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What Changed

Cursor ACP Task tool calls are classified and projected as task.started / task.progress / task.completed instead of parent item.* rows. turn.completed waits until those children finish (or the prompt is cancelled / the session stops).

Why

The Agents panel and sidebar backgroundLiveness only fold persisted task.* events. Cursor never emitted them, so native Task children were invisible and the parent turn looked idle until a manual nudge. Same adapter-parity gap as discussion #6998 (Claude/Codex already emit task.*; Antigravity already classifies subagent tools).

Proof: vp test run --maxWorkers=2 src/provider/acp/CursorAcpExtension.test.ts src/provider/Layers/CursorAdapter.test.ts — 29 passed, including a mock that returns end_turn while a Task tool is still in progress, then completes it; turn.completed follows task.completed, and no item.updated/item.completed is emitted for that call.

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  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes (no UI change; Agents panel already renders task.*)
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  • New Features

    • Added live progress tracking for Cursor subagent tasks.
    • Task launches now display started and completed states with titles and roles.
    • Turns wait for active subagent tasks to finish before completing.
    • Interrupted sessions now properly finalize active tasks.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved task detection to distinguish subagent work from questions, planning, and file operations.
    • Failed prompts now finalize remaining active tasks with a failed status.
    • Prevented duplicate or stale completion events and ensured concurrent turns are notified when tasks finish.
    • Ensured cancelled task prompts are finalized consistently.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This adds production Cursor ACP classification and lifecycle synchronization so native Task calls become persisted task events and appear in the Agents panel, changing existing tool and turn behavior rather than only adjusting tests. Unresolved concurrency risks around superseded prompts and task-drain waiters make the runtime behavior require human review.

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Walkthrough

Cursor ACP Task tool calls are classified and projected as runtime task events. CursorAdapter stores task metadata, preserves tracking across superseded prompts, and handles native or synthetic completion. Mock-agent and integration tests cover lifecycle ordering, concurrent waiters, failures, and interruption cleanup.

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Cursor ACP task support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Task tool-call classification
apps/server/src/provider/acp/CursorAcpExtension.ts, apps/server/src/provider/acp/CursorAcpExtension.test.ts
Adds Task-call detection, exclusion rules for non-task calls, title and role extraction, and unit coverage.
Task lifecycle tracking
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CursorAdapter.ts
Stores task metadata, tracks live and completed task IDs, suppresses duplicate completions, waits for live tasks, and handles cancellation, interruption, errors, and teardown.
Mock-agent and integration validation
apps/server/scripts/acp-mock-agent.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CursorAdapter.test.ts
Adds controlled subagent task updates and verifies lifecycle ordering, metadata, concurrent waiters, failure handling, and interruption cleanup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MockACPAgent
  participant CursorAdapter
  participant CursorAcpExtension
  participant RuntimeEvents
  MockACPAgent->>CursorAdapter: Emit Task tool-call updates
  CursorAdapter->>CursorAcpExtension: Classify Task and extract metadata
  CursorAcpExtension-->>CursorAdapter: Return task title and role
  CursorAdapter->>RuntimeEvents: Emit task.started and task.progress
  MockACPAgent->>CursorAdapter: Emit terminal or cancellation update
  CursorAdapter->>RuntimeEvents: Emit task.completed
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The delayed mock completion does not emit an ordinary item event after cancellation, so no actionable merge risk remains.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: displaying native Cursor Task children in the Agents panel.
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CursorAdapter.ts`:
- Line 163: Update the liveTasks map and its related task lifecycle handling to
retain each task’s title, role, and turnId rather than only turnId. Use these
stored title and role values when emitting progress, completion, and synthetic
teardown events, including completion updates that provide only toolCallId and
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- Around line 1221-1222: Update the cancellation branch around result.stopReason
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939-1006: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Retain the tombstone after synthetic task completion.

finishLiveTasks emits task.completed, adds the ID to completedTaskIds, and clears liveTasks. The first terminal ToolCallUpdated then deletes the tombstone and returns. A later update for the same ID can pass isNew and emit a second task.completed. AcpSessionRuntime merges later updates with prior tool-call state, so task fields remain available. Do not delete the tombstone until task-ID reuse is established.

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bompus and others added 3 commits September 16, 2026 00:08
Map Cursor ACP Task tool calls onto task.* so the Agents roster and background liveness work, and hold turn.completed until those children finish.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Keep title/role for ID-only updates, tombstone interrupted tasks so
native completion cannot emit item.*, reuse the drain deferred, and
do not stop live tasks when a superseded prompt is cancelled.
A transport or session/prompt failure after task.started left
background Tasks running. Drain events and finish those Tasks as
failed when this is the last in-flight prompt.
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- finishLiveTasks now declares the ProviderAdapterRequestError channel
  carried by makeEventStamp instead of claiming Effect<void>.
- acp-mock-agent delayed completion uses Effect.forkDetach + Effect.sleep
  instead of setTimeout inside Effect.sync (effect/globalTimersInEffect).
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Thanks for the PR. We're not taking changes to the orchestration and provider layers right now: that part of the server is being rewritten for V2, and merging into the current code would either conflict with or be thrown away by that work.

Closing for now. If this is still an issue once V2 lands, please reopen (or open a fresh PR against the new code) and we'll take a proper look.

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