fix(cursor): compact and normalize Computer Use / node_repl tool results - #1920
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…lts (lidge-jun#1866) - Compact large Computer Use and node_repl tool result payloads (e.g. AXTree, base64 screenshots) under external replay byte limits. - Preserve key UI context (window title, focused elements, URL) and strip bulk base64 image data from wire replays. - Normalize empty outer exec wrapper outputs and known runtime errors (SkyComputerUseError, node_repl variable redeclarations, missing sky globals) into actionable tool errors with recovery guidance. - Guard active trailing tool results from being completely dropped under constrained external replay budgets. - Add comprehensive regression tests in tests/cursor-computer-use-replay.test.ts.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCursor tool results now share normalization, Computer Use compaction, UTF-8-safe truncation, and wire serialization across request construction and protobuf replay. Active oversized results can retain a minimal truncation marker. Tests cover recovery errors, metadata preservation, byte limits, and nested-call replay. ChangesCursor tool-result processing
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves Computer Use and node_repl replay handling, but native tool results can still reach models with empty or oversized raw content instead of the normalized recovery guidance. This can cause failed actions, misleading recovery, or replay-budget truncation, so the PR is not merge-ready until the result path and related replay issues are addressed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ToolResult
participant ToolResultCompaction
participant CursorRequestBuilder
participant ProtobufRequest
participant CursorReplay
ToolResult->>ToolResultCompaction: normalize and compact content
ToolResultCompaction-->>CursorRequestBuilder: wireOutput and error status
CursorRequestBuilder->>ProtobufRequest: serialize formatted tool result
ProtobufRequest->>CursorReplay: replay result within byte budget
CursorReplay-->>ProtobufRequest: truncation marker when required
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280-298: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winThe new minimal-marker fallback at lines 286-297 is unreachable.
truncateToolResultBlobguarantees that every non-nullreturn already fits the limit it was given: line 128 returns the entry only whenentry.byteLength <= maxBytes, and lines 140, 155, and 164 each return a candidate only after the same check. Line 273 already maps every active entry throughtruncateToolResultBlob(entry, historyBudget), and line 274 removes thenullresults.Therefore, after line 274, every surviving entry satisfies
byteLength <= historyBudget. Whenactive.length === 1,activeBytesequals that single entry'sbyteLength, so the conditionactiveBytes > historyBudgetat line 280 is always false. The re-truncation at line 281 and the whole minimal-marker fallback at lines 286-297 never execute.The
#1866protection is delivered only by theelse ifbranch at lines 299-309, which handles the case where every active entry was dropped asnull. Remove the unreachable block so the retained behavior is the one that actually runs, and so a future reader does not rely on dead protection.♻️ Proposed fix: collapse the unreachable branch
- if (active.length === 1 && active[0] && activeBytes > historyBudget) { - const truncated = truncateToolResultBlob(active[0], historyBudget); - if (truncated) { - active[0] = truncated; - activeBytes = truncated.byteLength; - } else { - const minimal = rootBlobCandidate( - { role: "user", content: [{ type: "text", text: `[Tool Result]\n${CURSOR_TRUNCATION_MARKER.trimStart()}` }] }, - "toolResult", - { messageIndex: active[0].messageIndex, text: `[Tool Result]\n${CURSOR_TRUNCATION_MARKER.trimStart()}` }, - ); - if (minimal.byteLength <= historyBudget) { - active[0] = minimal; - activeBytes = minimal.byteLength; - } else { - active.length = 0; - activeBytes = 0; - } - } - } else if (active.length === 0 && history.length > activeStart) { + // Every entry that survived truncateToolResultBlob() already fits historyBudget, so the only + // remaining gap is an active result that was dropped entirely (`#1866`). + if (active.length === 0 && history.length > activeStart) { const lastActive = history[history.length - 1];🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`:
- Around line 246-248: Update the history-result formatting flow around
formatToolResultToWireText so each result receives only a per-result share of
the total CURSOR_EXTERNAL_ROOT_BYTE_LIMIT rather than the full root budget.
Reserve space for the result prefix, formatting headers, and root envelope when
calculating that share, and apply the same bounded calculation at every
history-result call site so combined replay output remains within the root
budget.
Apply the same fix in `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts` at line 376.
- Around line 517-523: Update the external replay turn construction in the
current tool-result handling flow to use formatted.wireOutput instead of
formatted.text when populating AssistantMessageSchema.text, preserving the tool
call ID and tool name metadata while retaining the existing error/result prefix.
In `@src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts`:
- Line 220: Update the requestMessage/toolResultToText serialization path around
formatToolResultToWireText to explicitly document that no byte budget applies,
or pass the appropriate maxBytes limit if this path has a budget. Add a focused
regression test covering the emitted wire output, including normalized is_error
and rewritten error text behavior.
