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fix(server): only Claude progress updates before a tool call show as text#18923
Problem
#18887 reverted #18364 because it showed Claude 5.1+ reasoning before a tool call as chat text. With that revert, the progress updates Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 write between tool calls render as collapsed Thoughts again (#18355). T3 requests display: "summarized", where Anthropic's progress updates table says a progress update is "not distinguishable from a reasoning block", and the model can skip the update.
Change
A progress update comes back as its own block "separate from any reasoning block at the same point", so the adapter now promotes a thinking block before a tool_use only when it directly follows another non-empty thinking block in the same message. A lone thinking block stays a reasoning item. Progress updates keep rendering as chat text (#18355 stays fixed), and the model's ordinary text blocks are unaffected.
In 144 promoted blocks from real Opus 5.5 threads, the 129 lone blocks read as reasoning ("I should check the SDK directory directly…"), and all 15 second-of-a-pair blocks read as user-facing updates ("So far: Claude is fixed, Grok reasoning shows as thoughts…").
Verification
- Opus 5.5 with #18364 (before #18887): reasoning before a tool call renders as a chat paragraph.
- Opus 5.5 after, on a multi-step task: each lone reasoning block is a collapsed Thought row, and the progress updates between commands render as chat text, including the one Claude sent as a
thinking:1block.
- The existing
ClaudeAdapterV2test covers a reasoning+update pair on Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Opus 5, and Sonnet 4.6, plus a lone block on Opus 5.5 that must stay reasoning, and whitespace-only thinking on either side of the pair, which must not promote. - Replaying the same rule over 23,410 local Claude 5.1+ messages promotes 615 of 14,951 thinking blocks; a 25-block sample of promotions all read as user-facing updates. Throwaway edge-case tests for three thinking blocks, duplicate snapshots, cross-message pairs, redacted thinking, and pre-5.1 models pass. The 4 that still fail also fail on main (item order when one snapshot carries every block, which the SDK doesn't send) or need messages without an id, which the SDK always sets.
- Other providers with the same probe: Grok and Muse store reasoning as Thoughts. Codex stores reasoning summaries correctly in real turns. OpenCode with Claude returns empty reasoning because OpenCode doesn't request summarized thinking. Pi (Anthropic 401) and Cursor (unavailable in the dev environment) are unverified.
- Remaining risk: an update with no reasoning block before it stays a Thought, and two reasoning blocks in a row would promote the second. Neither appeared in the sample.
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused Claude adapter fix that restores progress updates as visible text while preserving ordinary reasoning and existing behavior for other models. The production change is isolated and accompanied by targeted regression coverage, with no schema, default, infrastructure, or static-analysis changes.
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The Claude adapter detects qualifying model versions and tracks thinking snapshots. When a tool-use block follows a second thinking block in the same message, the adapter can emit that thinking text as assistant output. Tests cover model-specific behavior and different block counts.
Changes: Claude thinking projection
Layer / File(s) Summary Model detection and thinking state
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.tsThe adapter detects qualifying model versions and tracks the latest non-empty thinking snapshot, including whether it follows another thinking block in the same message. Snapshot projection and tests
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts,apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.tsWhen a qualifying model has a tool-use block after the second thinking block in the same message, the adapter emits that thinking text as assistant output. Tests cover model-specific projections and different block counts. Priority: ➖ Normal
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Change: Bug fix
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Claude 5.1+ may display a second ordinary reasoning block before a tool call as assistant text instead of as a reasoning item. This is a bounded presentation risk; consider it before merging.
Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cd8e7
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Changed systems: apps/server
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Before / after behavior
- observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts: Replaces the four-model, reasoning-only case with parameterized sequences and expected item types. The cases distinguish the second nonblank block on Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 from Opus 5 and Sonnet 4.6, and include lone and blank-block inputs.
- observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts: Builds the thinking snapshots from the test’s
textsarray, replacing two fixed snapshots with a variable-length sequence. - observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts: Replaces the combined type-and-text assertion with separate assertions against the expected types and supplied text sequence.
- observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts: Adds model-version detection for Claude 5.1 and later, matching
claude-[a-z]+-<major>[-<minor>]and returning true for major versions above 5 or version 5 with minor at least 1; non-matching models return false.
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Check name Status Explanation Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the Claude progress-update behavior being fixed and follows a concise conventional commit format. Description check Passed The description clearly explains the problem, implementation, scope, verification results, observed limitations, and remaining risks. It does not include a dedicated Scope and approval section or expl…
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| 8 | @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts: |
| 9 | - Around line 6881-6885: Remove the adjacency-based promotion of summarized |
| 10 | thinking to an assistant message in the ClaudeAdapterV2 reasoning flow. Do not |
| 11 | infer progress updates from consecutive thinking blocks or model version; keep |
| 12 | summarized blocks as reasoning unless the response provides a trustworthy |
| 13 | progress-update discriminator. |
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7527b39Open thread| … | … | @@ -6847,7 +6865,24 @@ export const makeClaudeAdapterV2 = Effect.fn("makeClaudeAdapterV2")(function* ( | |
| 6882 | + | }); | |
| 6883 | + | } | |
| 6884 | + | continue; | |
| 6885 | + | } | |
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Do not promote summarized thinking by adjacency.
