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Problem

V2 writes every streamed ACP tool_call_update to the event log as a full turn_item.updated plus a node.updated. Agents that stream tool arguments resend the whole call so far each time, so log growth is quadratic. A Devin file write of 4.5 KB is 1,156 updates. On my server, turn-item.updated and node.updated were 95% of the 3.68M rows in a 17.8 GB statev2.sqlite. Details and the raw capture are in #16428.

V1 bounded this in #7279 (decideToolCallUpdateEmission), but that gate only filters AcpSessionRuntime's event queue. AcpAdapterV2 registers its own handleSessionUpdate handler, so neither its root path (emitTool) nor its child-session path goes through any gate.

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shouldPersistToolUpdate in AcpAdapterV2.ts writes a streamed tool update when any of these hold:

  • the status or title changed;
  • the visible output changed. toolCallVisibleOutputChanged in AcpRuntimeModel.ts compares the detail, the text content blocks, and the whole rawOutput, so every output shape counts (a string, stdout fields, Grok's { type: "Text", text });
  • the agent reported completed or failed;
  • 9 updates in a row were skipped.

So streamed arguments (a diff, rawInput) persist every 10th update, while command and monitor output still persists on every change, as on main. V2 shows that output live, and the Grok replay fixtures assert that every tick persists while running. I started by reusing #7279's decideToolCallUpdateEmission. Its 256-char growth threshold hid those ticks, and its "nothing changed" check skipped rawInput-only updates without counting them, so this is a smaller V2 rule.

Both write paths use it:

  • Root (emitTool). The adapter still merges every update into context.tools and runs the background, hydration and subagent bookkeeping. Only the node.updated / turn_item.updated offers are skipped, and a skip still calls rearmDeferredFinalize.
  • Child sessions. This is the branch Devin routes subagent tools through via parentAgentId. It gets the same gate, keyed by its nativeTaskId:tool:id key.
  • Bypasses. Updates with a projectedStatus skip the gate, so turn-end terminalization still writes the latest merged state, including interrupted. An agent-reported completed or failed always writes, even when a flavor normalizes it to a non-terminal status (Grok's mid-turn Bash completed becomes running).
  • State. context.toolUpdatesSkipped counts skips per tool next to the merged tools.

Not changed:

Each kept snapshot of a file write still holds the whole file, so very large writes still grow the log, by about a tenth of what they did before. Storing diffs instead of snapshots would be a bigger change, so I left it out.

Scope and approval

Fixes #16428. The triage comment there confirms the bug on main and lists the details this PR follows: skip only the offers, rearm finalize, bypass projectedStatus, keep emission state beside the tool, and gate the child-session branch.

Verification

New test in AcpAdapterV2.test.ts: "persists a bounded subset of streamed root and child tool updates". It uses the Devin flavor (normalizeDevinSessionUpdate / normalizeDevinToolCall / extractDevinSubagentUpdate). In one turn it streams a 4.8 KB file write as 1 tool_call + 200 growing tool_call_updates + completed, once from the root agent and once from a subagent via cognition.ai/subagent_context.

root writes child writes
main (bfec2387b8) 202 updates, 849 KB 202 updates, 1.33 MB
this PR 22 updates, 89.5 KB 22 updates, 140 KB
  • On main the test fails: root-write: expected 202 to be at most 40.
  • With only the child gate removed, it fails: child-write: expected 202 to be at most 40.
  • With the fix it passes. Each write persists at least 20 updates (the every-10th writes), and its last persisted item is completed and contains the end of the file.
  • The same test streams two running commands whose output is replaced tick 1 → tick 5 (a string rawOutput) and tock 1 → tock 5 ({ type: "Text", text }), all the same length. Every tick must persist. Earlier versions of this PR failed with tick 2 must persist (length check) and tock 2 must persist (field list).
  • vp test run src/orchestration-v2/ src/provider/acp/ in apps/server: 124 files, 2,224 passed, 18 skipped. Before the live-output change in this PR, three Grok replay fixtures (grok_monitor, grok_background_bash, grok_background_bash_fast_wake) failed with "completed before tick 2"; they pass now.
  • vp exec tsc --noEmit -p . in apps/server: exit 0
  • vp lint on both files: no new warnings. vp run knip:check: exit 0

I also captured raw ACP traffic from Devin CLI 3000.11.3 with T3's initialize capabilities. The same prompt sends 1,156 tool_call_updates with cognition.ai/messageGrouping and 3 without it.

