[romil-bijarnia]

Problem

MCP response streams framed with CR-only or mixed line endings are not split into events correctly. A valid response can be lost, combined with the following response and rejected as invalid JSON, or remain buffered on a connection that stays open. The SSE parsing rules allow CR, LF and CRLF line endings.

Change

Recognize pairs of valid line endings as event boundaries, and split multiline data using the same three line endings. Keep CRLF as a single terminator, including when a byte chunk divides it.

Both the stdio MCP bridge and the MCP-over-ACP bridge use this shared reader.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused correction to existing protocol parsing under CONTRIBUTING.md's obvious-bug exception. Open-PR searches for the reader, SSE framing and CR line endings found no matching fix. #19387 addresses media-type casing in the same reader; it does not fix framing. The older framing PR #14431 was closed without merging.

Verification

Checked on macOS with Node 26.12.1.

• The regression fails against main's implementation with a JSON parse error on the CR-only case.
• The focused test covers eight event-boundary combinations and all three data-line endings at every possible two-chunk byte split, including splits inside CRLF and UTF-8 characters. It also checks comments, consecutive events and discarding an unterminated final event.
• For each event boundary, the same test takes the first event from a body that remains open, so buffering until EOF cannot pass.
• Reverting only the data-line splitter to LF/CRLF makes the CR-only multiline assertion fail; the correct splitter is restored in the passing checks below.
• vp run check:changed origin/main --concurrency 2 passed formatting, lint, both Knip checks, typechecks for 34 affected packages, and both selected test files.
• A direct runtime check used real Response bodies that stayed open. CR + CR, CRLF + LF and LF + CR each immediately yielded [{"id":1,"result":{"ok":true}}] through responsePayloads(...).pipe(Stream.take(1)).

No live external MCP server or provider session was used. This changes response parsing and has no client UI changes.

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Verdict: Approved at e78f8f0

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Expands MCP response-stream parsing to accept CR and mixed line endings. The change is limited to event framing, with existing request, authorization, and JSON-handling behavior unchanged.

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The SSE parser now recognizes blank-line separators and event data lines that use LF, CRLF, or lone CR. Tests check payload parsing at every byte split for several separator combinations.

Changes: SSE Parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Line endings and split validation packages/shared/src/mcpResponsePayloads.ts, packages/shared/src/mcpResponsePayloads.test.ts	The parser recognizes LF, CRLF, and lone CR in event separators and data lines. Tests check payloads across byte splits, including multibyte text and keep-alive comments.

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Change: Bug fix

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packages/shared/src/mcpResponsePayloads.test.ts: 2

7-49: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Add a test that asserts an event is emitted while the response body is still open.

The current test closes the stream before parsing starts, and it asserts only the final collected array. A parser that buffers every event until EOF would still pass, and the test would not show that CR-terminated events, such as \r\r, are delivered as soon as their terminator arrives. On a long-lived MCP response, EOF-deferred delivery holds each response until the server closes the connection. The author's open-body check is not in the suite.

Add a case where the body stays open. Assert the payload inside the stream before closing the controller. If the parser waits for EOF, controller.close() never runs and the test fails at the project timeout.

Suggested fix

+it.effect("delivers a CR-terminated event while the response body stays open", () =>
+  Effect.gen(function* () {
+    let controller!: ReadableStreamDefaultController<Uint8Array>;
+    const body = new ReadableStream<Uint8Array>({
+      start(c) {
+        controller = c;
+        c.enqueue(new TextEncoder().encode('data: {"id":1}\r\r'));
+      },
+    });
+    const response = new Response(body, {
+      headers: { "content-type": "text/event-stream" },
+    });
+
+    const payloads = yield* responsePayloads(response, (cause) => ({
+      _tag: "ResponsePayloadError" as const,
+      cause,
+    })).pipe(
+      Stream.tap((payload) =>
+        Effect.sync(() => {
+          expect(payload).toEqual({ id: 1 });
+          controller.close();
+        }),
+      ),
+      Stream.runCollect,
+    );
+
+    expect(Array.from(payloads)).toEqual([{ id: 1 }]);
+  }),
+);

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Review comment at @packages/shared/src/mcpResponsePayloads.test.ts around lines
7 - 49:
Add a test alongside the existing `responsePayloads` tests that keeps the
response body open after enqueueing a CR-terminated event such as one ending in
`\r\r`. Assert the payload is emitted before closing the stream, then close it
and verify the collected result; the test must fail if delivery waits for EOF.

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19-21: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Cover lone-CR separators between multiline data: lines.

The test covers CR and mixed event separators, but not CR-only line endings within an event. Add a dataLineSeparator case so a regression to /\r?\n/ fails at JSON.parse.

