5s. No new regex or parser; shellOutputText is a constant-time field read on any input.

Fixes #30228

Reproduction on main

Commit origin/main 6de770c. Started a dev server with T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0 vp run dev on a fresh database (web on localhost), opened it in the preview browser, added a Cursor provider instance in Settings > Providers (authenticated via CURSOR_API_KEY) and selected Composer 2.5. Sent: run exactly for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do echo "tick $i"; sleep 3; done. Expanded the shell command row while it was running; it showed only the command text and no output. A once-per-second sampler in the page logged 0 'tick' lines from 24s to 53s while the row was expanded and the command was running. At 54s, when the tool call completed, all 10 lines appeared at once. A first run with an 8-tick loop also showed no streamed output, but that row was collapsed during the run, so it is not counted as evidence. Separately, I drove @cursor/sdk 1.2.0 directly in local mode (Agent.create + agent.send with onDelta, logging every update type) on a 10-second shell loop, twice. Both runs got tool-call-started -> tool-requests-listed -> tool-call-completed about 10 s later, with zero shell-output-delta updates. Update counts: {thinking-delta:20, token-delta:36, thinking-completed:2, text-delta:25, tool-call-started:1, tool-requests-listed:1, tool-call-completed:1, step-completed:1, turn-ended:1}.

Evidence

Run the same ten-tick shell loop through the real Cursor provider in fresh web app databases. Expand the shell row while running. Both runs used a 1280×800 browser viewport and light theme; captures exclude private metadata.

Before	After
ed54f30644	24addbda31
Before recording: no output during execution; all ten lines appear together.	After recording: lines arrive progressively during execution.

Images are frames from the reviewed recordings. Reproduction script, browser driver, and one-second output samples.

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Not shown:

• stderr-specific streaming and concurrent tool-call routing were not exercised by this stdout-only reproduction.
• Desktop and mobile clients were not exercised.

Tests

vp test run src/server/CursorAgentSdk.test.ts src/server/adapter.test.ts (packages/provider-cursor): 29 passed. The new runner test and the extended adapter test both fail with the source change stashed (TypeError: hook not installed; command_output.delta expected [] vs the routed chunk). vp run check:changed: unused patches, lint, knip, typecheck (41 packages), tests (3 files) passed; format failed once on CursorAgentSdk.ts, fixed with vp fmt, then the commit hook's vp fmt/lint/knip passed. Live check: drove the patched @cursor/sdk directly (local mode, CURSOR_API_KEY) on a 3-tick shell loop; the hook received each line live with the matching toolCallId and conversationId. No in-app UI rerun.

Not in this change

• Shell output from Task subagent sessions is not streamed: their exec frames carry a different conversationId, and the runner only forwards its own agent's chunks.
• A chunk that arrives before its tool-call-started update is dropped (output still appears on completion); in the observed runs tool-call-started always arrived first.
• Cloud-runtime Cursor runs were not examined; T3 uses local mode.
• The SDK patch is pinned to @cursor/sdk 1.2.0 and must be re-checked on the next SDK bump (and dropped if Cursor starts emitting shell-output-delta for agent shells, to avoid duplicates).

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 24addbd

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Cursor agent shell commands now stream output through the existing command-output channel with conversation and tool-call routing. The change affects output reporting rather than command permissions or execution behavior.

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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: 1a1f9ac · PR result: 24addbd · 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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Walkthrough

The Cursor provider now forwards matching shell-stream events during a run. The adapter extracts stdout and stderr data and associates output deltas with the corresponding active shell call.

Changes: Cursor shell output streaming

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Forward shell-stream events packages/provider-cursor/src/server/CursorAgentSdk.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/CursorAgentSdk.test.ts	The runner subscribes to shell-stream events, forwards events that match the agent ID and include a string tool-call ID, and removes the listener when the run wait completes or fails. The test checks filtering by conversation and run timing.
Parse and attribute shell output packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.test.ts	The adapter extracts string data from stdout and stderr events. It associates output with the active shell identified by tool-call ID when available, and the test checks that output is attributed to the correct shell.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#26262: Updates the @cursor/sdk version to 1.2.0, which this change uses for shell-stream events.

Suggested reviewers: yash-singh1, jaiminp007, maria-rcks

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(cursor): agent shell commands stream their output while they run" follows the conventional commit format and names the main change: agent shell output now streams live during a run. The…
Linked Issues check		Issue #30228 requires incremental display of Cursor shell output while the command runs. The PR covers this path end to end. (1) The @cursor/sdk 1.2.0 patch makes the generic stream exec handler call …
Out of Scope Changes check		All changes connect to the Cursor shell-output streaming objective of #30228. The SDK patch (patches/@cursor__sdk@1.2.0.patch) supplies the missing stream data. CursorAgentSdk.ts and its test implemen…
Description check		The description follows the template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope, Verification, and an AI-assistance note. The Problem section is covered by a root-cause analysis: @cursor/sdk 1.2.0 emits n…

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The title "fix(cursor): agent shell commands stream their output while they run" follows the conventional commit format and names the main change: agent shell output now streams live during a run. The changeset adds an SDK hook, a runner subscription that forwards shell-output-delta updates, and adapter routing by toolCallId, all aimed at that outcome. The title is specific and does not rely on vague terms.