Not checked: a live Devin session through a full T3 server build with this patch. The test feeds Devin-shaped updates through the real adapter, but not a live CLI.

Model/harness: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code.

darjss added 4 commits October 7, 2026 09:46
…med chunk

AcpAdapterV2 handles session/update itself, so pingdotgg#7279's
decideToolCallUpdateEmission gate in AcpSessionRuntime never ran for V2.
Gate unprojected emitTool writes through it; context.tools still merges
every update so terminalization writes the latest state.

Refs pingdotgg#16428
Normalizers can project a mid-turn completed as running; the gate must
still write it, as V1 did, instead of treating it as a duplicate.
…ize on skips

Devin routes subagent tool calls through the child-session branch, which
wrote turn_item.updated directly. Share the gate with emitTool, and keep
rearming deferred finalize when emitTool skips a write.
…rguments

V2 shows command and monitor output as it arrives (the Grok replay
fixtures assert every tick), so only argument-only updates such as a
streamed diff or rawInput go through the pingdotgg#7279 rule.
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reportedStatus === "completed" ||
reportedStatus === "failed" ||
emission === undefined ||
progressLength !== emission.lastEmittedDetailLength

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🟡 Medium Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.ts:1489

Running command stdout and monitor output changes are not persisted immediately when their visible text changes without increasing toolCallProgressLength—for example, replacing tick 1 with tick 2—so the UI misses live updates until decideToolCallUpdateEmission reaches its threshold. This comparison uses only the maximum of the detail, content, and raw-output lengths; compare the visible output itself (or its components) so these updates are emitted promptly.

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Running command stdout and monitor output changes are not persisted immediately when their visible text changes without increasing `toolCallProgressLength`—for example, replacing `tick 1` with `tick 2`—so the UI misses live updates until `decideToolCallUpdateEmission` reaches its threshold. This comparison uses only the maximum of the detail, content, and raw-output lengths; compare the visible output itself (or its components) so these updates are emitted promptly.

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Fixed in dbec3e2. The gate now compares the visible text itself (toolCallVisibleOutputChanged: detail, text content, rawOutput text), not its length. The test streams a running command whose output is replaced tick 1 → tick 5, all the same length. With the previous length check it failed with tick 2 must persist; it passes now.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This production change throttles persisted ACP tool updates across both root and child sessions, altering existing event-log and live-update behavior based on heuristic length and status checks. An unresolved finding also identifies delayed persistence for same-length visible-output replacements, so the emission semantics need human validation.

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The ACP adapter now filters persisted tool updates for root and subagent turns. It persists terminal updates, first updates, changes to status, title, or visible output, and periodic updates. Tests cover streamed root and child file writes and same-length output replacements.

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ACP tool update persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track tool update persistence state
apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpRuntimeModel.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.ts
The runtime model compares tool details, ordered text content, and serialized raw output. The adapter tracks skipped updates per tool and persists terminal updates, first updates, status or title changes, visible-output changes, and every tenth otherwise-skipped update.
Filter root and subagent updates
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.test.ts
Root and subagent updates pass through the persistence decision before projection. Skipped root updates rearm deferred finalization. The test checks bounded persisted updates for root and child file writes, completed final states, final file content, and all five text and string ticker outputs.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 14b37

The change bounds repeated ACP snapshots while retaining meaningful and terminal updates; the supplied integration coverage checks root and child streams. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 14b37

