fix(claude): steers sent during compaction no longer abort it by juliusmarminge · Pull Request #25848 · pingdotgg/t3code

juliusmarminge · 2026-10-27T09:12:39Z

Problem

While Claude Code is compacting context automatically, a steer offered at priority "now" aborts the compaction (compact_result: failed, compact_error: aborted, result aborted_streaming), and Claude starts compacting again. A coordinator thread that receives frequent t3_thread_send steers can keep restarting its compaction. To reproduce, send a steer to a Claude thread while its timeline shows "Compacting context".

Change

ClaudeAdapterV2 holds steers on the active turn while its compaction runs. The hold check runs under the existing sdkMessageLock. Once the compaction ends (its compact_result status, or a bare compact_boundary on CLI versions that send only that), the held steers are offered in order at priority "now", so the same turn answers them.
steerTurn waits until its steer is actually offered, so a steer reports success only once Claude has it. If the turn ends while the steer is held, steerTurn fails with the existing "ended before the steer was sent" error, and the existing steer-follow-up path re-dispatches the message.
Stop cancels held steers instead of offering them, and releases their PDF reservations.
dispatchRunInterrupt now also cancels unsettled provider-turn.steer effects, the same way it already cancels provider-turn.start/restart. The effect outbox runs one effect per thread at a time, so without this a steer waiting out a compaction would hold Stop until the compaction ended. This applies to every provider: a steer still waiting to reach the provider when Stop arrives is cancelled, where before it was delivered and then interrupted.

Scope and approval

Fixes #25796

Verification

Server-only change with no visible surface, so the proof is tests plus their transcripts.

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts:
- "holds steers sent during compaction until the compaction ends"
- "cancels a steer held for compaction when the turn is stopped"
- "fails a steer held for compaction when the turn ends first"
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts:
- "Stop cancels a steer still waiting to reach the provider"
Red on main: the first version of the hold test, run against main's adapter, fails with a steer sent while compacting reached Claude before the compaction ended: expected [...] to have a length of 1 but got 3 (red-main.log). With ClaudeAdapterV2.ts and Orchestrator.ts reverted to main, all four tests above fail.
Green on the branch: both files pass 260 tests, 28 of them matching "steer" (green-branch.log). The EffectWorker, ProviderTurnControlService, ThreadStop, DelegatedCompletionDelivery, ClaudeAutomaticDelivery and BackgroundWorkStop test files also pass. vp run check:changed passes.
Not checked: a live Claude Code compaction. The tests feed the adapter the SDK frames from the report (status: compacting, compact_result, compact_boundary).

Evidence: none, because nothing visible changes.

Claude Opus 5.5 (implementation, review) and GPT-6.1 Sol (review), run through T3 Code with Claude Code and Codex.

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This test reproduces #25796: a steer sent while Claude is compacting is offered to the SDK query at priority "now" right away, which aborts the compaction. The test expects the adapter to hold steers until the compact_result status arrives, then offer them in order. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Claude Code aborts automatic compaction when a priority "now" user message arrives while it compacts, then restarts it. The adapter now holds steers on the active turn while its compaction runs and offers them, in order and still with priority "now", once the compaction result status (or a bare compact_boundary) arrives, so the steer is answered in the same turn. steerTurn returns immediately, so Stop is never queued behind compaction. Stop offers held steers before interrupting, and a turn that ends with steers still held drops them and releases their PDF reservations. Fixes #25796 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

A steer held for compaction made steerTurn succeed at once, so a delegated message was accepted as delivered and then dropped if the turn ended before the compaction did. Stop also offered held steers mid-compaction instead of cancelling them. steerTurn now waits until its held steer is offered, and fails with the existing "ended before the steer was sent" error when the turn ends first, so the follow-up re-dispatch applies. Stop drops held steers without offering them. Because a waiting steer blocks the thread's effect queue, a run interrupt on a live provider turn now also cancels unsettled steer effects, which interrupts the waiting steerTurn instead of making Stop wait for the compaction. Fixes #25796 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

macroscopeapp · 2026-10-27T09:15:12Z

Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This fix changes asynchronous steer delivery and Stop cancellation semantics, including a cross-provider outbox behavior change. The added lock/deferred state and turn-lifecycle coordination are sufficiently nontrivial to warrant human review despite focused regression tests.

