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Problem

Images returned by MCP tools and OpenCode tools, including the HTML preview screenshot, did not appear in expanded tool details. JSON tool arguments and results also lacked syntax highlighting.

Change

Preserve image content alongside structured MCP results and extract inline images from OpenCode tool attachments. Render those images in web tool details. Add JSON highlighting for valid JSON tool arguments and results across web, desktop, and mobile, and HTML highlighting for preview input.

The CI Test job also escapes non-ASCII console output to work around repeated runner crashes while validating this PR. The runner failed with EncoderFallbackException on multiple workers and published no test log. Escaping the output allowed CI to publish its test failures, which exposed two Pi assertions affected by the new formatting behavior. The same tests run, and pipefail preserves their exit status.

Scope and approval

Requested directly by a maintainer in T3 Code, including provider compatibility, syntax highlighting, verification, and squash merge after CI and review. This fixes missing output from existing tool calls and formatting in their details. The CI logging workaround is included because repeated runner failures blocked validation of this change.

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Focused tests cover MCP and OpenCode image outputs and JSON detection, including multiple JSON documents and invalid JSON. Pi coverage also verifies that native file text remains readable when its result includes metadata, while screenshots display structured JSON beside their images. The iOS client check confirmed that the HTML preview details show its screenshot and formatted JSON. All 729 affected tests and changed-file checks passed.

vp run check:changed passed formatting, lint, Knip, GraphQL validation, affected-package typechecks, 10 focused test files with 729 passing tests, and the React compiler checks. Earlier counts of 619 and 623 came before subsequent fixes and the main-branch update. Local probes of the CI log pipeline verified exit codes 0 and 7, stderr forwarding, and emoji escaping.

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Verdict: Approved at 81a30ee

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Tool images from MCP and OpenCode are preserved for display, with improved structured-output highlighting. Existing image-type, count, and serving-size safeguards limit exposure; the CI change only sanitizes test output.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 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 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.5 KiB 21.5 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 24.4 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 1 1 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 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 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.9 KiB 21.9 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 24.4 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 1 1 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅

Baseline: 9aa80a0 · PR result: 81a30ee · 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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MCP adapters now preserve image content in tool results. OpenCode passes file attachments through live and backfilled tool output. Mobile and web inspectors render output images separately and highlight recognized JSON and HTML, alongside TypeScript highlighting for JavaScript REPL code.

Changes: Tool output preservation and inspection

Layer / File(s) Summary
MCP result normalization
packages/shared/src/toolOutput.ts, packages/shared/src/toolOutput.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/OpenCode2AdapterV2.test.ts
A shared helper selects MCP result output and retains content with images when structured content is present. Claude, Codex, and ACP use the helper. Cursor projects successful MCP text and image parts into completed tool output. Tests cover image output and dynamic-tool lifecycle updates.
OpenCode file attachments in tool output
packages/provider-opencode/src/server/toolItems.ts, packages/provider-opencode/src/server/toolItems.test.ts, packages/provider-opencode/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-opencode/src/server/adapter.test.ts, packages/provider-opencode/src/server/v2/adapter.ts
OpenCode converts supported image data-URI attachments into tool output. Live and backfilled completed tools pass file parts through the output path. Tests cover accepted and rejected image inputs.
Tool text detection and highlighting
packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/V2ItemInspector.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/thread-work-log.tsx
A shared helper recognizes JSON documents. The inspectors use it to highlight recognized JSON, render HTML arguments with HTML highlighting, and keep JavaScript REPL code highlighted as TypeScript. Tool output images render separately from text.

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

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OpenCodeToolSuccessEvent
  participant emitTool
  participant openCodeToolTurnItem
  participant openCodeToolOutput
  OpenCodeToolSuccessEvent->>emitTool: output content and file parts
  emitTool->>openCodeToolTurnItem: completed tool result and file parts
  openCodeToolTurnItem->>openCodeToolOutput: text output and file metadata
  openCodeToolOutput-->>openCodeToolTurnItem: text and supported image output
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  • pingdotgg/t3code#21746 — This PR passes OpenCode file parts from live and backfilled results into image output conversion, covering the same result-to-display path.

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The title "fix(tools): show images from MCP and OpenCode outputs" matches the main change. The PR preserves image content in MCP results, extracts inline images from OpenCode tool attachments, and renders those images in web tool details. It follows the conventional commit format. The title does not mention the JSON and HTML syntax highlighting work, which is a secondary part of the changeset. That omission is acceptable because the title does not need to cover every detail.

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Outside diff Keep structured MCP details visible when preserving images.

40-44: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep structured MCP details visible when preserving images.

codexMcpToolOutput now preserves both fields so images remain available, but turnItemOutputText formats that envelope from content only. This changes the base behavior and can hide structured details such as temp: 21 in both inspectors. Keep content for image extraction, but add a display path for the normalized envelope that formats structuredContent instead of discarding it.

