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fix(server): Claude can show the user mid-turn text in full - #36384
On Claude 5.1+ (Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Fable), text the model writes before a tool call comes back as a progress-update thinking block. The API returns only a summary of that block, under every display value (progress updates table). A draft written right before a question card reached the user as a one-line paraphrase, so they answered questions about text they never saw. T3 can't recover that text, because it is never sent to us.
Fix
This follows Anthropic's guidance for verbatim mid-turn content (Opus 5.5 prompting guide): give the model a simple tool for sending the user a message, declared from the first request.
send_to_user MCP tool. It returns its Markdown as sentMessage, which survives the wire compaction the way html_render's reference does. It is marked anthropic/alwaysLoad, so Claude Code lists it from turn 1 instead of deferring it behind ToolSearch. It is read-only, so it works in plan mode and read-only sandboxes.
Claude's appended instructions get one short section. It tells Claude that pre-tool-call text may arrive only as a summary, to use send_to_user for what must be read in full mid-turn, and to put everything else in the final reply.
Web and mobile render the message as the agent's own text, in place. It stays visible through the "Worked for" fold and in zen mode. The work log labels the call "Sent a message".
Context budget: Claude's system append grows by 336 B and the MCP tool list by 472 B (agent-context-increase).
Evidence
The question card is open, and the full draft (sent with send_to_user) is above it. Real Claude Haiku 5.5 turn, dev server:
After answering, the turn folds under "Worked for 1m 44s". Both sent messages stay visible:
Evals (mcp-tool-use, new cases/mid-turn-messages.ndjson, 3–4 samples each):
Case
Kind
Opus 5.5
Sonnet 5.5
draft-before-question-sent-in-full
bad
3/3
3/3
answer-before-bookkeeping-call
bad
4/4
4/4 (2/4 without the prompt line)
control-draft-as-final-reply
control
3/3
3/3
control-progress-updates-stay-text
control
3/3
3/3
On main, both bad cases fail because the tool doesn't exist. The ablation row shows why the prompt line stays: without it, Sonnet answers and then ends on a bookkeeping note half the time. The paid runs cost about $3.30 in total. A full-suite run per model is still owed before merge.
Tests: the fold case beside the existing html_render one in session-logic.test.ts, the wire-compaction limit in toolOutput.test.ts, and updates to the read-only allowlist and always-load checks. vp run check:changed passes, except for a test typing error it caught, which is now fixed and re-typechecked.
Surfaces
Providers: the tool is advertised to every harness. Only Claude gets the instruction, because Codex's mid-turn text arrives verbatim already. Other harnesses running Claude models can find it with tool search.
Clients: web, desktop (via web) and mobile render it. Guest shares use the web rows.
Not covered yet: thread find doesn't search sent messages, and t3_thread_read doesn't return them. To keep find counts consistent, the web row has no find marker. Follow-up.
Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude Code harness (T3 Code).
Claude 5.1+ returns text written before a tool call as a progress-update
thinking block, and the API returns only a summary of it. A draft written
before a question card reached the user as a one-line paraphrase (#32877).
Following Anthropic's guidance, T3's MCP server gains `send_to_user`, loaded
up front in Claude Code, and Claude's appended instructions say when to use it.
Web and mobile render its message as the agent's own text, kept visible
through the turn fold.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds a caller-scoped tool that displays full mid-turn messages using existing web and mobile Markdown rendering. The bounded output stays in the conversation and is retained outside deferred work, with no external delivery or environment mutation.
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Walkthrough
This change adds the send_to_user MCP tool for complete user-facing messages during a turn. Completed messages are extracted from tool output and displayed as assistant Markdown in mobile and web timelines.
Tool output retains nonblank sentMessage text up to 4,000 UTF-16 code units. Tool presentation and call summaries include send-to-user labels.
Tool registration and Claude instructions apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/message/*, apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/*, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/*
The server registers send_to_user. Claude instructions distinguish complete mid-turn messages from final replies. Allowlist checks, context budgets, evaluation cases, and inline-work handling include the tool.
Completed tool results produce sent-message entries with their text, ID, timestamp, and run ID. The entries remain outside run and attempt folds.
