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Three failures in Cursor SDK chats, traced to how ADE drives @cursor/sdk 1.0.27 rather than to bad credentials:

Stale access token (auth-error loops). The SDK exchanges the API key for a short-lived access token once per worker and only re-exchanges on a Connect Unauthenticated fault. An in-stream expiry (~60 min) surfaces as "Authentication error If you are logged in, try logging out and back in." and every later send on that worker fails instantly — the key is fine, the worker is spent. ADE now recognises that exact signature (CURSOR_SDK_STALE_ACCESS_TOKEN_TEXT, never matched by bad-key errors), poisons the worker, resumes the same agent id in a fresh worker (fresh token exchange) and re-sends once: silently with the verbatim prompt when nothing streamed yet, with a continuation instruction when the token died mid-turn. A second failure surfaces one honest card.

Fork. A same-provider Cursor fork seeded the new agent with a ~20-line conversation tail. It now replays the full fitted transcript (the same path cross-provider forks already use), and agent-rotation recovery does the same. providerForkIsContextSeededproviderForkReplaysTranscript.

Mid-turn steering. The SDK has no mid-run message API, so Cursor gets the same active-turn split Send control Claude has, with two modes: Interrupt & continue (default — cancel run → settle → send as the next turn on the same thread; queued steers preserved via a consume-once flag that survives settle timeouts) and Send after turn. One canonical ACTIVE_TURN_DISPATCH_MODES table in shared/types/chat.ts drives the desktop composer/pane, the service guards, the TUI, and a hand-mirrored iOS capability; dispatchSteer and ade chat message --kind interrupt-replace route Cursor through the same redirect, and ade chat steer gains --dispatch <inline|interrupt>. OpenCode/Pi/Droid keep their existing stop_and_clear interrupt-replace contract.

Quality: 3 review rounds to an empty gate; every accepted finding fixed and pinned by a named regression test (or explicit alternate verification for two unreachable defence-in-depth guards). Tests: 852 agentChatService + 132 composer + 273 pane + 19 shared + 12 protocol + 425 CLI/TUI, shard 8/8 green. Docs, CLI, TUI, and iOS parity updated; iOS Swift is swiftc -parse clean (full xcodebuild pending local disk space — flagged to the author).

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  • New Features

    • Added provider-aware active-turn chat delivery modes, including inline, queued, and interrupt options where supported.
    • Added CLI support for selecting inline or interrupt steering.
    • Improved desktop, mobile, and TUI controls with provider-specific labels, defaults, and available actions.
    • Cursor sessions now support transcript replay during forks and improved recovery after authentication or session failures.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of interrupted runs, queued messages, stale access tokens, retries, and authentication errors.
    • Added clearer validation and provider-specific error messages for unsupported delivery modes.
  • Documentation

    • Updated CLI guidance for steering modes and Cursor fork limitations.

arul28 and others added 3 commits August 18, 2026 18:33
Three failures in Cursor SDK chats, all traced to how ADE drives @cursor/sdk
1.0.27 rather than to bad credentials:

- Stale access token. The SDK exchanges the API key for a short-lived
  access token once per worker and only re-exchanges on a Connect
  Unauthenticated fault; an in-stream expiry (~60 min) surfaces as
  "Authentication error If you are logged in, try logging out and back
  in." and every later send on that worker fails instantly. ADE now
  recognises that exact signature, poisons the worker, resumes the SAME
  agent id in a fresh worker (fresh token exchange) and re-sends once —
  silently when nothing streamed yet, with a continuation instruction
  when the token died mid-turn. A second failure surfaces one honest
  card. Bad-key errors never trigger it.

- Fork. A same-provider Cursor fork seeded the new agent with a 20-line
  conversation tail. It now replays the full fitted transcript (same
  path cross-provider forks use), and so does agent-rotation recovery.