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Review comment at @packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.ts around
lines 40 - 44:
Update turnItemOutputText to recognize the normalized envelope containing both
content and structuredContent: retain content for image extraction, and add a
display path that formats structuredContent so details remain visible in both
inspectors.
Outside diff Preserve external MCP tools as dynamic tools.

195-197: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Preserve external MCP tools as dynamic tools.

For an external MCP name such as mcp__acme__edit_document, resolveT3McpToolId returns null because it recognizes only T3 server aliases. The edit check then selects file_change, which drops result.files. The web work-log and asset consumers only read images from dynamic_tool items, so the inline image is absent from the expanded tool details.

Carry the MCP classification into openCodeToolTurnItem, or recognize the generic OpenCode MCP namespace before the edit check. Keep native OpenCode edit tools on the file_change branch.

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Update openCodeToolTurnItem to recognize generic OpenCode MCP tool names,
including external names such as mcp__acme__edit_document, before the edit-name
check and preserve them as dynamic_tool items with their result.files. Keep
native OpenCode edit tools on the existing file_change branch.
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Verified both findings in the latest CodeRabbit review and fixed them within the existing tool-output scope.

  • Structured MCP metadata now remains the displayed result when image content accompanies it. Regression cases cover image-only content, a prose summary, and duplicate JSON content while preserving the image resource.
  • Explicit mcp__… names now stay dynamic tools before OpenCode's native edit-name heuristic. The OpenCode 2 replay covers mcp__acme__edit_document with an inline image. Native edit classification is unchanged.

Both regressions failed before the fixes and now pass. All 623 affected tests pass.

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Holding the merge because the Test job has crashed in GitHub Runner on three attempts of the current commit, including two reruns on different Blacksmith workers. The repeated annotation is System.Text.EncoderFallbackException: Unable to translate Unicode character \\uD83D at index 500 to specified code page, with stack frames in GitHub.Runner.Common.HostTraceListener and GitHub.Runner.Worker.Program. The job reaches the Test step but never records its completion; this does not establish that the suite passed or that an application assertion failed.

Latest failed attempt: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/actions/runs/41729261310/job/126247395354

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Upstream pingdotgg#30389 makes turnItemOutputText render structuredContent as JSON,
and updated Pi's matching tests the same way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**v0.1.8-nightly.20261104.4165** · 26 changes from 2 contributors

- **Claude model discovery.** Choose from Claude models reported by Claude Code.
- **Tool output images.** View images returned by MCP and OpenCode tools, including HTML preview screenshots.
- **Faster Changes view.** See tracked changes sooner without waiting for unrelated comparisons or untracked file discovery.

### Plus 14 more bug fixes and performance improvements.

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<summary>Full changelog</summary>

## What's Changed
* refactor(android): every header goes through AppBar, so the filter stays put by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#26741
* refactor(mobile): one inspector column, declared with <Inspector> by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27085
* refactor(mobile): a pane's bar draws its own sidebar toggle by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27086
* refactor(mobile): Android's sidebar is the Home route in the sidebar column by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27087
* feat(mobile): medium windows float the sidebar over the page by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27088
* feat(mobile): without an inspector column, the inspector is a sheet by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27090
* docs(mobile): the five layers of the mobile layout, with x-ray diagrams by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27107
* refactor(mobile): the inspector's bar is its pane's AppBar by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27205
* fix(mobile): the iPad inspector hides the sidebar where the page would get too narrow by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27218
* fix(mobile): iPad workspace tabs live in the sidebar and leave with it by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27229
* fix(mobile): the drawer surface is only for a sidebar beside a page by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#27289
* feat(server): list Claude models reported by Claude Code by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30511
* fix(relay): production deploys no longer hang while computing the plan by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30513
* fix(web): give dialog titles a readable line height by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30527
* fix(tools): show images from MCP and OpenCode outputs by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30389
* fix(mobile): smoother Settings and composer transitions on wide Android by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#26297
* fix(mobile): the Android split slides as one strip, so sidebar and detail pane always fill the width by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#26328
* fix(server): retry unstarted runs after recovery by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30560
* perf(server): narrow agent awareness startup reads by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30561
* fix(web): validate terminal links against filesystem metadata by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30526
* fix(server): avoid message ordering scans during recovery and settlement by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30582
* fix(client-runtime): expire missing file metadata per thread by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30606
* fix(web): align usage table padding and thread status rows by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30621
* fix(mobile): every Android content pane gets its rounded card from ScreenContent by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30500
* fix(web): load selected diff metadata before file patches by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#30567


**Full Changelog**: pingdotgg/t3code@v0.1.7-nightly.20261104.4151...v0.1.8-nightly.20261104.4165

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Upstream release: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/releases/tag/v0.1.8-nightly.20261104.4165
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