[Alb11747]

Problem

AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts fails intermittently on Linux CI. Observed on "the agent's own mode picker > switches a mode config option under its own id":

AcpTransportError: Failed to decode ACP replay status for stored-mode-pick
Caused by: SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input

The replay agent (apps/server/scripts/acp-replay-agent.ts) sends each recorded frame and only then writes its progress to the status file. The test receives the transcript's last answer, closes the session (which stops the agent), and reads the status. On Linux, pipe writes are synchronous, so the client can see the answer and stop the agent while the status write is still in progress (empty file) or hasn't happened yet (cursor one short).

Change

• The agent records its progress before sending each frame, so the status is final by the time the client sees the last answer. emitInbound becomes inboundMessage, which builds the message, and flushInbound calls advance() before send().
• A clean recorded exit (runtime_exit with success or cancelled) that directly follows an entry counts in the same status write. Transcripts such as Grok's end with an answer followed by an exit, and that exit would otherwise be recorded only after the answer was sent.

Scope and approval

A very small fix for an obvious bug in test infrastructure: a flaky completeness check caused by write ordering in the replay agent. It doesn't change product behavior; only the test agent script changes.

Verification

• Reproduced the race on Linux (Node 24) with a standalone script mirroring the agent and test: a child process sends a line and writes a status file, and the parent kills it as soon as the line arrives, then reads the status. Over 300 runs each:
  • send, then write (old order): 7 empty files, 289 outdated cursors.
  • write, then send (new order): 0 empty, 0 outdated.
• Linux CI before rebase: upstream's release checks (all server, web, and quality jobs) passed in the fork: https://github.com/Alb11747/t3code/actions/runs/38841484633.
• Current head (2dfba44a6d): targeted lint/format and server typecheck pass; focused registry/Grok tests: 23 passed, 1 known Windows failure because the fixture has no win32-x64 distribution. Replay behavior matches the previously validated head. Sol xhigh review found no issues.
• Current Linux CI: all seven fork check jobs passed at https://github.com/Alb11747/t3code/actions/runs/38857400943.
• Focused tests, Windows: AcpAdapterV2.test.ts, AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts, GrokAdapterV2.test.ts, and OrchestratorReplayFixtures.integration.test.ts: 281 passed, 5 failed. The same 5 fail on main without this change, for unrelated Windows-only reasons (no win32 fixture distribution, Claude replay fixtures).
• Lint, format, and apps/server typecheck pass.
• Not checked: the original failure doesn't reproduce in 20 local Windows runs, likely because Node writes to pipes asynchronously there. The Linux script above is the reproduction.

Written by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (running in T3 Code), maintained by GPT-6.1 Sol (high) and reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol (xhigh) in Codex through T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 9abe1db

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped, test-only race fix that makes replay status durable before frames are emitted and updates a related comment. It does not alter product behavior, defaults, schemas, deployment, or static-analysis configuration.

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📝 Walkthrough

The ACP replay agent now constructs inbound JSON-RPC messages before sending them, advances the transcript before each send, and skips consecutive successful or cancelled runtime exits when updating status.

Changes: ACP replay behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inbound JSON-RPC conversion apps/server/scripts/acp-replay-agent.ts	inboundMessage returns a notification, request, or response. If a response has no pending client request, it records a failure and returns no message.
Transcript and status sequencing apps/server/scripts/acp-replay-agent.ts	advance skips consecutive successful or cancelled runtime exits. flushInbound advances the transcript before sending each constructed message. Other runtime exits still produce a failure.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2dfba

The replay test can report completion before its final frame is delivered. Add the delivery-settled check before relying on this test’s completion status.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🟡 Medium · up to 2dfba

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: apps/server

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/scripts/acp-replay-agent.ts: advance now skips consecutive clean exits—those with success or cancelled status—before writing status. The new isCleanExit helper defines which runtime exits qualify.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/scripts/acp-replay-agent.ts: Replaces emitInbound, which sent frames directly, with inboundMessage, which returns the constructed notification, request, or response. If a response has no pending client request, it records a failure and returns undefined; otherwise, it removes the pending request mapping and returns the response.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/scripts/acp-replay-agent.ts: The runtime-exit check now uses isCleanExit; exits not classified as clean still produce the recorded-runtime-exit failure.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/scripts/acp-replay-agent.ts: flushInbound now obtains a message from inboundMessage, stops processing if construction failed, advances the transcript, then sends the message. This replaces sending first and advancing afterward.

Reliability and maintainability

• inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for apps/server: blast_radius_1; direct_dependents_1

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Review comments at @apps/server/scripts/acp-replay-agent.ts:
- Around line 255-260: In flushInbound, keep the pre-send advance() call but
track each pending stdout write so replay completeness cannot be accepted while
a frame is still being written. Update send() to decrement the pending-write
count when its callback completes, record callback errors as replay failures,
and expose pending-write state in the status consumed by the completeness
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Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Thanks for this. I'm closing it as part of PR triage. Right now we're only taking focused bug fixes from outside contributors (see Read this first), and this PR is not one.

From the review: This changes ACP replay status timing and its test assertion, without changing production behavior. Changes to test infrastructure need maintainer agreement first.

If you think this was a mistake, message me on Twitter at @maria_rcks and I'll take another look.