In `@src/adapters/cursor/tool-result-compaction.ts`:
- Around line 9-52: Restrict generic tool names such as click, scroll, and
screenshot to matching node_repl or computer_use namespaces in
isNodeReplOrComputerUseTool, while keeping only unambiguous names eligible for
name-only matching. In tests/cursor-computer-use-replay.test.ts lines 42-48,
pass a Computer Use namespace for the positive click case and add negative cases
for click with mcp__playwright and js with mcp__quickjs.
- Around line 106-114: Update the SkyComputerUseError handling around the
focus-change match so the fabricated “user changed” sentence is prepended only
when the text matches “The user changed '...”. For other SkyComputerUseError
messages, prepend only the recovery guidance without inventing an application or
focus-change cause.
- Around line 93-104: Update the non-Computer-Use, non-error branch in the
empty-output handling of the tool-result compaction flow to preserve the
original text when EMPTY_EXEC_OUTPUT_REGEX matched an explicit empty-output
wrapper; only convert genuinely whitespace-only input to an empty string, while
keeping the existing error and Computer Use behavior unchanged.
- Around line 187-205: In src/adapters/cursor/tool-result-compaction.ts lines
187-205, update the AX context extraction loop to recognize window headers
rather than any line containing “window”, preserve the full URL in the trailer
note, and raise or remove the window text truncation. In
tests/cursor-computer-use-replay.test.ts lines 111-125, assert the complete URL
https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex/issues/1866 so the regression test
verifies untruncated context.
Apply the same fix in `@tests/cursor-computer-use-replay.test.ts` around lines 111
- 125: The test currently checks only a URL prefix and must verify the complete
preserved URL.
In `@tests/cursor-computer-use-replay.test.ts`:
- Around line 200-290: Add a multi-turn replay test around
encodeCursorRunRequest with several consecutive oversized toolResult messages
after assistant tool calls. Assert rootPromptMessagesJson remains within
CURSOR_EXTERNAL_ROOT_BYTE_LIMIT, the final tool result is retained, and an
earlier turn also survives compaction; cover both trailing-result preservation
and multi-result budget enforcement.
- Around line 42-48: Update the test for isNodeReplOrComputerUseTool so bare
generic names such as "click" are not classified as Computer Use; replace the
positive assertion with a negative case using a foreign namespace and preserve
positive coverage for properly namespaced node_repl and computer-use tools.
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In `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`:
- Around line 280-298: Remove the unreachable single-entry re-truncation and
minimal-marker fallback guarded by activeBytes > historyBudget after the active
entries have already been processed by truncateToolResultBlob; preserve the
existing active-empty handling in the subsequent branch that provides the `#1866`
protection.
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Give each replayed tool result a 32 KiB share of the external root budget so multi-turn Computer Use history is not dropped wholesale, use wireOutput in external turn steps, and stop treating bare generic action names as CU. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Tighten tool classification, preserve non-CU empty markers and full AX URLs, stop inventing Sky focus changes, and cover request-builder normalization in tests. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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In `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`:
- Around line 583-590: Update toolResultPart and toolResultContentItems so
string-backed tool results use formatted.text, preserving decoded image parts
for structured content and appending normalization guidance when the text was
changed. Add a native ConversationStepSchema regression test that decodes a
node_repl empty-output result and verifies the normalized recovery instruction
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| function toolResultPart(message: OcxToolResultMessage, decoded?: DecodedResultPart[], maxImages?: number) { | ||
| const formatted = formatToolResultToWireText(message, { maxBytes: historyToolResultBodyByteLimit() }); | ||
| return create(McpToolResultSchema, { | ||
| result: { | ||
| case: "success", | ||
| value: create(McpSuccessSchema, { | ||
| isError: message.isError, | ||
| isError: formatted.isError, | ||
| content: toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages), |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Use normalized text in native tool-result content.
Line 584 creates formatted, but Line 590 passes the original message to toolResultContentItems. For string content, that helper serializes the raw body. A native McpToolResult can therefore have isError: true while the model receives only Output: <empty>, without the get_app_state recovery instruction. Raw string screenshots and base64 payloads also bypass compaction in this path.
Use formatted.text for string-backed tool results. Preserve decoded image parts for structured content, and append normalization guidance when it changes the textual result. Add a native ConversationStepSchema regression test that decodes a node_repl empty-output result.
Proposed minimum fix for string tool results
-function toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages) {
+function toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages, textOverride?: string) {
const parts = decoded ?? decodeResultParts(message);
if (!parts) {
- const text = typeof message.content === "string" ? message.content : "";
+ const text = textOverride ?? (typeof message.content === "string" ? message.content : "");
// ...