Summarized responses do not identify whether a thinking block is ordinary reasoning or a progress update. A second consecutive block can therefore be ordinary reasoning. The current check can publish that block as an assistant_message. Keep these blocks as reasoning until the response provides a trustworthy progress-update discriminator.
Suggested fix
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| 1 | -// Claude 5.1 and later return the text written ahead of a tool call as a |
| 2 | -// thinking block, at most one per call, instead of a text block. Summarized |
| 3 | -// display makes it look like reasoning, so only the second of two thinking |
| 4 | -// blocks right before a tool call is treated as that text. |
| 5 | -function claudeWritesUpdatesAsThinking(model: string): boolean { |
| 6 | - const match = /claude-[a-z]+-(\d+)(?:-(\d{1,2}))?(?!\d)/u.exec(model); |
| 7 | - if (match === null) return false; |
| 8 | - const major = Number(match[1]); |
| 9 | - return major > 5 || (major === 5 && Number(match[2] ?? 0) >= 1); |
| 10 | -} |
| 11 | - |
| 12 | ... |
| 13 | - // The latest snapshot block, when it was non-empty thinking. |
| 14 | - lastThinking: { |
| 15 | - readonly messageId: string; |
| 16 | - readonly itemId: string; |
| 17 | - readonly text: string; |
| 18 | - readonly followsThinking: boolean; |
| 19 | - } | null; |
| 20 | ... |
| 21 | - const update = context.reasoning.lastThinking; |
| 22 | - context.reasoning.lastThinking = null; |
| 23 | - if ( |
| 24 | - block.type === "tool_use" && |
| 25 | - update?.messageId === message.message.id && |
| 26 | - update.followsThinking && |
| 27 | - claudeWritesUpdatesAsThinking(message.message.model) |
| 28 | - ) { |
| 29 | - // Same item ID, so the update replaces the Thought in place. |
| 30 | - yield* emitAssistantTextArtifacts({ |
| 31 | - context, |
| 32 | - nativeItemId: update.itemId, |
| 33 | - text: update.text, |
| 34 | - }); |
| 35 | - } |
| 36 | ... |
| 37 | - const previous = context.reasoning.lastThinking; |
| 38 | - context.reasoning.lastThinking = finalText |
| 39 | - ? { |
| 40 | - messageId: message.message.id, |
| 41 | - itemId, |
| 42 | - text: finalText, |
| 43 | - followsThinking: previous?.messageId === message.message.id, |
| 44 | - } |
| 45 | - : null; |
| 46 | ... |
| 47 | - lastThinking: null, |
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| 8 | Remove the adjacency-based promotion of summarized thinking to an assistant |
| 9 | message in the ClaudeAdapterV2 reasoning flow. Do not infer progress updates |
| 10 | from consecutive thinking blocks or model version; keep summarized blocks as |
| 11 | reasoning unless the response provides a trustworthy progress-update |
| 12 | discriminator. |
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria
Keeping this. Keeping every summarized block as reasoning is what #18887 shipped, and it renders Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 progress updates as collapsed Thoughts (#18355). The maintainer explicitly asked for those updates to show as text.
There is no discriminator under display: "summarized". The only alternative is display: "updates", which blanks reasoning entirely. Anthropic documents an update as its own block, "separate from any reasoning block at the same point", placed directly before the tool call. In 144 real Opus 5.5 blocks, all 15 that followed another thinking block were updates, and the 129 lone blocks were reasoning. The PR body lists the remaining false-negative and false-positive cases.
@maria-rcks Thanks for the clarification. I withdraw the recommendation to remove promotion.
Keeping every summarized block as reasoning would restore the behavior this PR is meant to fix. The same-message adjacency check is an intentional heuristic, supported by your sample, not a guaranteed discriminator. The documented false-positive and false-negative cases do not justify reverting that behavior.
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| 2 | Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 18923 |
| 3 | File: apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:6881-6885 |
| 4 | Timestamp: 2026-10-13T04:33:33.309Z |
| 5 | Learning: In apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, progress updates for Claude 5.1+ must remain visible as assistant text while ordinary reasoning remains available. Under display: "summarized", no explicit progress-update discriminator is available. The adapter intentionally uses consecutive non-empty thinking blocks in the same message directly before a tool call as a promotion heuristic. Do not recommend retaining all summarized thinking as reasoning solely because the heuristic is imperfect; that defeats the requested progress-update behavior. |
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A data point from two Opus 5.5 threads on nightly 20261013.3066, which has #18887 but not this PR. In both, the model wrote content for the user right before AskUserQuestion. The session JSONL holds two thinking blocks and then the tool_use, with no text block, so this PR would promote the second block in both cases.
What it can't fix: under summarized the promoted block is a summary. In one thread the model wrote a grouped list of about 90 skills and asked "Which groups go into agent-kit?". The stored block is one sentence: "I've grouped all 94 skills into five categories...". In the other it drafted a PR reply and asked "Post the reply shown above?". The block is a two-sentence summary of the draft. The user answered both questions without seeing the content.
The full text can't be recovered from the stream, so two things would help on top of this PR:
- #15633, which renders the option
preview. In the second thread the model first put the draft inpreview, which the adapter drops. - A line in the system prompt T3 adds for Claude, saying that text written right before a tool call may only show as a summary, so a question has to carry its own context.
Locally I worked around it with a PreToolUse hook on AskUserQuestion that rejects a preview field or a question that points "above" or "below".