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fix(cursor): compact and normalize Computer Use / node_repl tool results #1920

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fix(cursor): compact and normalize Computer Use / node_repl tool resu…
Yuxin-Qiao Aug 17, 2026
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fix(cursor): cap per-result replay budget and preserve tool correlation
Yuxin-Qiao Aug 18, 2026
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fix(cursor): address Computer Use replay review follow-ups
Yuxin-Qiao Aug 18, 2026
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merge dev into fix/issue-1866-cursor-computer-use
Yuxin-Qiao Aug 18, 2026
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86 changes: 67 additions & 19 deletions src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts
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Expand Up @@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ import {
CURSOR_SHELL_ALIAS_SYSTEM_NOTE,
OCX_RESPONSES_TOOL_PROVIDER,
} from "./tool-definitions";
import {
CURSOR_TRUNCATION_MARKER,
compactComputerUsePayload,
formatToolResultToWireText,
} from "./tool-result-compaction";

const encoder = new TextEncoder();
const decoder = new TextDecoder();
Expand All @@ -67,6 +72,17 @@ export const CURSOR_ROUTING_LEVEL_PARAMETER_ID = "optimization";
export const CURSOR_EXTERNAL_ROOT_BLOB_LIMIT = 192;
/** Approximate prompt-size guard; tool schemas and protocol framing consume context separately. */
export const CURSOR_EXTERNAL_ROOT_BYTE_LIMIT = 512 * 1024;
/**
* Per-tool-result share of the root budget for replayed history. The whole-root limit cannot be
* used per result: N results would each be allowed the full budget and force turn pruning (#1866).
*/
export const CURSOR_HISTORY_TOOL_RESULT_BYTE_LIMIT = 32 * 1024;
/** Headroom for the wire header, the [Tool Result] prefix, and the JSON envelope. */
const CURSOR_TOOL_RESULT_ENVELOPE_HEADROOM = 512;

function historyToolResultBodyByteLimit(): number {
return Math.max(0, CURSOR_HISTORY_TOOL_RESULT_BYTE_LIMIT - CURSOR_TOOL_RESULT_ENVELOPE_HEADROOM);
}

/** Runtime timezone for protobuf RequestContextEnv (dynamic, never hardcoded). */
function runtimeTimeZone(): string {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -125,7 +141,19 @@ function rootBlobCandidate(
function truncateToolResultBlob(entry: RootBlobCandidate, maxBytes: number): RootBlobCandidate | null {
if (entry.byteLength <= maxBytes) return entry;
if (entry.role !== "toolResult" || entry.text === undefined) return null;
const marker = "\n…[truncated for Cursor external replay budget]";
const marker = CURSOR_TRUNCATION_MARKER;

// 1. Try structured compaction first for Computer Use / large payloads
const compacted = compactComputerUsePayload(entry.text, maxBytes);
if (compacted !== entry.text) {
const candidate = rootBlobCandidate(
{ role: "user", content: [{ type: "text", text: compacted }] },
"toolResult",
{ messageIndex: entry.messageIndex, text: compacted },
);
if (candidate.byteLength <= maxBytes) return candidate;
}

const encoded = encoder.encode(entry.text);
// Leave headroom for JSON envelope (`role`/`content` wrapper) around the truncated text.
let keepBytes = Math.min(encoded.byteLength, Math.max(0, maxBytes - encoder.encode(marker).byteLength - 96));
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -229,8 +257,11 @@ function rootPromptMessages(request: CursorRunRequest, requestScope: CursorBlobR
}
// Assistant tool CALLS are intentionally NOT replayed as visible "[Tool Call]" text here.
} else if (message.role === "toolResult") {
const prefix = message.isError ? "[Tool Error]" : "[Tool Result]";
const text = `${prefix}\n${toolResultToText(message)}`;
const { wireOutput, isError } = formatToolResultToWireText(message, {
maxBytes: historyToolResultBodyByteLimit(),
});
const prefix = isError ? "[Tool Error]" : "[Tool Result]";
const text = `${prefix}\n${wireOutput}`;
entries.push(rootBlobCandidate(
{ role: "user", content: [{ type: "text", text }] },
"toolResult",
Expand All @@ -249,8 +280,8 @@ function rootPromptMessages(request: CursorRunRequest, requestScope: CursorBlobR
const historyBudget = Math.max(0, CURSOR_EXTERNAL_ROOT_BYTE_LIMIT - systemBytes);