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Issue #30228 requires incremental display of Cursor shell output while the command runs. The PR covers this path end to end. (1) The @cursor/sdk 1.2.0 patch makes the generic stream exec handler call a process hook with {conversationId, toolCallId, event}. This exposes agent shell stdout and stderr, which the SDK otherwise sends only to the backend. (2) CursorAgentSdkRunner installs the hook, subscribes per run, filters by its own agent ID, and emits shell-output-delta with toolCallId through the existing dispatchUpdate. (3) adapter.ts routes shell-output-delta to the tool with that toolCallId and reads the SDK frame {case, value:{data}}, which fixes the empty shellOutputText read described in the issue. Tests cover the runner forwarding and the adapter routing. The PR reports that these tests fail without the source change. The author also reports a live SDK check that received ticks before completion. No in-app UI rerun is recorded, so UI-level confirmation is not established by this review. The coding requirement is met by the code and tests. Remaining limits (Task subagent output, chunks before tool-call-started, cloud runtime) are stated by the PR and are not acceptance criteria in the issue. The Evidence section is a placeholder, which is a non-coding item.

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All changes connect to the Cursor shell-output streaming objective of #30228. The SDK patch (patches/@cursor__sdk@1.2.0.patch) supplies the missing stream data. CursorAgentSdk.ts and its test implement forwarding. adapter.ts and adapter.test.ts implement toolCallId routing and the corrected frame read. Removing the alternate shellOutputText field names is part of the root-cause fix, since the SDK never sends those keys. No unrelated files are in the change summary. The pnpm-lock.yaml change is excluded from review and is not assessed here.

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The description follows the template closely. It has Problem, Change, Scope, Verification, and an AI-assistance note. The Problem section is covered by a root-cause analysis: @cursor/sdk 1.2.0 emits no live shell-output-delta for agent shell tool calls, and the adapter reads keys the SDK does not send. The Change section explains the three-part fix (SDK patch with a process hook, runner subscription and forwarding, adapter routing and frame parsing). The Scope section links the issue (#30228) and explains the bug-fix nature of the change. The Verification section is detailed. It lists focused test runs with pass and fail-without-fix results, a live SDK check, a before/after UI reproduction with recordings, and what was not checked. The template's Problem section is somewhat folded into the Change paragraph rather than stated as a separate sentence or two, and the Scope section does not explicitly say why a PR-only issue link suffices beyond the link itself, but these are non-critical. The model and harness used are named only as 'AI-assisted' with no model or harness identifier, which the template asks for when an agent was used. This is a minor omission. The description is complete enough to pass.

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- Line 620: Update the shell-output listener in the CursorAgentSdk flow to
buffer matching shell chunks while pendingUpdates are being dispatched, then
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during dispatch of a pending tool-call-started update and verifies the chunk is
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Buffer shell output until startup updates are dispatched.

The shell listener subscribes before the pendingUpdates drain at CursorAgentSdk.ts:623-634. Each pending update is awaited in sequence. A shell chunk that arrives during that wait can be chained before a buffered tool-call-started. The adapter then finds no tool for the toolCallId at adapter.ts:2072-2078 and drops the chunk. The impact is limited to chunks that arrive during the drain window. Later chunks reach the tool row normally.

Hold forwarded shell output until the drain completes, then flush it in arrival order:

Suggested fix

--- "a/packages/provider-cursor/src/server/CursorAgentSdk.ts"
+++ "b/packages/provider-cursor/src/server/CursorAgentSdk.ts"
@@ -617,21 +617,34 @@
             },
           });
           callbacksReady = true;
+          let startupDrained = false;
+          const bufferedShellOutput: Array<() => Promise<void>> = [];
           const unsubscribeShellOutput = subscribeShellStreamOutput((output) => {
             if (output.conversationId !== agent.agentId || typeof output.toolCallId !== "string") {
               return;
             }
-            void dispatchUpdate({
-              type: "shell-output-delta",
-              event: { ...output.event, toolCallId: output.toolCallId },
-            });
+            const toolCallId = output.toolCallId;
+            const forward = () =>
+              dispatchUpdate({
+                type: "shell-output-delta",
+                event: { ...output.event, toolCallId },
+              });
+            if (startupDrained) {
+              void forward();
+            } else {
+              bufferedShellOutput.push(forward);
+            }
           });
           for (const update of pendingUpdates) {
             yield* Effect.tryPromise({
               try: () => dispatchUpdate(update),
               catch: (cause) => runnerError(cause, "run.onDelta"),
             });
           }
+          startupDrained = true;
+          for (const forward of bufferedShellOutput) {
+            void forward();
+          }
 
           return {
             runId: run.id,

Add a runner test that emits a shell chunk while the pending tool-call-started is still being dispatched. Assert that the chunk is delivered after the tool start.

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Review comment at @packages/provider-cursor/src/server/CursorAgentSdk.ts at line 620:
Update the shell-output listener in the CursorAgentSdk flow to buffer matching shell chunks while pendingUpdates are being dispatched, then forward them in arrival order only after the drain completes; continue forwarding chunks immediately afterward. Add a runner test that emits a chunk during dispatch of a pending tool-call-started update and verifies the chunk is delivered after the tool start.

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