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fix(server): Claude steers wait for the tool boundary instead of cancelling tools - #36945
A steer on a running Claude thread, from a person or from another agent through t3_thread_send, cancels the MCP tool calls Claude is running, including T3's own delegation and task tools. The adapter writes steers with priority: "now", which makes Claude Code abort in-flight MCP calls. They come back as "The user doesn't want to take this action right now. STOP what you are doing…", so Claude treats an ordinary update as a refusal. #21895 has a log where one agent update cancelled five of seven parallel delegation calls.
Fixes#21895. This replaces #35462, which the open-PR limit bot closed and GitHub would not reopen. #35462 itself replaced #21158. The change is the same, ported onto current main, plus a fix for the review finding on #35462.
Change
All of it is in ClaudeAdapterV2:
Steers wait for a tool boundary.steerTurn holds the steer, with its attachments and PDF budget reservation, instead of writing it. It still reports "pending" and still moves foreground subagents to the background.
Delivery uses Claude's own next input. A root PostToolBatch hook writes the held steers with priority: "next" and answers only after the SDK has written them, so Claude adds them to its next request. A subagent's batch (agent_id set) is not a boundary of the root turn.
A turn that ends first still gets the steer. If Claude finishes before another boundary, the held steers are written after the result. Claude runs them as its next native turn, which stays part of the same T3 turn, using the steer segment accounting main already has.
Stop and restart are unchanged. Stop drops held steers unwritten, shows the existing unconfirmed-steer notice and releases their PDF budget.
Removed: the abort-result handling (aborted_tools / aborted_streaming) and reply cut-off state that only "now" steers reached, and the Claude message_steering replay fixture, which recorded the old interrupting protocol.
Docs: one sentence in docs/user/composer.md on when Claude reads a steer.
activeSteeringInterruptsTools stays true for Claude, so notices are still queued rather than steered (#36454 tracks that separately).
Verification
New tests fail on main (e68d4f0) and pass with the fix. With the adapter reset to main:
× holds a steer for Claude's next root tool boundary
AssertionError: expected [ { type: 'user', …(3) }, …(1) ] to have a length of 1 but got 2
× runs a held steer within the turn when Claude ends it without a tool boundary
AssertionError: expected 'now' to equal 'next'
× delivers user steering after Claude's running tools finish instead of cancelling them
× delivers promoted queued message after Claude's running tools finish instead of cancelling them
AssertionError: expected 2 to equal 1
The result-only assertion fails without its fix: expected [ 'Long.' ] to deeply equal [ 'Long.', 'Short.' ].
End-to-end through the orchestrator.ClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration.test.ts now asserts that an explicit or promoted steer leaves all four running task_status calls to complete, with nothing aborted, and that the steer is written once with "next" at the boundary.
Existing steer tests for attachments, PDF budgets, compaction, the Stop notice, acceptance status, live model changes and segment usage now drive a tool boundary first.
vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 3 packages, 452 tests in 3 files). ClaudeReplayFixtures.integration.test.ts passes (37 tests).
Steer while Claude writes its final answer, without tools:
Not checked: a live run of this port on current main (the captures are from #35462's branch), older Claude Code versions without PostToolBatch, which fall back to taking a steer after the reply ends, and agent steers through t3_thread_send, which use the same adapter path.
Ported by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code/Claude Code. The original change had an independent Claude Opus 5.5 review.
…elling tools
A steer on a Claude thread was written with priority "now", which makes
Claude Code abort the tool calls in flight. They came back as "The user
doesn't want to take this action right now", although nobody refused
anything.
The adapter now holds each human or agent steer and writes it with
priority "next" from the root PostToolBatch hook, so Claude adds it to the
request after the batch finishes. If the turn ends before another
boundary, the held steers are written after the result and Claude's native
continuation stays part of the same turn. Stop drops held steers unwritten
and releases their PDF budget. Delivery status still comes from Claude's
command_lifecycle reports. The abort-result handling for "now" steers is
gone, and the Claude message_steering replay fixture, which recorded the
old interruption, is removed.
A reply that only the first part's result carried is published before the
held steers are written, so it no longer stands in for the steer's reply.
Refs: pingdotgg#21895
Refs: pingdotgg#21158
Refs: pingdotgg#35462
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 at high effort, implementation <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5, independent review <noreply@anthropic.com>
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pingdotgg#35462 was closed by upstream's open-PR limit and GitHub would not reopen
it, so the port was reopened as pingdotgg#36945. The final-answer entry no longer
cites pingdotgg#36026, which upstream's pingdotgg#36116 made obsolete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 at high effort, implementation <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 HighAdapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:11646
When the first segment emits assistant text, a later held steer whose answer appears only in its result is silently dropped, so the completed turn shows only the original answer. sendHeldSteers leaves assistant.emittedNativeItemIds populated, causing both the result-text fallback guard and finalization to treat the steer’s reply as already emitted; track segment-local text emission separately from turn-wide deduplication.