// Retain the active trailing tool-result block when it fits (may truncate text).
// If even a truncation marker cannot fit the remaining budget, omit it rather than
// emitting an oversized root blob.
// If even a truncation marker cannot fit the remaining budget, retain a minimal marker
// rather than dropping the active tool result completely (#1866).
let activeStart = history.length;
while (activeStart > 0 && history[activeStart - 1]?.role === "toolResult") activeStart -= 1;
const active = history
Expand All @@ -268,8 +299,30 @@ function rootPromptMessages(request: CursorRunRequest, requestScope: CursorBlobR
active[0] = truncated;
activeBytes = truncated.byteLength;
} else {
active.length = 0;
activeBytes = 0;
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) {
const lastActive = history[history.length - 1];
if (lastActive) {
const minimal = rootBlobCandidate(
{ role: "user", content: [{ type: "text", text: `[Tool Result]\n${CURSOR_TRUNCATION_MARKER.trimStart()}` }] },
"toolResult",
{ messageIndex: lastActive.messageIndex, text: `[Tool Result]\n${CURSOR_TRUNCATION_MARKER.trimStart()}` },
);
if (minimal.byteLength <= historyBudget) {
active.push(minimal);
}
}
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -472,14 +525,7 @@ function toolResultContentItems(
}

function toolResultToText(message: OcxToolResultMessage): string {
return [
"[tool_result]",
`call_id: ${message.toolCallId}`,
`name: ${namespacedToolName(message.toolNamespace, message.toolName)}`,
`is_error: ${message.isError}`,
"output:",
contentToText(message.content),
].join("\n");
return formatToolResultToWireText(message, { maxBytes: historyToolResultBodyByteLimit() }).wireOutput;
}

function argBytes(value: unknown): Uint8Array {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -535,11 +581,12 @@ function toolCallStep(
}

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: &lt;empty&gt;, 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),
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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.

}),
},
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -631,12 +678,13 @@ function conversationTurns(
}
if (message.role === "toolResult") {
if (!current) continue;
const formatted = formatToolResultToWireText(message, { maxBytes: historyToolResultBodyByteLimit() });
if (externalModel) {
const prefix = message.isError ? "[Tool Error]" : "[Tool Result]";
const prefix = formatted.isError ? "[Tool Error]" : "[Tool Result]";
current.steps.push(storeCursorBlob(toBinary(ConversationStepSchema, create(ConversationStepSchema, {
message: {
case: "assistantMessage",
value: create(AssistantMessageSchema, { text: `${prefix}\n${contentToText(message.content)}` }),
value: create(AssistantMessageSchema, { text: `${prefix}\n${formatted.wireOutput}` }),
},
})), requestScope));
continue;
Expand All @@ -649,7 +697,7 @@ function conversationTurns(
current.steps.push(storeCursorBlob(toBinary(ConversationStepSchema, create(ConversationStepSchema, {
message: {
case: "assistantMessage",
value: create(AssistantMessageSchema, { text: toolResultToText(message) }),
value: create(AssistantMessageSchema, { text: formatted.wireOutput }),
},
})), requestScope));
}
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11 changes: 3 additions & 8 deletions src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts
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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import {
isCursorWaitTool,
} from "./tool-definitions";
import { lookupCursorThreadConversation } from "./thread-continuity";
import { formatToolResultToWireText } from "./tool-result-compaction";

/** Probe-verified Cursor Connect boundaries, with byte headroom for the enclosing field. */
export const CURSOR_TOOL_COUNT_LIMIT = 330;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -223,15 +224,9 @@ function contentPartToText(part: OcxContentPart | OcxAssistantContentPart): stri
}
}

/** Request JSON messages have no external replay byte budget; normalize only, do not cap size. */
function toolResultToText(message: OcxToolResultMessage): string {
return [
"[tool_result]",
`call_id: ${message.toolCallId}`,
`name: ${namespacedToolName(message.toolNamespace, message.toolName)}`,
`is_error: ${message.isError}`,
"output:",
contentToText(message.content),
].join("\n");
return formatToolResultToWireText(message).wireOutput;
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function contentToText(content: string | readonly (OcxContentPart | OcxAssistantContentPart)[]): string {
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