[trevoedwards]

Problem

When Cursor emits a standalone transport diagnostic as assistant text, T3 recognizes it and fails the turn, but records only Provider turn failed. The adapter passes the recognized string as cause; makeProviderFailure intentionally does not display arbitrary cause text.

For example, after earlier commentary and a completed step:

Before: transport_error / Provider turn failed.
After:  transport_error / Error: RetriableError: WritableIterable is closed

Change

Pass the already-recognized diagnostic as the explicit failure message, through the existing bounded failure formatter and redactor. The transport detector, terminal status, and retry policy keep their existing behavior. Extend the existing adapter case to assert the terminal message.

Scope and approval

This qualifies for the small, focused obvious-bug exception: one incorrect argument hides a diagnostic the adapter has already classified. No new setting, contract, retry policy, or raw-cause fallback is introduced. The existing behavior reaches web, desktop, mobile, remote clients and delegated runs through the same terminal event.

Related: merged #23273 fixes detection after earlier commentary, but its regression expected the generic message. Merged #16146 preserves SDK result-error messages, while this separate path handles errors emitted as assistant text. Open #27185 addresses a hanging SDK wait and retains the generic text; this PR fixes neither its timing nor completion policy.

Verification

The strengthened existing adapter case fails on upstream main with Provider turn failed. instead of the recognized diagnostic, then passes with the one-line production correction. The fixture drives the real adapter's terminal event using a synthetic SDK runner; no model request is made.

• Docker, Node 26.12.1, pinned Cursor SDK 1.2.0, upstream base 567a105705bc.
• vp run check:changed upstream/main --concurrency 2: passed format, lint, both knip passes, all 10 affected/dependent package typechecks, and 22 tests across the Cursor adapter and the required agent-context check.

No interactive client or real provider was used. This is a server diagnostic correction; the before/after terminal transcript above is its runtime evidence.

Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 98d521d

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Recognized Cursor transport failures now retain their diagnostic message instead of falling back to generic failure text. Existing redaction and length limits remain in place, and turn status and failure classification are unchanged.

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Walkthrough

When a Cursor turn fails after it ends, the provider failure uses the transport diagnostic as its message without passing the transport failure as its cause. The failure remains classified as transport_error, and the test expects the specific diagnostic.

Changes: Cursor transport diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve transport failure message packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.test.ts	The transport-failure branch passes the diagnostic as the provider failure message without passing the failure as its cause. The test expects Error: RetriableError: WritableIterable is closed. The transport_error classification remains unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: only21mil, yash-singh1

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to db56b

Cursor transport failures now show the specific diagnostic instead of a generic message. The text goes through the existing redaction and length limit, and no remaining merge risk was found.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the change accurately: the Cursor adapter now keeps the recognized transport failure diagnostic in the failure message instead of the generic text. It follows conventional commit form …
Description check		The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each section gives specific content. The Problem section states the expected and actual behavior and…
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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Explanation

The title names the change accurately: the Cursor adapter now keeps the recognized transport failure diagnostic in the failure message instead of the generic text. It follows conventional commit form and fits the changeset, which updates adapter.ts and its test to expect the SDK's specific error message.

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Explanation

The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each section gives specific content. The Problem section states the expected and actual behavior and gives a before/after transcript. The Change section explains the one-line fix. The Scope section explains why the change is an obvious-bug fix and links related PRs. The Verification section lists the commands run, the observed results, and the limits of testing (no interactive client or real provider). It also ends with the model and harness, as the template asks. The template's conventional-commit title guidance is met by the title.

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Review comments at @packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Line 2552: Redact recovery codes from transportFailure before assigning it to
the failure item’s message, using the existing redaction mechanism. Keep this
change scoped to stored failure details so assistant text already emitted
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Evidence

Start fresh isolated dev servers with seeding disabled, enable Cursor, and add the same one-file git project. Ask Cursor composer-2.5 to send 'Checking the workspace.', run ls, then send exactly 'Error: RetriableError: WritableIterable is closed' as a separate final message. Both turns fail with transport_error. Base loses the diagnostic from the terminal failure; head preserves it in the Provider error row and banner.

Environment for both: real web client in Chromium, 1280×800 viewport, light theme. Captures crop out the unrelated environment details panel.

Before	After
5c85e93f0f	db56b2ef94
Before recording	After recording

Reproduction driver · Persisted terminal failures

Caveat: as in triage, the diagnostic was model-generated on instruction, not caused by a genuine SDK transport fault; it exercises the same assistant-text classification and terminal failure path.

Not shown:

• A genuine Cursor SDK transport fault was not induced; the supplied reproduction uses an instructed standalone assistant diagnostic, which exercises the adapter path changed by this fix.