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github-actions · 2026-10-27T09:16:49Z

Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ The exact PR base did not have a successful artifact. Baseline uses the latest successful main measurement shown below.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+6 B (+0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.3 KiB	+6 B (+0.5%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.6 KiB	21.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−29 B (−0.6%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.3 KiB	1.2 KiB	−29 B (−2.3%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	−41 B (−0.2%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	1	−1 (−50.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 1ebbc20 · PR result: 4376e09 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-27T09:22:18Z

Walkthrough

Claude turns now hold steers received during compaction and offer them in order after compaction ends. Held steers fail if the turn stops or ends first. Run interruption also cancels pending steer effects.

Changes: Claude steer delivery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hold, release, and validate steers `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts`	ClaudeAdapterV2 queues steers during compaction or behind earlier held steers. It releases them in order when compaction ends. Held steers fail if the turn stops or ends first. Tests cover ordered release and both failure cases.
Cancel pending steers on interruption `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/SteeringCompletion.integration.test.ts`	`dispatchRunInterrupt` requests cancellation of unsettled steer effects. The integration test verifies that stopping during a pending steer interrupts the provider turn.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant ClaudeAdapterV2
  participant ClaudeQuery
  Caller->>ClaudeAdapterV2: Submit steer during compaction
  ClaudeAdapterV2->>ClaudeAdapterV2: Queue steer
  ClaudeAdapterV2->>ClaudeAdapterV2: Release held steers after compaction
  ClaudeAdapterV2->>ClaudeQuery: Offer steers in submission order

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 4376e

Pressing Stop while a steer is still waiting to be sent can leave that message looking delivered although the provider never received it. Record an undelivered or failed outcome for cancelled steers before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: preventing steers received during Claude compaction from aborting the compaction.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the reproduction, implementation, linked issue, test coverage, observed results, limit…
Linked Issues check		Issue [`#25796`] requires held steers during Claude compaction, ordered delivery on completion, same-turn handling, and cancellation of undelivered input on Stop or turn end. `ClaudeAdapterV2` adds a lo…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed adapter, orchestrator, and tests support the linked issue [`#25796`]. The generic interruption change applies pending steer cancellation across providers, but it directly supports the requir…

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Issue [#25796] requires held steers during Claude compaction, ordered delivery on completion, same-turn handling, and cancellation of undelivered input on Stop or turn end. ClaudeAdapterV2 adds a lock-protected hold queue, releases it after compact_result or compact_boundary, waits for actual offer completion, and fails held steers when the turn ends or stops. Orchestrator cancels pending steer effects on interruption. The PR adds regression coverage for ordered release, Stop, turn end, and pending-steer interruption. These changes also preserve the existing follow-up path through the provider error for an unsent steer.

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Explanation

The changed adapter, orchestrator, and tests support the linked issue [#25796]. The generic interruption change applies pending steer cancellation across providers, but it directly supports the required Stop behavior and prevents Stop from waiting behind an undelivered steer. No unrelated change is established.

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-27T09:22:22Z

+    // A steer still waiting to reach the provider is cancelled, so the interrupt never queues behind it.
+    return {
+      effectTypes: ["provider-turn.steer"],
+      reason: `Run ${run.id} was interrupted before its steer was sent.`,
+    } satisfies {
+      readonly effectTypes: ReadonlyArray<OrchestrationEffectRequestV2["type"]>;
+      readonly reason: string;
+    };


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#!/bin/bash # Find how cancelUnsettledEffects is applied and whether a cancelled steer records an outcome. rg -nP -C6 'cancelUnsettledEffects' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2 --type=ts -g '!**/*.test.ts' rg -nP -C8 '"provider-turn\.steer"' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2 --type=ts -g '!**/*.test.ts' rg -nP -C6 'awaitCancellation|clearCancellation|requestCancellation|cancelUnsettled' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts

Repository: pingdotgg/t3code

Length of output: 26287

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rg -n -C12 -F -- 'awaitCancellation(effect.id)' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts rg -n -C12 -F -- 'cancelled' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts sed -n '443,481p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts rg -n -C10 -F -- 'inputIntent: "steer"' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts

Repository: pingdotgg/t3code

Length of output: 7741

Record an outcome for each cancelled steer.

dispatchRunInterrupt cancels unsettled provider-turn.steer effects. EffectOutbox.cancelUnsettled updates only the effect row. When the worker wins the cancellation race, it returns before executing the steer and its outcome handling. A steer held for compaction or pending in the outbox can therefore remain without an undelivered or failed message outcome.

Record an undelivered or failed state for each cancelled steer message before committing the cancellation. Emit an error turn item for each cancelled provider-turn.steer effect.

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-25796

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fix(composer): steer instead of queueing during automatic compaction #24138

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