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Problem

When Grok asks a question (x.ai/ask_user_question), T3 stops reading anything else Grok sends until the user answers. The ACP protocol reader handled extension requests inline and waited for the handler to finish before reading the next line. Grok's question handler finishes only when the user replies.

While the question is open, later session/update notifications sit unread. So do responses to T3's own requests and core requests such as permission prompts or terminal and file calls from parallel or background work. The thread looks frozen, and that work stalls until the question is answered.

Core client requests (session/request_permission, fs/*, terminal/*) don't have this problem because they go through the RpcServer queue and run concurrently.

Change

packages/effect-acp/src/protocol.ts now forks the extension request chain into the protocol's scope with startImmediately: true. The reader keeps going while a handler waits. onIncomingRequest still completes on the reader before the next line is read, as on the core-request path, and only the handler chain is forked. This follows the Codex app-server sibling (effect-codex-app-server handleRequest), which forks request handlers and routes failures to handleTermination.

Before this change, any failure or defect in that chain ended the reader, and the reader then terminated the connection. That behavior stays: the reader's cause-to-AcpError normalization moves into a small terminateWithCause helper, and both the reader and the forked chain use it. Plain scope interruption is ignored. A forked chain that terminates the connection does not fail the reader, so the reader checks the protocol's existing ensureActive termination guard before routing each message. After termination it stops reading instead of running onIncomingRequest or queuing later requests (CodeRabbit finding).

Scope and approval

Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so no prior issue: an extension request handler that waits (as Grok's question handler does by design) should not stop the connection from reading. About 20 non-test lines changed in one file.

Overlap search: the local PR index and gh search ("extension request" acp, ask_user_question, grok question stuck) turned up nothing that touches this. The closest:

• fix(acp): bound extension requests with per-request timeout option #14138 (closed): added per-request timeouts for extension requests, not concurrent handling.
• fix(acp): a blank line from an ACP agent no longer ends the session #28851 (open): blank-line framing in the same reader, which is a different problem.
• fix(codex): app-server stdout keeps draining while notification handlers wait #28711 (open): the analogous notification-handler change in the Codex app-server package.

Verification

• New test keeps reading while an extension request handler waits (packages/effect-acp/src/protocol.test.ts). On main it fails with Error: Test timed out in 5000ms. because the later session/update is never delivered. It passes with the fix.
• Extended the existing terminates when a callback on the reader dies test with an extension request whose onIncomingRequest dies. With a typed-only catch it fails (Test timed out in 5000ms.); with this change it passes. A third case uses a stdout writer that always fails, so extension request 9 terminates the connection, then sends request 10. Without the reader guard it fails with expected '$t3:jsonrpc:number:10' to equal 'stopped' because the observer still sees request 10. With the guard, the reader stops and the observer never sees it.
• vp test run effect-acp (all 6 files): 70 passed. provider-grok: 83 passed. provider-acp: 92 passed. apps/server GrokAdapterV2.test.ts: 10 passed. AntigravityTextGeneration.test.ts: 32 passed.
• CI=true vp run check:changed: all pass (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 14 packages, tests).
• Not checked: a live Grok session with a question open while background work runs.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 5 rounds with GPT-6.1 Sol on high. Sol verdict: approved. Round 1 found that defects in the forked chain no longer terminated the connection, which is fixed above. Round 3 approved moving onIncomingRequest out of the fork (CodeRabbit finding). Round 4 found that the termination guard first evaluated routing eagerly, so a synchronous onIncomingRequest still ran after termination. That is now fixed, and round 5 approved it.

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Verdict: Approved at 087b1d7

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — ACP extension handlers can now wait for user answers without freezing other session traffic. Protocol-scoped lifetimes and retained termination guards keep the change bounded, with no changes to permissions or product defaults.

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Recheck activity after onIncomingRequest completes.

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Review comments at @packages/effect-acp/src/protocol.ts:
- Around line 766-776: Update the shared observeIncoming effect to run
ensureActive after onIncomingRequest completes, including when no callback is
configured. This rechecks activity before either the extension handler starts or
a server request is enqueued, so work is rejected if termination occurred while
the callback was suspended.

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Walkthrough

The protocol now routes messages only while active and uses shared termination handling for reader and extension-handler failures. Extension-request handlers run in the protocol scope, allowing the reader to process notifications while a handler waits.

Changes: ACP protocol handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Normalize protocol termination packages/effect-acp/src/protocol.ts, packages/effect-acp/src/protocol.test.ts	A shared helper normalizes causes for termination, and the reader checks that the protocol is active before routing messages. Tests check termination after an incoming-request observer fails and confirm that a stdout write failure stops processing later requests.
Run extension handlers in protocol scope packages/effect-acp/src/protocol.ts, packages/effect-acp/src/protocol.test.ts	The protocol captures its scope and forks extension-request handlers in that scope. Parse errors remain request errors, interrupt-only causes are ignored, and other failures terminate the protocol. Tests check the response and confirm the reader processes a session update while a handler waits.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ACP transport
  participant Protocol reader
  participant Extension request handler
  participant Session update observer
  ACP transport->>Protocol reader: Send extension request
  Protocol reader->>Extension request handler: Fork handler in protocol scope
  ACP transport->>Protocol reader: Send session update
  Protocol reader->>Session update observer: Process session update
  Extension request handler-->>ACP transport: Emit extension response

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#28697: Extension handlers run separately from the reader, so the reader can process incoming messages while a handler waits. The PR does not modify the Codex package.

Suggested reviewers: hieu-lee

Merge Risk: Low · up to 087b1

A request may run after the connection fails without receiving a response. The risk is limited to this timing race.

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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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