[saphid]

Problem

T3 always writes a provider event log (provider-logs/events.<thread>.log). For every other provider it skips per-token and streaming records: Codex item/*Delta methods, Claude content_block_delta and thinking-token counters (#19789), ACP agent_message_chunk / agent_thought_chunk, and OpenCode message.part.delta plus running tool snapshots.

Cursor logs every SDK interaction.update, and none of them are filtered. So every text-delta and thinking-delta (a few characters each, about 300 bytes of envelope per line), every token-delta counter, every shell-output-delta chunk and every partial-tool-call snapshot becomes its own log line. Each partial-tool-call repeats the tool's whole input so far, so a streamed file write is logged over and over. Logs are capped at 10 MiB × 10 files per thread and 512 MiB in total, so a few heavy Cursor turns push out the diagnostics that matter.

Change

shouldPersistProviderEvent now drops Cursor interaction.update records whose update type is text-delta, thinking-delta, token-delta, shell-output-delta or partial-tool-call, using the same set-lookup pattern as the ACP filter beside it. Lifecycle records are still logged: tool-call-started / tool-call-completed (which carry the full tool call and result), step-*, turn-ended with usage, summary*, user-message-appended, tool-requests-listed and tool-call-delta. The Cursor adapter treats partial-tool-call as a full snapshot (active.toolCall = toolCall), the same kind of record as OpenCode's running tool snapshots, which this logger already drops.

Scope and approval

Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so no prior issue: one filter rule in one function, following the existing per-provider rules, plus one test. Nothing the user sees changes; the change only affects what goes into the local diagnostic log.

Overlap search: the local PR index and gh search (cursor provider log delta, text-delta log, shouldPersistProviderEvent, issues cursor events.log) found no PR or issue covering this. #19789 is the merged precedent for Claude. #24663 (coalescing Cursor reply text) touches neither the logger nor CursorAgentSdk.ts.

Verification

• Red on main: the new EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts case "drops Cursor streaming deltas while keeping its lifecycle updates" fails with expected [ … (8) ] to deeply equal [ … (3) ], meaning all five delta records were written.
• Green: vp test run src/provider/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts, 14/14 passed.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (15/15) all passed.
• Benchmark: a Node script drives the real makeEventNdjsonLogStore with Cursor-shaped interaction.update envelopes, built exactly as CursorAgentSdk writes them. The modeled turn has 400 thinking deltas, a 1 MiB shell command in 4 KiB chunks, a 32 KiB file write streamed as 200 partial-tool-call snapshots, and a 1,600-delta reply with token counters.

Workload	main	this branch
Full modeled turn (2,783 updates)	2,783 lines, 5,269,208 bytes	7 lines, 2,437 bytes
Text, thinking and token deltas only (2,320 updates)	2,320 lines, 694,800 bytes	0 lines, 0 bytes

CPU time for the logging went from roughly 33–52 ms to about 11 ms per modeled turn. That measurement is noisy and small; the main saving is disk writes and log retention. How often Cursor sends shell and partial-tool-call updates in real use is modeled, not captured from a live Cursor session. The text-delta row is the case every Cursor reply hits.

• Not checked: a live Cursor session (the provider needs a Cursor account). Nested tool-call-delta subagent updates are left as they are.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 1 round with GPT-6.1 Sol on high. Sol verdict: approved.

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[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 63058ae

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Cursor streaming deltas are omitted from provider logs while lifecycle and unrecognized updates remain recorded. This reduces diagnostic write volume without changing event delivery or orchestration logging.

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Walkthrough

The NDJSON logger filters transient Cursor interaction.update records before persistence. A test verifies that lifecycle updates remain in the thread log.

Changes: Cursor event logging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Filter transient updates apps/server/src/provider/EventNdjsonLogger.ts, apps/server/src/provider/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts	The logger filters updates with types text-delta, thinking-delta, token-delta, shell-output-delta, and partial-tool-call, including tool-call-delta records with a nested text-delta task update. It retains malformed or unrecognized updates. The test verifies that lifecycle updates remain in the log.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 63058

Cursor turns no longer write every streamed token delta to the provider logs, which cuts log volume substantially. Lifecycle and summary records are still kept. No merge-blocking risk was found.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: Cursor turns no longer write every streamed token to provider logs. It matches the filter added to shouldPersistProviderEvent for Cursor text-delta, thinking-delta, to…
Description check		The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each one has real content. The Problem section states the expected behavior and the cause. The Chang…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: Cursor turns no longer write every streamed token to provider logs. It matches the filter added to shouldPersistProviderEvent for Cursor text-delta, thinking-delta, token-delta, shell-output-delta, and partial-tool-call records. The title follows the conventional commit form the template suggests.

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The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each one has real content. The Problem section states the expected behavior and the cause. The Change section explains the filter and which lifecycle records remain. The Scope section explains why no issue is linked and says that no prior issue or PR covers the bug. The Verification section gives a red-then-green test result, the repo check results, and a benchmark. It also states what was not checked, which is a live Cursor session. The template's guidance on the agent model is met by the line naming the model and harness. The Scope section gives an explanation for having no linked issue, which the template allows for small obvious fixes.

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Follow-up Comments

Cover nested tool-call-delta persistence.

258-310: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Cover nested tool-call-delta persistence.

The current assertion omits tool-call-delta. Add the real nested update shape so the test fails if the logger filters subagent streaming records.

Suggested fix

       const retained = [
         { type: "tool-call-started", callId: "call-1", modelCallId: "m-1", toolCall },
         { type: "tool-call-completed", callId: "call-1", modelCallId: "m-1", toolCall },
+        {
+          type: "tool-call-delta",
+          callId: "call-1",
+          modelCallId: "m-1",
+          taskUpdate: { type: "text-delta", text: "nested subagent output" },
+        },
         { type: "turn-ended" },
       ].map(cursorUpdate);

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts around
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Update the “drops Cursor streaming deltas” test’s retained events to include a
`tool-call-delta` with the nested `taskUpdate` text-delta shape, and keep it in
the expected persisted records so the assertion verifies nested subagent
streaming records are retained.

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Review requested

Date (UTC)	Reviewer	Where
2026-11-13	Julius	Discord DM

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Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 7c854ce

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Evidence

Ran the original prompt on both commits using real Cursor Composer 2.5, fresh databases and empty git repositories. Both turns streamed normally, created 60 fruit entries in notes.md (+62 lines including the heading), and reported 400. Environment for both captures: Linux, Chromium, 1280×800 CSS viewport, light theme. The machine-label panel is cropped out.

Before	After
313f601fb2	63058aeb87
994 transient updates, 446,283 bytes: text 524, thinking 21, token 445, shell output 3, partial tool call 1.	Zero records for all five transient types. Four tool-start/completion pairs and turn completion remain.
Streaming recording	Streaming recording
Log counts and timestamped record index · Redacted native log · Runtime transcript and generated file	Log counts and timestamped record index · Redacted native log · Runtime transcript and generated file

Reproduction driver · Log-analysis script · Diagnostic-image renderer.

Diagnostic images summarize actual persisted logs; they are not application UI screenshots. Byte counts precede redaction. Native-log payloads containing setup details or tool filesystem paths were omitted from the uploaded copies.

Not shown:

• Nested subagent lifecycle events wrapped in tool-call-delta were not exercised: the reported workload did not launch a subagent.
• Disk syscall counts and retention eviction were not measured; evidence establishes the persisted native-record and byte difference.