The change reduces redundant saved tool snapshots without changing execution permissions. Terminal tool reports still save immediately. No introduced security issue was established, but intermediate-state recovery and downstream display behavior are not fully verified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure change is limited to saved projections of existing ACP-controlled tool notifications in root and child sessions. The reviewed changes do not grant additional tool execution authority or introduce another service or data-store boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Existing runtime callbacks remain serialized through a permit and reject stale generations or non-idle teardown state. Session-update projection uses this admission wrapper before normalization and dispatch; the new persistence gate is downstream of it.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The gate reduces redundant argument-stream projections, but is not an abuse-prevention quota: an agent changing title or visible output can still trigger a projection on every notification. That continuous-projection exposure existed before this PR.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning #16428 requires every agent-reported completed or failed update to persist. Both the root path and child path call shouldPersistToolUpdate with merged.status (AcpAdapterV2.ts), while the gat… Preserve the agent-reported status before flavor normalization and pass it to shouldPersistToolUpdate in both paths. Add a regression test that verifies an agent-reported completed or failed update persists when normalization changes …
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The root and child persistence gates, visible-output comparison helper, and regression test all support #16428 by limiting repeated tool snapshots while retaining updates that must remain visible. The…
Approvability ✅ Passed PASS. The diff changes only the ACP adapter, its runtime model, and the adapter test. It adds bounded persistence for streamed tool updates as a focused bug fix. The emitted event types and payload sh…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reducing persistence of streamed ACP tool updates.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the problem, change, scope and approval, and verification. It includes focused test results and states what was not checked.
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#16428 requires every agent-reported completed or failed update to persist. Both the root path and child path call shouldPersistToolUpdate with merged.status (AcpAdapterV2.ts), while the gate checks that value as reportedStatus. If flavor normalization changes a reported terminal status to running, the gate can skip it. The new test checks ordinary completed file writes, but it does not cover a terminal status normalized to a non-terminal status.

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Preserve the agent-reported status before flavor normalization and pass it to shouldPersistToolUpdate in both paths. Add a regression test that verifies an agent-reported completed or failed update persists when normalization changes its status.

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Compare visible output text instead of its length, so same-length
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Grok sends { type: "Text", text } output, which the field list missed.
Comparing the whole rawOutput covers every shape; streamed arguments
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github-actions Bot added a commit to omarcresp/t3code-flake that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
## What's Changed
* feat(providers): run Muse Code as a native provider by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17082
* feat(web): compact-before-send is a chip that shows the token count by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17127
* fix(clients): copy button is back in its old spot, before fork by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17137
* fix(usage): repeat usage scans no longer decode unchanged Antigravity databases by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17139
* fix(server): shell snapshots no longer block other database reads while decoding by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17141
* perf(server): ACP tool updates no longer persist a snapshot per streamed chunk by @darjss in pingdotgg/t3code#16682
* feat(web): filter the Usage page to just the providers you want by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#16970
* fix(usage): Cursor account history loads about 4x faster by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17140
* fix(server): threads settle as soon as branch status sees their PR merge by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17148
* perf(usage): the Usage page shows numbers in under a second and dims only what is still loading by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17147
* fix(server): an agent can settle its own thread when its turn ends by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17145
* feat(web): Add provider button sits with the provider list by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17152

## New Contributors
* @darjss made their first contribution in pingdotgg/t3code#16682

**Full Changelog**: pingdotgg/t3code@v0.0.46-nightly.20261008.2813...v0.0.46-nightly.20261008.2819

Upstream release: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/releases/tag/v0.0.46-nightly.20261008.2819
github-actions Bot added a commit to davidvanderklay/t3code-flake that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
## What's Changed
* feat(providers): run Muse Code as a native provider by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17082
* feat(web): compact-before-send is a chip that shows the token count by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17127
* fix(clients): copy button is back in its old spot, before fork by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17137
* fix(usage): repeat usage scans no longer decode unchanged Antigravity databases by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17139
* fix(server): shell snapshots no longer block other database reads while decoding by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17141
* perf(server): ACP tool updates no longer persist a snapshot per streamed chunk by @darjss in pingdotgg/t3code#16682
* feat(web): filter the Usage page to just the providers you want by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#16970
* fix(usage): Cursor account history loads about 4x faster by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17140
* fix(server): threads settle as soon as branch status sees their PR merge by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17148
* perf(usage): the Usage page shows numbers in under a second and dims only what is still loading by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17147
* fix(server): an agent can settle its own thread when its turn ends by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17145
* feat(web): Add provider button sits with the provider list by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#17152

## New Contributors
* @darjss made their first contribution in pingdotgg/t3code#16682

**Full Changelog**: pingdotgg/t3code@v0.0.46-nightly.20261008.2813...v0.0.46-nightly.20261008.2819

Upstream release: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/releases/tag/v0.0.46-nightly.20261008.2819
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[Bug]: V2 ACP adapter persists every streamed tool_call_update, Devin file writes bloat statev2.sqlite

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