fix(cursor): stop hide-from-user policy and user-role tool-result replay (#1992)

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Summary

• Cursor adapter system notes and native-exec denials told the model to hide blocked access and silently switch tools. Nested agents treated that as prompt injection.
• Tool results in rootPromptMessagesJson were serialized as role: user, so Cursor wrapped them as <user_query>. They now replay as assistant-role [Tool Result] / [Tool Error] history, and tool continuations keep resumeAction.
• Neighboring-agent catalog nudges treat GJC read / find / bash as covering Cursor-native Read / Glob / Bash, so the note no longer contradicts the client's advertised tools.

Closes #1992

Verification

• bun test tests/cursor-tool-definitions.test.ts tests/cursor-native-exec.test.ts tests/cursor-native-exec-policy.test.ts tests/cursor-blob.test.ts tests/cursor-tool-continuation.test.ts
• bun x tsc --noEmit

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• Bug Fixes

  • Improved guidance when local filesystem, network, or shell execution is unavailable.
  • Updated tool-result handling for more accurate replay and display.
  • Recognized common alternative tool names and provided clearer fallback instructions.

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  • Expanded coverage for execution policies, tool aliases, unavailable tools, and assistant-attributed tool results.

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• src/adapters/cursor/native-exec-fs.ts
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• src/adapters/cursor/tool-definitions.ts
• tests/cursor-native-exec-policy.test.ts
• tests/cursor-native-exec.test.ts
• tests/cursor-tool-definitions.test.ts

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Walkthrough

Cursor adapter guidance now states native-execution routing constraints without concealment instructions. Tool alias matching recognizes lowercase equivalents. Replayed tool-result blobs now use assistant-role payloads, with updated regression tests.

Changes

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native execution guidance src/adapters/cursor/native-exec-*.ts, tests/cursor-native-exec*.test.ts	Native filesystem, network, and shell messages now state routing constraints directly and omit concealment instructions. Denial tests verify the revised wording.
Tool alias detection and fallback guidance src/adapters/cursor/tool-definitions.ts, tests/cursor-tool-definitions.test.ts	Tool guidance recognizes configured aliases case-insensitively and provides bridge or edit-tool fallbacks. Tests cover lowercase read, find, and bash aliases.
Assistant-role tool-result replay src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts, tests/cursor-blob.test.ts	Tool-result root blobs use assistant-role text payloads, including truncated, marker-only, and historical entries. Replay tests verify the role and [Tool Result] marker.

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

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The changes remove concealment guidance, use assistant-role tool-result blobs, and update tool aliases, but no resumeAction change is shown.	Implement and test resumeAction for external tool continuations, replacing the synthetic userMessageAction and Continue text.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The source and test changes are directly related to the linked issue objectives and do not show unrelated scope.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the Cursor policy and tool-result replay changes that form the main focus of the pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/adapters/cursor/native-exec-fs.ts`:
- Around line 49-50: Update NATIVE_LOCAL_EXEC_DISABLED and the related denial
handling for read, directory-list, and grep operations to provide
host-shell-neutral recovery guidance covering both POSIX commands and PowerShell
5.1 equivalents, including if ($?) chaining. Add or update assertions in the
native execution policy tests to verify this guidance on every platform and
enforce at most one corrected bridge attempt.

In `@src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts`:
- Around line 179-180: Update the replay contract comment near the SHA-256 blob
ID description to mention both [Tool Result] and [Tool Error] markers, matching
the serialization behavior in rootPromptMessages when message.isError is true.

In `@src/adapters/cursor/tool-definitions.ts`:
- Line 646: Update the fallback note in the hasBareExec branch to interpolate
the actual shellBridgeLabel instead of naming both shell_command and
exec_command, ensuring the guidance matches the exact catalog tool exposed to
the model.

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• src/adapters/cursor/tool-definitions.ts
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Reviewed and validated locally: merged this head onto current dev in a scratch worktree — typecheck clean (tsc 7.0.2, 1126 files) and the Cursor suites (cursor-native-exec-policy, cursor-tool-definitions, cursor-blob, cursor-native-exec) pass 129/0. The change does exactly what #1992 requires: strips the hide-from-user / silently-call operational prose from all three native-exec denial paths and the guidance note, replays tool results as assistant-role root payloads instead of user, keeps resumeAction, and adds the PowerShell-safe equivalents. Tests assert the removed strings stay removed.