Mobile and web message rendering apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineAssistantRows.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.tsx
Mobile and web timelines render sent-message text with assistant Markdown presentation.
sequenceDiagram
participant Claude
participant SendToUserTool
participant ToolOutput
participant Timeline
Claude->>SendToUserTool: Submit a complete mid-turn message
SendToUserTool->>ToolOutput: Return sentMessage
ToolOutput->>Timeline: Provide compacted sent-message text
Timeline->>Timeline: Derive and render a sent-message entry
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 261f2
The send_to_user tool and its timeline rendering look sound in the inspected paths. Code Mode execute results are now accepted, and sent messages are no longer deferred behind the work fold. The remaining merge item stated in the PR is the full-suite eval run for each model.
Pre-merge checks: 4
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Title check
The title names the primary change: Claude can show mid-turn text to the user in full, which matches the send_to_user tool and related rendering changes. It uses a conventional commit prefix with a pl…
Description check
The description follows the repository template. It has a Problem section that explains the Claude 5.1+ progress-update behavior and the missing text. It has a Change section that describes the send_t…
Linked Issues check
Issue #32877 requires that text the Claude model writes mid-turn, before a tool call such as AskUserQuestion, appears in full in the chat. The PR adds a path that does not depend on the thinking-block…
Out of Scope Changes check
All changed areas connect to the send_to_user feature that implements #32877. Server: the tool, handler, toolkit layer registration (McpHttpServer.ts), read-only allowlist entry, Claude system append,…
Full details: Title check
Explanation
The title names the primary change: Claude can show mid-turn text to the user in full, which matches the send_to_user tool and related rendering changes. It uses a conventional commit prefix with a plain-language description. The title matches the linked objectives and the changeset.
Full details: Description check
Explanation
The description follows the repository template. It has a Problem section that explains the Claude 5.1+ progress-update behavior and the missing text. It has a Change section that describes the send_to_user tool, prompt instruction, and web/mobile rendering. It links issue #32877 in the Scope area and explains the bug. The Verification section lists eval tables, screenshots, focused tests, and the check run, and it states what remains unverified (full-suite eval run, thread-find and t3_thread_read gaps). It names the model and harness used. The Scope section gives the issue link but does not explicitly say why a bug fix is in scope beyond that link, which is adequate.
Full details: Linked Issues check
Explanation
Issue #32877 requires that text the Claude model writes mid-turn, before a tool call such as AskUserQuestion, appears in full in the chat. The PR adds a path that does not depend on the thinking-block summary. The send_to_user MCP tool (packages/server/src/mcp/toolkits/message/tools.ts and handlers.ts) returns the full Markdown as sentMessage. packages/shared/src/toolOutput.ts keeps sentMessage up to SEND_TO_USER_MAX_LENGTH (4,000 characters) and extracts it with sentMessageFromToolItem. The web timeline (session-logic.ts, MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, TimelineAssistantRows.tsx) and mobile feed (threadActivity.ts, ThreadFeed.tsx) render the message in place, and it stays visible through the turn fold. ClaudeAdapterV2.ts instructs Claude 5.1+ to use the tool for mid-turn text that must be read in full. The incremental changes since the previous review extend this path to long turns (ProjectionStore.ts keeps send_to_user payloads inline) and to OpenCode execute items (toolOutput.ts). These support the same requirement. Automated tests cover the fold case, the compaction limit, the read-only allowlist, always-load, and the ProjectionStore bounded-history case. Residual limit: the model must choose to call the tool, so compliance depends on model behavior. The four eval cases measure this, and the full-suite eval run is still owed. The issue text accepts a different path to the full text as a fix, so this design meets the expected outcome.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
Explanation
All changed areas connect to the send_to_user feature that implements #32877. Server: the tool, handler, toolkit layer registration (McpHttpServer.ts), read-only allowlist entry, Claude system append, and the ProjectionStore inline-output predicate for long turns. Shared: the tool name, length limit, sentMessage compaction, OpenCode execute extraction, and summary action label (t3McpToolPresentation.ts, t3ToolSummary.ts). Clients: web and mobile rendering of sent-message entries. Budget JSON: byte-budget updates that match the larger system append and tool list. Evals: the mid-turn-messages cases and the run.ts toolkit inclusion. Tests: coverage for each part. No change was found that is unrelated to the linked issue. Thread find and t3_thread_read not covering sent messages is a stated follow-up, not an unrelated change.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts:
- Line 2138: Update the persistentOutput exemption used by the sent-message
handling in MessagesTimeline.logic so completed send_to_user results remain in
the initial history window instead of being deferred. Verify that this also
preserves sent-message visibility in zen mode; do not rely on deferred-work
loading there unless that path is confirmed.
