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…ore its prompt A steer offered with priority "now" before the opening prompt reaches the model can make Claude Code run the steer first and the prompt afterwards as a separate turn. The Claude adapter now holds such steers until the prompt's first model output, then offers them as before. Fixes pingdotgg#22531
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Queue and release startup steers apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts |
Active turn state tracks prompt streaming and queued steers with their PDF reservations. Eligible root output triggers ordered delivery. Finalization releases reservations for queued steers that remain. |
Startup steer regression coverage apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts |
Tests cover frame processing, startup prompt gating with and without init echoes, FIFO ordering, held attachment reservations, and wake-harness offer callbacks. |
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low
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sequenceDiagram
participant ClaudeAdapterV2
participant ActiveClaudeTurnContext
participant ClaudeSDK
ClaudeAdapterV2->>ActiveClaudeTurnContext: Queue startup steer and hold reservation
ClaudeSDK->>ClaudeAdapterV2: Send eligible root output
ClaudeAdapterV2->>ActiveClaudeTurnContext: Drain queued steers in order
ClaudeAdapterV2->>ClaudeSDK: Offer queued steers
Possibly related issues
pingdotgg/t3code#23271— The issue reports startup steers being rejected before a provider turn is available; this change queues startup steers until eligible root output arrives.
Suggested labels: bugfix
Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge
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If a turn ends without model output, a steer sent during startup can be dropped. This known limitation warrants owner awareness but does not establish a broader merge blocker.
Security architecture risk: 4945a
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The change affects message ordering within an existing run without adding access or privileges. The main tradeoff is that messages still waiting when the run ends are discarded rather than retried; termination and interruption behavior have less direct verification than normal delivery.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.Security review details
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Security Blast Radius
- inferred — The demonstrated exposure remains steering of an already active turn through its existing session. The production delta changes delivery timing, not the available callers, credential scope, runtime permissions, or tool authority.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
- observed — Release requires the current query, a root stream or non-synthetic assistant frame, and compatible prompt identity. Explicitly different prompt identifiers do not release held steers. Untagged output remains acceptable when the session is not known to echo prompt identifiers early, so this is compatibility-based correlation rather than universal cryptographic provenance.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
- observed — The production offer implementation places messages into a local queue, and close shuts that queue down before closing the runtime. Stream processing captures failures and finalizes the owning active turn as interrupted or failed, rather than transferring ownership to a replacement query.
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main fix: preventing Claude steers from running before the opening prompt during turn startup. Description check The description provides the problem, implementation, behavior change, linked issue, and detailed verification results. The content is mostly complete, although it presents the Problem, Change, and Sc… Linked Issues check Issue #22531coding requirements are met.ClaudeAdapterV2.tsholds startup steers inheldSteersand returns before offering them. Lifecycle frames,init, synthetic assistant frames, child output…Out of Scope Changes check The changes stay within issue #22531. Production changes implement startup-steer holding, FIFO release, turn cleanup, and related PDF reservation handling. Test harness and attachment-test changes sup…Full details: Description check
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#22531coding requirements are met.ClaudeAdapterV2.tsholds startup steers inheldSteersand returns before offering them. Lifecycle frames,init, synthetic assistant frames, child output, and output correlated with another prompt do not release the held steers. The adapter offers held steers in FIFO order after eligible root prompt output, withpriority: "now", and keeps the run active while the prompt is pending. The parameterized adapter test covers startup with and without aninitecho and verifies no premature offer. Tests also cover FIFO ordering and held attachment reservations across compaction.
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#22531. Production changes implement startup-steer holding, FIFO release, turn cleanup, and related PDF reservation handling. Test harness and attachment-test changes support deterministic coverage of these behaviors. No unrelated product behavior or unrelated files appear in the reviewed changes.
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- Around line 8798-8896: Update the test around the lifecycle frames in the
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- Around line 9829-9832: Update ClaudeAdapterV2.steerTurn so adding a message to
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rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'steerTurn' -e 'ProviderAdapterV2SteerInput' -e 'SteerRunError' -e 'deliveryIntent' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2 apps/server/test || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- dropped-steer notices, retry, and relevant tests ---'
rg -n -i --glob '*.{ts,tsx}' -e 'held.*steer' -e 'dropped.*steer' -e 'steer.*dropped' -e 'system_notice' -e 'follow-up' -e 'followup' apps/server/src apps/server/test || test "$?" -eq 1
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Do not acknowledge a held steer as delivered before release.
ProviderTurnControlService.steer treats a successful session.steerTurn call as success. ClaudeAdapterV2.steerTurn returns successfully after it adds the message to heldSteers. If the turn ends before the first qualifying root model frame, finalization only logs the drop. It does not emit a user-visible notice or retry the steer.