Suggested fix

     ]) {
-      const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(
-        `: keep-alive${separator}data: {"id":1,\r\ndata: "result":{"text":"café😀"}}${separator}` +
-          'data: {"id":2,"result":{}}\n\ndata: {"id":3}',
-      );
+      for (const dataLineSeparator of ["\r\n", "\r"]) {
+        const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(
+          `: keep-alive${separator}data: {"id":1,${dataLineSeparator}data: "result":{"text":"café😀"}}${separator}` +
+            'data: {"id":2,"result":{}}\n\ndata: {"id":3}',
+        );
       for (let cut = 0; cut <= bytes.length; cut += 1) {
...
-            separator,
+            separator,
+            dataLineSeparator,
             cut,
...
-        expect(Array.from(payloads), JSON.stringify({ separator, cut })).toEqual([
+        expect(Array.from(payloads), JSON.stringify({ separator, dataLineSeparator, cut })).toEqual([
           { id: 1, result: { text: "café😀" } },
           { id: 2, result: {} },
         ]);
       }
+      }
     }

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Review comment at @packages/shared/src/mcpResponsePayloads.test.ts around lines
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Extend the separator coverage in this test to run the multiline `data:` payload
with both CRLF and lone-CR data-line endings, independently of the existing
event `separator`. Keep the existing byte-cut iteration and payload assertions
for each combination, and include `dataLineSeparator` in failure context so
lone-CR parsing regressions are caught.

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Review comments at @packages/shared/src/mcpResponsePayloads.test.ts:
- Around line 7-49: Add a test alongside the existing `responsePayloads` tests
that keeps the response body open after enqueueing a CR-terminated event such as
one ending in `\r\r`. Assert the payload is emitted before closing the stream,
then close it and verify the collected result; the test must fail if delivery
waits for EOF.
- Around line 19-21: Extend the separator coverage in this test to run the
multiline `data:` payload with both CRLF and lone-CR data-line endings,
independently of the existing event `separator`. Keep the existing byte-cut
iteration and payload assertions for each combination, and include
`dataLineSeparator` in failure context so lone-CR parsing regressions are
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Added both coverage points in 1daf15b. The existing regression now exercises CR, LF and CRLF between data lines and takes the first event while each response body stays open. Reverting just the CR-aware data-line splitter makes the extended test fail; the correct implementation is restored. check:changed passes formatting, lint, Knip, 34 affected typechecks and both selected tests.

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The previous CI run failed only in the unchanged PDF-preview browser case, “keeps workspace PDF scroll and zoom after reloads”, while waiting for the document to reload. That exact test passes locally with Node 26.12.1 and headless Chromium. I have synced current main in 99c9c5a and rerun check:changed successfully; the PR diff still contains only the MCP reader and its test. The push starts a fresh CI run. No PDF code, assertions or timeouts were changed.

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The second run passed the earlier PDF case but failed in a different unchanged browser test, fileEditorDismissal's editor-initialization wait. Both affected files pass together locally (134 tests). Since upstream has now merged the Effect 4.1.2 upgrade, ac7ffd4 syncs that update and passes check:changed against it, plus those 134 browser tests. The PR diff remains only the MCP reader and its regression test; no browser assertions or timeouts were changed.

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The latest web run includes the same fileSaveSessions StrictMode timeout that also fails on upstream main: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/actions/runs/41553432841/job/125646466076. I isolated the global-timer drain in that test and submitted the five-line repair separately as #29807, preserving this PR's MCP-only scope. The other web failure in this run is an unchanged MessagesTimeline click-interception timeout. The MCP regression, affected typechecks, build, lint, package tests and all eight server shards pass; the required overall Check is still red and is not being claimed as passed.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

merged current main without rebasing in 04d650f. the diff remains limited to the mcp stream reader and its regression coverage; no implementation changes were needed. both earlier coverage findings are already addressed by the open-stream assertion and the cr/lf/crlf data-line matrix.

blacksmith passed vp run check:changed (format, lint, knip, 34 affected typechecks and selected tests), plus all 14 tests across the parser and both mcp bridges. two independent scoped reviews found no issues at this head. live provider/client integration remains unverified.

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Verified in a real dev environment

verified as-is at 04d650f4d2256aaa5f393e4419b48f1cb76f52d2 on a linux boat vm with real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns in the dev web app. projects and threads were created through the app, with one background dev server at a time and isolated state.

• reproduced on github/main (61c3794c32): native mcp worked, but the real acp-mcp-call t3_project_list command failed with T3 Code MCP initialize failed for cr-only framing. the stdio bridge also produced no reply within the 4-second verification deadline. standard lf succeeded.
• the identical cr-only cli call succeeds on this head. the codex turn also exercised the real stdio bridge with cr, two mixed endings, lf, and crlf; each initialized, listed 68 tools, and returned the real project list before the tool response reached eof.
• a separate running-server pass covered all eight event-boundary combinations, including multiline cr data. all passed. notifications returned 202 and normal native codex mcp still worked.

to reach nonstandard framing without fake tools or results, a local gateway forwarded actual dev-server mcp requests and responses, serialized their actual json-rpc payloads as sse, and changed the line endings. it held tool-response bodies open for the delivery check. native codex mcp itself uses direct http and bypasses this reader; the terminal bridge calls exercised the changed production code.

blacksmith passed vp run check:changed ff73c4c2e6639c718d112ffa384ee5063f830d4e: format, lint, both knip passes, 34 affected typechecks, and the selected tests. the explicit pr base resolved the worker's initial shallow-history setup. all 28 reported ci checks were successful. no implementation changes or pushes were needed.

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Not verified

a real acp provider negotiating mcp-over-acp, native ios/android or electron shells, macos/windows, and an independent external mcp server naturally emitting cr-only sse were not exercised. this pass verified the real stdio bridge and cli against the running t3 server through the framing gateway.