Review comments at @packages/shared/src/toolOutput.ts:
- Line 224: Update sentMessageFromToolItem to accept
OPENCODE_CODE_MODE_TOOL_NAME items as well as items resolving to
SEND_TO_USER_TOOL_NAME, while preserving its existing error-output handling; add
a regression test confirming a nested send_to_user result in an execute item
returns its sentMessage.
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A long turn deferred send_to_user rows past its work fold, so the message
loaded only with that work. OpenCode Code Mode reports the call as one
`execute` item, which the reader ignored. Both now match html_render.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…-desktop
main grew the Claude instructions and the MCP tool list (pingdotgg#36384), so
agentContextBudget.json conflicted. The merge takes main's instruction
sizes (claudeSystemAppendBytes 5930, codexAdditionalContextBytes 7324) and
keeps this branch's 36-byte removal from the tool list: 48566 on main
becomes 48530. AgentContextBudget.test.ts requires an exact match and
passes. DesktopBrowserHost.ts and its test merged without conflicts.
User story: When a maintainer opens this pull request, it merges cleanly with main and its context budget matches the tool list.
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Sync 1113d: 76 upstream commits to ab9e6a2. Conflicts in Orchestrator.ts
(upstream pingdotgg#36360 continuation locks ported into the fork settle-cascade
wrapper) and ClaudeAdapterV2.ts and its test (pingdotgg#36384 send_to_user beside the
fork read-only session tools; pingdotgg#36339 monitor wake entry beside the fork
taskId-tagged reports) resolved additively. No fork feature dropped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #32877
Problem
On Claude 5.1+ (Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Fable), text the model writes before a tool call comes back as a progress-update
thinkingblock. The API returns only a summary of that block, under everydisplayvalue (progress updates table). A draft written right before a question card reached the user as a one-line paraphrase, so they answered questions about text they never saw. T3 can't recover that text, because it is never sent to us.Fix
This follows Anthropic's guidance for verbatim mid-turn content (Opus 5.5 prompting guide): give the model a simple tool for sending the user a message, declared from the first request.
send_to_userMCP tool. It returns its Markdown assentMessage, which survives the wire compaction the wayhtml_render's reference does. It is markedanthropic/alwaysLoad, so Claude Code lists it from turn 1 instead of deferring it behind ToolSearch. It is read-only, so it works in plan mode and read-only sandboxes.send_to_userfor what must be read in full mid-turn, and to put everything else in the final reply.Context budget: Claude's system append grows by 336 B and the MCP tool list by 472 B (
agent-context-increase).Evidence
The question card is open, and the full draft (sent with
send_to_user) is above it. Real Claude Haiku 5.5 turn, dev server:After answering, the turn folds under "Worked for 1m 44s". Both sent messages stay visible:
Evals (
mcp-tool-use, newcases/mid-turn-messages.ndjson, 3–4 samples each):On main, both bad cases fail because the tool doesn't exist. The ablation row shows why the prompt line stays: without it, Sonnet answers and then ends on a bookkeeping note half the time. The paid runs cost about $3.30 in total. A full-suite run per model is still owed before merge.
Tests: the fold case beside the existing
html_renderone insession-logic.test.ts, the wire-compaction limit intoolOutput.test.ts, and updates to the read-only allowlist and always-load checks.vp run check:changedpasses, except for a test typing error it caught, which is now fixed and re-typechecked.Surfaces
t3_thread_readdoesn't return them. To keep find counts consistent, the web row has no find marker. Follow-up.Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude Code harness (T3 Code).
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