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What changed

ACP, Pi, and Box now emit item.completed (assistant_text) at tool and permission boundaries instead of concatenating every delta until turn.completed.

Box keeps a pendingText buffer of actually streamed deltas (reset on flush) so a later non-prefix response is not sliced away. Fake CLIs gained an interleave mode; Box got its first contract tests against a scripted HTTP fake.

Why

A real turn that is message → tool → message → tool was shown and persisted as tools first, then one late assistant bubble. Claude and Codex already emit text before tools; ACP's happy-path test had locked in the inverted order. See #352.

How it was verified

  • pnpm typecheck
  • pnpm test — 147 files, 1514 passed, 12 skipped
  • Driver contract tests: ACP/Pi interleave plus Box prefix-growth, non-prefix-after-flush, and non-prefix prompt-result cases
  • No UI code change; live order follows once drivers emit item.completed before item.started

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n/a — no renderer changes

Checklist

  • pnpm typecheck and pnpm test pass locally
  • Server behavior changes come with tests (see CONTRIBUTING.md → Tests)
  • No dist-server/ edits (it's build output)
  • macOS-only code is platform-gated; no shell: true / cmd.exe string-building
  • No secrets in logs, responses, events, or argv

Closes #352

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved streaming response handling so assistant messages appear in the correct order around tool activity.
    • Ensured text is displayed before permission requests, tool executions, and completion states.
    • Preserved all assistant text blocks, including trailing messages and final results.
    • Added fallback messaging for successful runs with no assistant output.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for interleaved assistant messages, tool events, completion states, and failure handling across supported drivers.

ACP, Pi, and Box concatenated every assistant_text delta until turn
settle, so a message → tool → message turn persisted as tools first
and one late bubble. Flush the pending text at tool and permission
boundaries, matching Claude/Codex. Box accumulates emitted deltas in
pendingText so a non-prefix follow-up is not sliced away.

Closes milind-soni#352
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  • server/drivers/acp/core.ts
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

ACP, Pi, and Box drivers now flush assistant text before subsequent tool, permission, and terminal events. Tests and fake CLIs cover interleaved text and tool sequences, incremental Box responses, final prompt results, interruption, and failure paths.

Changes

Assistant text ordering

Layer / File(s) Summary
ACP and Pi event flushing
server/drivers/acp/*, server/drivers/pi.*, server/testing/fake-acp-cli.ts, server/testing/fake-pi-cli.ts
ACP and Pi emit completed assistant text before tool starts, permission requests, and turn completion. Interleaving fixtures and tests verify event order.
Box incremental text ingestion
server/drivers/boxagent.*
BoxAgentDriver tracks unflushed response text, preserves non-prefix responses, flushes text before tool and terminal events, and handles final, empty, interrupted, and failed prompt results.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4a67f

This change flushes assistant text before tool and permission boundaries so interleaved messages appear in the correct order; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FakeCLI
  participant ProviderDriver
  participant EventStream
  FakeCLI->>ProviderDriver: assistant text chunk
  ProviderDriver->>EventStream: assistant_text completed
  FakeCLI->>ProviderDriver: tool event
  ProviderDriver->>EventStream: tool item started
  ProviderDriver->>EventStream: turn completed
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 42.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 8 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: flushing assistant text before tool events.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes all required sections, verification details, checklist results, and the issue reference.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #352 by flushing ACP, Pi, and Box assistant text before tools and permission boundaries with supporting tests.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The driver updates, fake CLI modes, and contract tests directly support the linked issue objectives; no unrelated changes are described.
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Inline comments:
In `@server/drivers/boxagent.ts`:
- Around line 205-206: Update the terminal-state handling around the state check
in the polling flow so flushAssistantText() runs before emitting turn.completed
for cancelled and exception/failure paths, ensuring any accumulated assistant
text is finalized whenever polling stops.
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Comment thread server/drivers/boxagent.ts
Cancelled and thrown poll loops were emitting turn.completed without
finalizing pendingText, so a mid-stream interrupt dropped the last
assistant bubble. Status-failed already flushed; the loop-break and
catch paths now do too.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
server/drivers/boxagent.test.ts (1)

191-196: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the event order explicitly.

The test checks that both events exist, but it does not verify that item.completed precedes turn.completed. Add an index comparison so the test protects the ordering contract.

Proposed assertion
     const done = await recorder.until((e) => e.type === "turn.completed");
     expect(done).toMatchObject({ ok: false, stopReason: "interrupted" });
+    const assistantIndex = recorder.events.findIndex(
+      (e) => e.type === "item.completed" && (e as { itemType: string }).itemType === "assistant_text",
+    );
+    expect(assistantIndex).toBeLessThan(recorder.events.indexOf(done));
     const texts = recorder.events
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In `@server/drivers/boxagent.test.ts` around lines 191 - 196, Update the test
around recorder.until and the collected assistant_text events to assert that the
item.completed event occurs before the turn.completed event, using their
positions in recorder.events. Preserve the existing payload and text assertions.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@server/drivers/boxagent.test.ts`:
- Around line 191-196: Update the test around recorder.until and the collected
assistant_text events to assert that the item.completed event occurs before the
turn.completed event, using their positions in recorder.events. Preserve the
existing payload and text assertions.

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CodeRabbit's pre-merge docstring check is scoped to functions in the
diff and requires 80% coverage. These JSDocs describe the new flush,
ingest, and interleave-fixture helpers.
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Carried forward on current main with terminal ordering, interruption/failure flushing, whitespace-buffer cleanup, and focused driver coverage, then merged in #382. Closing this original in favor of the merged replacement; thank you @donggyun112.

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ACP/Pi/Box flush assistant text only at turn settle, so message → tool order is inverted

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