- Mid-turn steering. The SDK has no mid-run message API, so Cursor now
  gets the same active-turn split Send control Claude has, with two
  modes: Interrupt & continue (default: cancel run → settle → send as
  the next turn on the same thread, queued steers preserved) and Send
  after turn. One canonical per-provider dispatch table in shared/types
  drives desktop, TUI and (mirrored) iOS; dispatchSteer and
  `ade chat message --kind interrupt-replace` route Cursor the same way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 5 named regression tests for the quality findings (override forwarding on
  the Cursor redirect, single mention expansion, queued steers surviving a
  settle timeout, "already being dispatched" cancel copy) + consume-once
  assertions on the rotation replay test.
- CLI: `ade chat steer --dispatch <inline|interrupt>` so atomic active-turn
  delivery is reachable from the CLI; help/README fork copy reflects the
  full-transcript Cursor fork.
- TUI: /steer pane lists the dispatch commands the session's provider
  accepts; queue_full copy names the actual agent.
- iOS: staged-strip promote buttons gated per mode + on the
  chat.dispatchSteer host action (Cursor gets Interrupt & continue);
  WorkActiveSendCapability mirror test.
- Docs: chat/ade-code/ios-companion/remote-commands brought to final code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Provider-aware chat steering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dispatch contracts and provider capability matrix
apps/desktop/src/shared/types/chat.ts, apps/desktop/src/shared/types/chat.test.ts
Defines provider-specific dispatch modes, defaults, interrupt behavior, unsupported-mode errors, and transcript-replay fork semantics.
Cursor transcript replay and stale-token recovery
apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/agentChatService.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkProtocol.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/*test.ts
Adds full transcript replay for Cursor forks and rotations. Adds stale-token detection, retry, continuation, persistence, truncation, and recovery tests.
Interrupt-and-continue runtime orchestration
apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/agentChatService.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/agentChatService.test.ts
Adds provider validation and interrupt-and-continue handling for Cursor and Droid, including queued Cursor steer preservation and promotion.
Desktop provider-aware active-turn controls
apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatComposer.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatPane.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatComposer.test.tsx
Derives controls and callbacks from provider capabilities. Filters unsupported modes and forwards supported dispatch modes.
CLI and TUI steering dispatch
apps/ade-cli/src/cli.ts, apps/ade-cli/src/cli.test.ts, apps/ade-cli/src/tuiClient/*, apps/ade-cli/README.md
Adds CLI dispatch normalization and forwarding for regular and personal chats. Updates TUI provider validation, command palettes, messages, tests, and documentation.
iOS Work Chat capability integration
apps/ios/ADE/Views/Work/WorkModels.swift, apps/ios/ADE/Views/Work/WorkChatSessionView.swift, apps/ios/ADE/Views/Work/WorkSessionDestinationView.swift, apps/ios/ADETests/ADETests.swift
Maps provider capabilities and exposes supported active-turn and manual steer modes with provider-specific defaults and messaging.

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This PR changes chat recovery and dispatch behavior across desktop, iOS, and the CLI, but unresolved cases can reject valid steering actions, hide Droid interrupt support, or misinterpret CLI arguments and target the wrong session. Merge should wait until these bounded correctness issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Possibly related PRs

  • arul28/ADE#791: Extends earlier Claude-focused steering and dispatch behavior across providers.
  • arul28/ADE#727: Overlaps with Cursor runtime orchestration and SDK recovery handling.
  • arul28/ADE#1092: Overlaps with Cursor transcript replay and fork behavior.

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5738-5742: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the stale comment above handoffForkReplaysTranscript.

The comment says Cursor's same-family fork "reseeds context rather than copying a provider thread" and that the panel "must not promise the whole conversation comes along verbatim." The shared provider predicate defines when a fork replays the full transcript. export function providerForkReplaysTranscript(provider: AgentChatProvider | null | undefined): boolean { return provider === "cursor"; }

providerForkReplaysTranscript returns true for "cursor", so handoffForkReplaysTranscript is true for Cursor sessions, and the handoffForkCopy text rendered in that branch explicitly promises "the full transcript replayed verbatim." The old comment describes the pre-PR context-seeding behavior and now contradicts the code it sits above. Update it to describe the new verbatim-replay behavior for Cursor forks.

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In `@apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatPane.tsx` around lines
5738 - 5742, Update the comment above handoffForkReplaysTranscript to reflect
that providerForkReplaysTranscript returns true for Cursor and same-family
Cursor forks replay the full transcript verbatim; remove the stale
context-reseeding and non-promise description while retaining the distinction
for cross-family targets.
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apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/agentChatService.test.ts (1)

15941-15941: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Include the provider label in both Cursor assertions. Match Cursor sessions support only the "interrupt" active-turn dispatch mode. The current regex can also match a Codex error.

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In `@apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/agentChatService.test.ts` at line 15941,
Update both Cursor-related assertions in the active-turn dispatch mode tests to
require the provider label and match the full Cursor-specific error message,
including “Cursor sessions support only the "interrupt" active-turn dispatch
mode.” Keep the assertions rejecting the same invalid mode.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/ade-cli/src/cli.ts`:
- Around line 7686-7688: Add --dispatch and --dispatch-mode to
VALUE_CARRIER_FLAGS so firstStandalonePositional treats their following values
as flag arguments. Preserve flag-order independence for buildChatPlan and
buildPersonalChatPlan while leaving the existing readValue and
normalizeChatSteerDispatchMode behavior unchanged.

In `@apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatPane.tsx`:
- Around line 10827-10832: Update the dispatchMode validation in steerMessage to
use selectedSession?.provider, or the existing
activeTurnInterruptSupported/activeTurnInlineSupported flags, rather than
sessionProvider. Keep the check aligned with the provider receiving the IPC call
and preserve omission of unsupported dispatch modes.

