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Summary

  • Cursor transport truncation only pinned exec_command / shell_command. Codex Desktop advertises unified exec plus wait (bare or opencodex-responses).
  • A crowded catalog therefore dropped exec and left wait, so cursor/grok-4.6-fast and Cursor-first combo turns loop on exec cell not found / exec cell new not found.
  • Treat exec, exec_command, and shell_command (bare or opencodex-responses) as the execution path, force-admit one of them, and omit wait when no cell creator remains.

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  • New Features
    • Improved tool selection to prioritize execution and wait actions when tool limits are reached.
    • Added support for recognizing unified and namespaced execution tools.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented non-execution tools from displacing essential execution tools.
    • Automatically removes wait actions when no executable action can fit within limits.
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    • Added coverage for tool-count and size limits, execution tool retention, and oversized tool handling.

Codex Desktop advertises exec/wait, not only exec_command/shell_command.
Cursor transport truncation dropped exec and left wait, so Grok turns loop
on exec cell not found. Treat exec (bare and opencodex-responses) as the
execution path, force-admit it, and omit wait when no cell creator remains.
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Cursor tool budgeting now recognizes unified and Responses-provider execution tools. It prioritizes execution tools and wait, recovers budget by evicting lower-priority tools, and removes wait when execution cannot fit. Tests cover count and byte limits.

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Cursor execution-tool budgeting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Execution-path tool classification
src/adapters/cursor/tool-definitions.ts
Adds exec and wait constants. Adds helpers for unnamespaced and opencodex-responses execution and wait tools at lines 10–12 and 173–193.
Execution-tool admission and validation
src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts, tests/cursor-request-builder.test.ts
Prioritizes execution tools and wait, force-admits eligible execution tools after normal budgeting, and removes wait when execution cannot fit. Tests cover count truncation and byte-budget cases at lines 443–531.

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The change can still advertise wait when no execution tool is retained, causing affected Cursor turns to loop or fail with missing exec-cell errors. The PR is not merge-ready until this filtering also covers the fast path and has a regression test.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CursorRequestBuilder
  participant ExecutionToolClassifier
  participant ToolBudget
  CursorRequestBuilder->>ExecutionToolClassifier: classify execution and wait tools
  CursorRequestBuilder->>ToolBudget: prioritize and admit tools
  ToolBudget-->>CursorRequestBuilder: evict lower-priority tools when execution fits
  ToolBudget-->>CursorRequestBuilder: remove wait when execution cannot fit
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In `@src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts`:
- Around line 142-152: Update the request-building logic around the kept-tool
selection and fitting-catalog fast return so wait tools are removed whenever the
final admitted catalog contains no isCursorExecutionPathTool result, including
catalogs containing only wait and cases where selection drops all execution
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Comment on lines +142 to +152
const eligibleHasExecutionPath = eligible.some(isCursorExecutionPathTool);
const keptHasExecutionPath = eligible.some(tool => keptSet.has(tool) && isCursorExecutionPathTool(tool));
// Never advertise `wait` after dropping the tool that creates the exec cell.
if (eligibleHasExecutionPath && !keptHasExecutionPath) {
for (const tool of eligible) {
if (!isCursorWaitTool(tool) || !keptSet.has(tool)) continue;
keptSet.delete(tool);
const index = kept.indexOf(tool);
if (index >= 0) kept.splice(index, 1);
keptBytes -= cursorMcpToolEncodedSize(tool, toolChoice);
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove wait when no execution-path tool is admitted.

Line 145 removes wait only when an execution-path tool was eligible. A catalog that contains only wait, or where tool selection removes every execution tool, bypasses this condition. It also returns unchanged through the fitting-catalog fast path at Lines 80-83.

The result can advertise wait without a tool that creates an exec cell. This violates the execution-path contract and can restore the missing-exec loop.

Filter wait whenever the final admitted catalog has no isCursorExecutionPathTool() result. Apply the same rule before the fast return. Add a regression test for a fitting [wait] catalog.

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In `@src/adapters/cursor/request-builder.ts` around lines 142 - 152, Update the
request-building logic around the kept-tool selection and fitting-catalog fast
return so wait tools are removed whenever the final admitted catalog contains no
isCursorExecutionPathTool result, including catalogs containing only wait and
cases where selection drops all execution tools. Preserve kept ordering and byte
accounting when removing wait, and add a regression test covering a fitting
[wait] catalog.

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Two correctness issues remain before this is merge-ready.

  1. wait can still be advertised without any execution-path tool. applyCursorToolBudget() has a fitting-catalog fast return before the cleanup logic, so a catalog such as [wait] returns unchanged. The later cleanup is also gated on eligibleHasExecutionPath, so tool-choice filtering can leave wait behind after all exec tools become ineligible. The final invariant should be simple: if the admitted catalog has no isCursorExecutionPathTool() result, remove wait on every return path. Please add a fitting [wait] regression test as well.

  2. The force-admission loop can unnecessarily try to admit a second execution alias even when one execution-path tool is already retained. In a constrained catalog that can evict useful tools (wait, apply_patch, selected tools, etc.) just to make room for another exec alias. The stated requirement is to retain at least one execution path, so only run force-admission when the kept set currently has zero execution-path tools.

Please cover the final behavior with tests for [wait], [wait, oversized exec], a fitting [wait, exec], and a constrained catalog containing multiple exec aliases where retaining one does not evict useful tools for a second.

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lidge-jun merged commit c523c57 into lidge-jun:dev Aug 13, 2026
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