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In file @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts around line 11646:
When the first segment emits assistant text, a later held steer whose answer appears only in its result is silently dropped, so the completed turn shows only the original answer. `sendHeldSteers` leaves `assistant.emittedNativeItemIds` populated, causing both the result-text fallback guard and finalization to treat the steer’s reply as already emitted; track segment-local text emission separately from turn-wide deduplication.
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Claude steers are queued until a root tool batch finishes or a successful turn result arrives. The adapter offers them with next priority, tracks when the SDK reads them, and releases reservations for undelivered steers. Tests, replay fixtures, and documentation reflect this delivery behavior.
Changes: Claude steer delivery
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Summary
Queue steers and track writes apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts
The adapter holds steers with their attachment reservations and offers them with next priority. The query session tracks when the SDK requests its next input. Tests cover dropped steers, attachments, reservation handling, and offer retries.
Deliver at root boundaries or turn completion apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts
The adapter sends held steers at a root PostToolBatch hook or after a successful result. Tests cover subagent boundaries, completion without a tool boundary, Stop, and reply handling.
Update delivery coverage and documentation apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration.test.ts, apps/server/scripts/record-claude-agent-sdk-replay-fixture.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/fixtures/*, docs/user/composer.md
The integration test checks that tool results complete without cancellation. The Claude message-steering replay fixture and recorder configuration were removed. The documentation describes when Claude reads a steer and how Stop interrupts it.
In a narrow case, a steer delivered as a native continuation may lose its reply when the first reply arrived as a snapshot and the continuation returns only a result. Track fallback eligibility per native segment before merging.
Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1
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Direct issue #21895 requires safe steer delivery during the active turn without delaying updates until the whole turn ends. The issue also describes holding input for a root PostToolBatch or Stop hook…
Add a bounded fallback for held root steers. If no root PostToolBatch boundary occurs within five seconds, move the steer to the durable next-turn queue, with ownership rechecked at handoff. Keep Stop revoking pending delivery. Add a test t…
Passed checks: 3 passed
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Title check
The title names the main change: Claude steers now wait for the tool boundary instead of cancelling running tools. It follows the conventional commit format and matches the changeset, which holds stee…
Description check
The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the cancelled MCP tool calls and cites issue #21895. The Change …
Out of Scope Changes check
The changed areas connect to the steer-delivery objective of #21895. ClaudeAdapterV2.ts changes hold steers, use priority next, and handle result-only replies and aborted-result cancellation. ClaudeAd…
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The title names the main change: Claude steers now wait for the tool boundary instead of cancelling running tools. It follows the conventional commit format and matches the changeset, which holds steers until a PostToolBatch boundary and delivers them with priority "next".
Full details: Description check
Explanation
The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the cancelled MCP tool calls and cites issue #21895. The Change section lists the adapter changes and the removed handling. The Scope section links #21895 and explains the replacement of #35462. Verification lists new failing-then-passing tests, the check run, live captures, and items not checked. It also notes that the agent steer path through t3_thread_send was not checked live. The Scope section does not state the maintainer request or the reason for the bug-fix scope. The author also says the work is a port of an earlier change, which the template does not require.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
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The changed areas connect to the steer-delivery objective of #21895. ClaudeAdapterV2.ts changes hold steers, use priority next, and handle result-only replies and aborted-result cancellation. ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts and ClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration.test.ts verify this behavior. Removal of the Claude message_steering replay fixture and its assertion covers the old priority now protocol, so it is in scope. The composer.md sentence documents when Claude reads a steer. The recorder change removes the matching scenario import. No unrelated functional change appears in the summary.
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Explanation
Direct issue #21895 requires safe steer delivery during the active turn without delaying updates until the whole turn ends. The issue also describes holding input for a root PostToolBatch or Stop hook for up to five seconds, then using the durable next-turn queue if no boundary arrives. The PR implements the PostToolBatch boundary and a Stop-time discard. It does not implement the five-second fallback to a durable next-turn queue. When Claude writes a text-only reply with no tool boundary, the held steer waits until the turn result, which is the delay the issue asks to avoid. The PR summary and description state this behavior and do not describe the five-second fallback. The previous PASS relied on the PR description and was not re-verified against the current head 3367c1f.
