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fix(cursor): text generation recovers from bad JSON and missing sandbox#32650

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Summary

Cursor text generation (titles, commits, PRs, branch names) often failed with Cursor SDK returned invalid structured output, or never fell back when the SDK rejected sandboxing from agent.send instead of Agent.create. Unlike Codex/Claude, Cursor has no native output schema, and the runner still offered the full toolset in plan mode, so models returned prose, empty replies, or wrong-shaped JSON.

This disables tools for text-only runs, appends a strict JSON-only instruction, retries once on empty/invalid structured output, and retries without the sandbox when that ConfigurationError comes from create or send. Fixes the Windows/no-cursorsandbox fallback gap from #27702 and covers the schema failures people hit on Cursor models.

Test plan

  • vp test run packages/provider-cursor/src/server/textGeneration.test.ts (17 passed)
  • vp run check:changed
  • Live cursor-agent / composer-2 commit-message prompts: empty and fenced JSON cases observed; empty-output retry and JSON-only suffix target those
  • Regenerate a thread title with Settings → Text generation model set to a Cursor model
  • Generate a commit message from the Git panel with a Cursor text-generation model

Created with Auto in Cursor (T3 Code).

Made with Cursor

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Verdict: Approved at 8fc4b0e

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Cursor text generation now retries malformed or empty responses and recovers when sandbox support fails during a request. Tool-free execution, schema validation, temporary workspaces, and the existing overall timeout keep the recovery narrowly bounded.

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Walkthrough

Cursor text generation now retries unsupported sandbox requests without sandboxing and retries invalid or empty structured output once with a fresh agent. The request timeout covers the retry and decode flow.

Changes: Cursor text generation

Layer / File(s)Summary
Agent configuration and sandbox fallback
packages/provider-cursor/src/server/textGeneration.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/textGeneration.test.ts		Agent options include tools: []. When the SDK reports unsupported sandboxing during a request, generation retries without sandboxing. Tests check fallback when the error occurs during send().
Structured output retry and timeout
packages/provider-cursor/src/server/textGeneration.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/textGeneration.test.ts		Requests include a JSON-only instruction. Invalid or empty structured output triggers one retry with a fresh agent. The timeout covers the retry and decode flow. Tests check validation errors, deadline cancellation, and that unsuccessful SDK runs are not retried.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid
1sequenceDiagram
2 participant runCursorJson
3 participant AgentCreate as Agent.create
4 participant CursorRun
5 participant SchemaDecoder
6 runCursorJson->>AgentCreate: create agent
7 AgentCreate-->>runCursorJson: return agent
8 runCursorJson->>CursorRun: send JSON-only prompt and wait
9 CursorRun-->>runCursorJson: return output
10 runCursorJson->>SchemaDecoder: decode and validate output
11 SchemaDecoder-->>runCursorJson: return validation error
12 SchemaDecoder-->>runCursorJson: return valid structured output
13 runCursorJson->>AgentCreate: create fresh agent for retry

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#27702 — The issue describes a sandbox error from agent.send that bypasses fallback. This change retries without sandboxing when the SDK reports unsupported sandboxing during a request.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, saphid

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Cursor text generation now retries bad structured output and missing sandbox support. No merge-blocking issues remain in the reviewed changes.

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JJulius Marminge5m ago

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the capture step could not show the problem on the base commit, so there is nothing to prove fixed.

Enabled Cursor and selected an account-included Cursor model for text generation on both sides, without a custom sandbox policy. Opened a synthetic thread titled Original title and chose Thread actions → Regenerate title. Both sides changed the title to Add Hello World Greeting. Then staged the same three-line greeting.js addition in separate equivalent repositories and clicked Commit without supplying a message. Both sides generated a message and completed the commit. The reported failure did not reproduce; head success does not establish that recovery ran.

It stays open for a person to finish or close.