fix(acp): keep one answer when a running tool reports progress

[juliusmarminge]

Fixes the confirmed half of #13133 (item a). Takes the segment change from #13137 by @adeebahmad01 (credited as co-author), without its telemetry filter, id rename, and prompt changes, and adds the regression test that PR did not have.

Problem

AcpSessionRuntime.handleSessionUpdate closed the active assistant segment on every parsed tool update, before deciding whether to emit it. When a background command reported progress or finished while the agent was still writing, the answer was split into two assistant bubbles. A markdown table or link cut at that point stops rendering. A coalesced progress tick (which is dropped and never shown) split the answer with nothing visible in between. Cursor, Grok and Antigravity all use this runtime.

Fix

Close the segment only when a new tool call is emitted. That is still where a tool card lands between two answers; updates to a tool that is already shown no longer cut the prose.

Evidence

A new mock-agent mode reproduces the Antigravity sequence through the real runtime over stdio: a backgrounded command, then a markdown table streaming while the command ticks and completes.

main (two assistant items, the table is cut after | 1 ):

ToolCallUpdated, AssistantItemStarted, ContentDelta, AssistantItemCompleted,
AssistantItemStarted, ContentDelta, ToolCallUpdated, ...

This PR (one assistant item; the completion sits between deltas of the same item):

ToolCallUpdated, AssistantItemStarted, ContentDelta, ContentDelta,
ToolCallUpdated, ContentDelta, AssistantItemCompleted

The existing "segments assistant text around ACP tool calls" test still passes unchanged: a new tool call still separates two answers.

Verification

• vp test run src/provider/acp/, plus Cursor, Grok and Antigravity adapter suites and ProviderRuntimeIngestion.test.ts: 419 passed. The one failure (AntigravityAdapter "serves client file reads...") also fails on main on macOS because of the /var → /private/var symlink; CI runs on Linux.
• Server typecheck and lint on changed files.

The <SYSTEM_MESSAGE> text in #13133(b) and #11432 is the model echoing a harness notice inside its own agent_message_chunk. The Antigravity bridge only sends model-to-user steps as chunks, so there is no structured signal to filter on. This PR leaves it alone.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Assistant responses now remain continuous when tool progress updates arrive during a streamed answer. Text updates and tool completion are presented as part of the same response, rather than interrupting it. Repeated updates for a completed tool call no longer interrupt the assistant response again. This keeps streamed answers together even when tool updates arrive between assistant text updates.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ The exact PR base did not have a successful artifact. Baseline uses the latest successful main measurement shown below.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	+10 B (+0.1%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	7.0 KiB	7.1 KiB	+4 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.5 KiB	+6 B (+0.1%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	56.3 KiB	56.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	10	10	0 (0.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	−4 B (−0.0%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	−7 B (−0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.5 KiB	+3 B (+0.0%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.0 KiB	57.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	9	9	0 (0.0%)	21	✅

Baseline: 408ff8a · PR result: d1d6265 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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Verdict: Approved at d1d6265

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped ACP bug fix that prevents late tool progress updates from splitting streamed assistant answers, with explicit regression coverage and bounded per-session tracking. The change does not alter schemas, product defaults, deployment behavior, or sensitive functionality.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The ACP mock agent adds a scenario that emits tool updates during a streamed answer. The runtime tracks recently shown tool-call IDs to determine whether an update closes the assistant segment. A regression test checks the event order.

Changes

ACP background tool updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve the assistant segment during tool updates apps/server/scripts/acp-mock-agent.ts, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpSessionRuntime.ts, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpJsonRpcConnection.test.ts	The mock agent emits progress and repeated completion updates while streaming an answer. The runtime records up to 256 recently shown tool-call IDs and closes the assistant segment only for an update to a new, inactive call. The test checks the repeated update and subsequent content delta before assistant completion.

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Change: Bug fix

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d1d62

In a long session, a late repeated tool update can split streamed assistant text after its ID falls out of the 256-entry window. This is a narrow edge case; the PR is otherwise mergeable, though preserving the behavior beyond that window is advisable.

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