In `@apps/ios/ADE/Views/Work/WorkModels.swift`:
- Around line 399-405: Add a "droid" branch to the providerFamilyKey switch used
by WorkActiveSendCapability, matching the shared contract with
interrupt-and-continue behavior and the appropriate Droid agent label and modes.
Add a regression test covering Droid capability resolution, including interrupt
availability and its default dispatch mode.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/desktop/src/renderer/components/chat/AgentChatPane.tsx`:
- Around line 5738-5742: Update the comment above handoffForkReplaysTranscript
to reflect that providerForkReplaysTranscript returns true for Cursor and
same-family Cursor forks replay the full transcript verbatim; remove the stale
context-reseeding and non-promise description while retaining the distinction
for cross-family targets.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/agentChatService.test.ts`:
- Line 15941: Update both Cursor-related assertions in the active-turn dispatch
mode tests to require the provider label and match the full Cursor-specific
error message, including “Cursor sessions support only the "interrupt"
active-turn dispatch mode.” Keep the assertions rejecting the same invalid mode.
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- Register --dispatch/--dispatch-mode as value-carrier flags so flag order
  can't swallow the session id positional.
- Gate steerMessage's dispatchMode on the session's own provider, not the
  picked model's — the session backend is what receives the IPC call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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arul28 added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2026
The iOS app is not built by PR CI, and three recent merges each landed a
compile break that the next one hid:

- WorkSessionDestinationView passed onOpenParentSession right after
  onOpenLane, but memberwise-init argument order follows property
  declaration order in WorkChatSessionView, where it sits after the model
  controls (#1117).
- SyncService.errorByClearingAmbiguousRouteAuthFailure is called from the
  connection race's task-group closures off the main actor; it is a pure
  NSError rewrite, so mark it nonisolated (#1120).
- WorkChatSessionView.body had grown into one ~300-line expression chain;
  the x86_64 simulator slice hit the type-checker's "unable to type-check
  in reasonable time" ceiling (#1121). Split it into bounded helpers
  (transcriptScrollView / chatColumn / timelineScrollHandlers /
  sessionLifecycleHandlers / feedbackAndSheets) with the identical view
  tree and modifier order.

Verified: xcodebuild build-for-testing succeeds for the ADE scheme
(simulator, both arches); ADETests runs 1494 tests with 6 failures that
predate this branch (PR-list workflow context, roster delta, sync
recovery policy — tracked separately).

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
arul28 added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2026
* ci: build and test the iOS app on every PR

The iOS app was the only ADE surface with zero CI coverage; three
consecutive merges (#1117, #1120, #1121) each landed a Swift compile
break, and 6 ADETests failures accumulated invisibly. New test-ios job on
macos-26 (Xcode 26) builds the ADE scheme for testing and runs ADETests.
It always runs — ci-pass deliberately counts "skipped" as failure — but
exits success immediately on PRs that don't touch apps/ios/** or ci.yml,
so non-iOS PRs pay only runner spin-up. SPM packages cached on
Package.resolved.

Make the suite it gates green (1494 tests, 0 failures locally):
- Three PR-list tests still built 'queue' group fixtures; queue workflows
  were removed in 1b3d33b and the joins narrowed to integration groups.
  Fixtures now use 'integration'; the scoping/filter subjects and every
  other assertion are unchanged.
- testFilterPullRequestListItemsMatchesStateAndSearch asserted a search
  for "review" returns one row, but both fixtures contain "review" in
  title/branch — wrong since the day it landed (4f18960); state
  narrowing is covered by the following assertions.
- testRosterCleanExitAndLegacyPayloadRemainCompatible expected clean exit
  to settle; 31bac9b (#951) made settle declared-only. Expect .ended and
  additionally pin exitCode == 0.
- testRelayCandidateRuntimeIgnoresReadyBeforeAccepted raced a real 350 ms
  negotiation deadline against the host scheduler. The budget is now a
  SyncConnectionRaceBudget field (production defaults byte-identical) and
  the test hook widens only that window; assertions untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: let the iOS test host sign ad-hoc; surface full failure detail

CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO left the test host unsigned, so simulator
keychain access failed with missing-entitlement errors in the account
sign-out and DPoP proof tests (they pass locally, where the host signs
ad-hoc). Also replace output truncation with -quiet and upload the
.xcresult bundle on failure so CI failures are diagnosable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: address review — persist-credentials off, timeout test keeps a real window

- test-ios checkout no longer persists the GITHUB_TOKEN into .git/config;
  xcodebuild runs PR-controlled build phases and needs no authenticated git.
- awaitRelayCandidateReadyForTesting takes an acceptedWindowNanoseconds
  override; the negotiation-timeout test passes 50ms so it exercises the
  timeout path without sitting out the wide scheduling-safe window
  (SyncRecoveryPolicyTests back to ~9s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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