}
}
- content: toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages),
+ content: toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages, formatted.text),📝 Committable suggestion
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| function toolResultPart(message: OcxToolResultMessage, decoded?: DecodedResultPart[], maxImages?: number) { | |
| const formatted = formatToolResultToWireText(message, { maxBytes: historyToolResultBodyByteLimit() }); | |
| return create(McpToolResultSchema, { | |
| result: { | |
| case: "success", | |
| value: create(McpSuccessSchema, { | |
| isError: message.isError, | |
| isError: formatted.isError, | |
| content: toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages), | |
| function toolResultPart(message: OcxToolResultMessage, decoded?: DecodedResultPart[], maxImages?: number) { | |
| const formatted = formatToolResultToWireText(message, { maxBytes: historyToolResultBodyByteLimit() }); | |
| return create(McpToolResultSchema, { | |
| result: { | |
| case: "success", | |
| value: create(McpSuccessSchema, { | |
| isError: formatted.isError, | |
| content: toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages, formatted.text), |
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In `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts` around lines 583 - 590, Update
toolResultPart and toolResultContentItems so string-backed tool results use
formatted.text, preserving decoded image parts for structured content and
appending normalization guidance when the text was changed. Add a native
ConversationStepSchema regression test that decodes a node_repl empty-output
result and verifies the normalized recovery instruction is delivered.
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The direction is valuable, but current head 47b6c2eae still has one real replay gap and is 125 commits behind current dev.
In src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts, toolResultPart() computes formatted = formatToolResultToWireText(...) but uses only formatted.isError; toolResultContentItems(message, decoded, maxImages) still serializes the original string-backed content. Therefore an empty node_repl result can be marked as an error while the native ConversationStepSchema receives the old empty text instead of the recovery instruction. The root-prompt JSON tests do not cover this protobuf-native channel.
Please:
- For string-backed tool results, serialize
formatted.textinto the native result content. - Preserve decoded image parts for structured content; when normalization changes the text, append or substitute the normalized guidance without dropping valid image items.
- Add a regression that decodes the actual
ConversationStepSchemafor an emptynode_replresult and asserts the recovery instruction is present and correlated to the same tool call. - Rebase onto current
dev, then rerun the focused Cursor suites, typecheck, privacy scan, and exact-head cross-platform CI.
I am not asking for broader compaction changes. Once this native replay boundary is fixed, the rest of the compaction/error direction remains useful.
fix(cursor): normalize empty and failure-state Computer Use tool results (#1920)
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Superseded by #2038 (merged to dev as c42d1eb), a scoped re-implementation per the campaign disposition: empty-output and runtime-failure-state normalization is applied at the NATIVE toolResultPart (McpText + McpSuccess.isError) as well as both external replay sites, proven by a fromBinary ConversationStep decode test. The screenshot-stripping / AXTree compaction half of this PR is deliberately deferred — the native path bounds step size by real serialized bytes already. Thanks for the thorough original work; credited in the commit. |
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The small normalization redesign from #2038 is now in Follow-up #2044 fixes that specific boundary and preserves image-bearing, undecodable-image, and encrypted result behavior. Local exact-head verification is green (97 focused Cursor tests, typecheck, privacy scan); independent review and CI are pending. |
…lts (lidge-jun#1920) Scoped re-implementation of PR lidge-jun#1920 per the campaign disposition (REDESIGN-SMALL: apply formatted text at the native toolResultPart plus a decode test). Resolves the lidge-jun#1866 empty/truncated Computer Use results. - New tool-result-normalize.ts: blank or empty-exec-wrapper output on node_repl / Computer Use tools becomes an actionable error; known runtime failure states reported as plain text (SkyComputerUseError, sky is not defined, redeclared identifier, unsupported import) are marked isError with one-line recovery guidance. Everything else passes byte-identical. - Wired at all four wire sites: toolResultContentItems (native McpText), toolResultPart (McpSuccess.isError), toolResultToText (replay text), and the two sites that bypass it — the externalModel branch of conversationTurns (the cursor/grok-4.6 repro path) and the root-prompt prefix. - Decode test proves the native ConversationStep wire carries the normalized text and isError via fromBinary, plus unit rows per failure state and byte-identical passes for non-computer-use tools. Out of scope (deferred, disclosed on the issue): screenshot stripping and AXTree text compaction from the original PR — the native path already bounds step size by real serialized bytes, dropping images oldest-first. Credit: original PR lidge-jun#1920.
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[Compatibility] Cursor Computer Use / node_repl tool results come back empty or truncated).node_repltool calls in Cursor adapters (src/adapters/cursor/tool-result-compaction.ts):execwrappers into actionable error messages with guidance to inspectnode_replhistory or emit output.SkyComputerUseError,Identifier 'x' has already been declared,sky is not defined,unsupported import in exec) as recoverable tool errors with clear remediation steps.data:image/...,"screenshot": "...", raw JPEG/PNG byte markers) to avoid overflowing external replay budgets while preserving actionable text.AXTree) compaction that preserves vital application context (active window title, URL, focused controls, and immediate actionable controls) under tight byte constraints.src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.tsandsrc/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts):[Tool Error]on wire replays.Verification
tests/cursor-computer-use-replay.test.ts(16 test cases) covering:SkyComputerUseErrorapplication state change detection and guidance.node_replvariable redeclarations, missingskyglobals, and unsupported imports.cursor/grok-4.6.bun run typecheck(Passed, 0 errors)bun run privacy:scan(Passed)bun test tests/cursor-*.test.ts(617 tests passed across 33 files, 0 failures)Checklist
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