The deliberate-drop intent does not satisfy the existing success path. Either keep the submission pending until release, or propagate the drop so the orchestrator starts the follow-up turn.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts
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Update ClaudeAdapterV2.steerTurn so adding a message to currentTurn.heldSteers
does not report successful delivery before release. Keep the submission pending
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Agreed: if the turn ends before the opening prompt produces model output, a held steer is dropped without reaching Claude. Keeping the steer effect pending until release would block Stop and dialog responses behind it in the thread's provider-effect lane. Recovering a drop after the steer has returned needs asynchronous orchestration handling, related to the delivery-recovery work in #22423. I'd suggest leaving that for a follow-up; the limitation is disclosed in the PR and logged as orchestration-v2.claude-held-steers-dropped.
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🟠 Major · Cover correlated root stream_event release in the startup… · ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts:8797-8900
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winCover correlated root
stream_eventrelease in the startup test.
handleSdkMessagehas a separate release path for rootstream_eventframes, but this test only sends assistant frames before checking the held steer. A regression that releases an unrelated root event or a child event before the prompt’s correlated root event would pass. Add both negative cases, assert that the steer remains held, then send a rootstream_eventwithuser_message_uuid: promptUuidand assert release.Suggested fix
]) { yield* harness.offerAndWait( claudeSdkFrame({ session_id: WAKE_NATIVE_SESSION, ...frame }), ); } + for (const frame of [ + { + type: "stream_event", + event: { type: "message_start", message: { id: "unrelated-stream" } }, + parent_tool_use_id: null, + uuid: "unrelated-stream", + user_message_uuid: "other", + }, + { + type: "stream_event", + event: { type: "message_start", message: { id: "child-stream" } }, + parent_tool_use_id: "child-tool", + uuid: "child-stream", + }, + ]) { + yield* harness.offerAndWait( + claudeSdkFrame({ session_id: WAKE_NATIVE_SESSION, ...frame }), + ); + } assert.lengthOf(harness.offeredMessages, 1); assert.equal(lastProviderTurn(harness.events).status, "running"); + yield* harness.offerAndWait( + claudeSdkFrame({ + type: "stream_event", + event: { type: "message_start", message: { id: "prompt-stream" } }, + parent_tool_use_id: null, + uuid: "prompt-stream", + session_id: WAKE_NATIVE_SESSION, + user_message_uuid: promptUuid, + }), + ); + assert.lengthOf(harness.offeredMessages, 2); + // Until a CLI is known to echo early, untagged output counts as the prompt's. yield* harness.offerAndWait(🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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8797-8900: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe test does not assert that a held steer cannot complete the run before the opening prompt produces eligible output. It only checks
harness.offeredMessagesand thatlastProviderTurn(harness.events).statusremains"running". An implementation that emits or accepts a steer result before the prompt answer could still satisfy both assertions because no terminal/result event is injected or checked.Add a terminal/result frame immediately after the held-steer setup and assert that the run does not complete, or assert the harness run state directly if that is the established helper. Keep the existing
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frames, confirming the steer remains held; then send a root stream_event
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offeredMessages assertions and separate any stream_event correlation coverage
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Note Claude writing on behalf of @r3xsean. Added a child I haven't added the suggested result assertion: the opening prompt can legitimately finish before producing model output. Dropping held steers in that case is the limitation discussed in the open thread above. Also merged |
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Claude writing on behalf of @r3xsean.
Fixes #22531.
A steer sent while Claude was still starting up on the opening prompt was offered with priority
now, and Claude Code could run it first: the model answered the steer without the prompt's context, and the prompt ran afterwards as a separate turn.The Claude adapter now holds a steer until the opening prompt's first model output, then offers it with
nowas before; held steers go out in the order they were sent. Lifecycle events,init, synthetic notices, and output tagged for another prompt don't release them. Holding returns immediately, so it doesn't block the thread's effect queue. A held steer's PDF budget reservation stays pending until the steer is offered, so a compaction while it waits doesn't drop it from the count.One behaviour change: a turn that ends without any model output (for example a bare
/goalstatus check) now drops a held steer with a warning log, where previously the steer could run as a separate turn.Verification
message_start.ClaudeAdapterV2.test.tsandClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration.test.tson Windows: all pass except 13 that fail the same way onmainhere (12 attachment tests whose path assertions don't matchJSON.stringify's escaped backslashes, and "pins tool search on when the user's Claude settings choose auto"). With those path assertions made backslash-tolerant locally on both, 237 of 239 pass versus 233 of 235 onmain, and the same two fail on both: the tool-search test, and a login-error test that the temporary patch itself breaks.tsc-rs --noEmitinapps/server: no errors in server sources.Written by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code via T3 Code; reviewed by GPT-6-Astra in Codex.