Resolution
Add a bounded fallback for held root steers. If no root PostToolBatch boundary occurs within five seconds, move the steer to the durable next-turn queue, with ownership rechecked at handoff. Keep Stop revoking pending delivery. Add a test that a steer held during a text-only reply is delivered or queued within five seconds, not at turn end. Alternatively, record in the issue that the five-second fallback is replaced by a different approved requirement.
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- Line 11646: Track fallback eligibility separately for each native segment
around sendHeldSteers, while preserving emittedNativeItemIds for deduplication;
do not let assistant snapshot IDs from the initial reply suppress result-only
continuation output. Extend the existing no-boundary regression case to cover a
snapshot-first initial reply followed by a continuation whose assistant reply
appears only in result.
- Around line 11626-11627: Update the continuation-delivery guard around
message.subtype and message.is_error to require a completed terminal status,
using terminalStatusFromResult so aborted_tools and aborted_streaming results
are excluded. Preserve the existing success and non-error checks, and ensure
interrupted results settle the turn instead of entering continuation delivery.
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Track fallback eligibility per native segment.
If the initial reply arrives as an assistant snapshot, emittedNativeItemIds is already nonempty when this call starts the continuation. If the continuation returns its reply only in result, Line 11602 rejects that reply, and finalization never publishes it.
Track whether the current native segment emitted assistant text. Preserve the existing IDs for deduplication. Extend the no-boundary regression case with a snapshot-first, result-only-continuation case.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts at line 11646:
Track fallback eligibility separately for each native segment around sendHeldSteers, while preserving emittedNativeItemIds for deduplication; do not let assistant snapshot IDs from the initial reply suppress result-only continuation output. Extend the existing no-boundary regression case to cover a snapshot-first initial reply followed by a continuation whose assistant reply appears only in result.
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The record of shown replies spanned the whole turn, so after the first
reply streamed, a held steer's reply that came only in its result counted
as already shown and was dropped. Clear it when the held steers start
their segment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (high, implementation) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ning held steers
A success envelope can still end with terminal_reason aborted_tools or
aborted_streaming, as when an approval is cancelled. The continuation guard
now requires a completed terminal status, so such a turn settles as
interrupted and its held steers are cancelled unwritten.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Add a bounded fallback for held root steers. If no root PostToolBatch boundary
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ownership rechecked at handoff. Keep Stop revoking pending delivery. Add a test
that a steer held during a text-only reply is delivered or queued within five
seconds, not at turn end. Alternatively, record in the issue that the
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Problem
A steer on a running Claude thread, from a person or from another agent through
t3_thread_send, cancels the MCP tool calls Claude is running, including T3's own delegation and task tools. The adapter writes steers withpriority: "now", which makes Claude Code abort in-flight MCP calls. They come back as "The user doesn't want to take this action right now. STOP what you are doing…", so Claude treats an ordinary update as a refusal. #21895 has a log where one agent update cancelled five of seven parallel delegation calls.Fixes #21895. This replaces #35462, which the open-PR limit bot closed and GitHub would not reopen. #35462 itself replaced #21158. The change is the same, ported onto current
main, plus a fix for the review finding on #35462.Change
All of it is in
ClaudeAdapterV2:steerTurnholds the steer, with its attachments and PDF budget reservation, instead of writing it. It still reports "pending" and still moves foreground subagents to the background.nextinput. A rootPostToolBatchhook writes the held steers withpriority: "next"and answers only after the SDK has written them, so Claude adds them to its next request. A subagent's batch (agent_idset) is not a boundary of the root turn.mainalready has.aborted_tools/aborted_streaming) and reply cut-off state that only"now"steers reached, and the Claudemessage_steeringreplay fixture, which recorded the old interrupting protocol.docs/user/composer.mdon when Claude reads a steer.activeSteeringInterruptsToolsstaystruefor Claude, so notices are still queued rather than steered (#36454 tracks that separately).Verification
main(e68d4f0) and pass with the fix. With the adapter reset tomain:expected [ 'Long.' ] to deeply equal [ 'Long.', 'Short.' ].ClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration.test.tsnow asserts that an explicit or promoted steer leaves all four runningtask_statuscalls to complete, with nothing aborted, and that the steer is written once with"next"at the boundary.vp run check:changedpasses (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 3 packages, 452 tests in 3 files).ClaudeReplayFixtures.integration.test.tspasses (37 tests).mainand the branch, steering from the web composer:main)More captures
Steer during a 20-second Bash command:
Steer while Claude writes its final answer, without tools:
Not checked: a live run of this port on current
main(the captures are from #35462's branch), older Claude Code versions withoutPostToolBatch, which fall back to taking a steer after the reply ends, and agent steers throught3_thread_send, which use the same adapter path.Ported by Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code/Claude Code. The original change had an independent Claude Opus 5.5 review.
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