fix(server): t3_thread_read results fit MCP clients' output limit#33455

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Problem

t3_thread_read has no limit on the total size of a result. #29268 made the defaults small (10 items × 500 chars), but limit × maxCharsPerItem only caps item text. Each item also carries 500+ chars of ids and metadata, and the schema accepts up to 100 × 50,000. So on a long thread, the explicit reads agents make (limit: 100 with a small maxCharsPerItem, which the issue saw in 133 of 137 rejected calls) still go over Claude Code's MCP output limit (25k tokens by default, about 50k chars of this JSON). Claude Code then rejects the result and spills it to a file. Even limit: 100, maxCharsPerItem: 1 goes over the limit on main.

Change

OrchestratorMcpService.readThread now has a total budget for the encoded result: 30,000 UTF-8 bytes, well under the ~50k chars Claude Code accepts. Bytes rather than chars keep CJK-heavy pages, which run about one token per char, under the token limit.
- Items are added in order until the next one would go over the budget. hasMore is then true and nextPosition is the last item returned, so afterPosition=nextPosition still reaches every item exactly once.
- A page always returns at least one item. If the first item alone is too big, its text is cut further with the existing textTruncated/nextTextOffset, and an oversized title is cut too.
- Items always keep at least half the budget, so a very large thread envelope cannot shrink each continuation read to a single character. This happens in practice: on a thread with ~60 open linked PRs, the first page's thread.pullRequests alone is 13.7k chars.
Child-result delivery acknowledgement only counts text that was actually returned. This replaces #29268's textOffset/maxChars recomputation with the returned item's textTruncated:
- An item that was dropped or cut by the budget does not acknowledge.
- An itemId + textOffset read that returns the final chunk of the result acknowledges.
- A read past the end, which returns no text, does not acknowledge.

Defaults, page direction (oldest first), and the input and result schemas are unchanged.

Scope

Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#33417

This covers the total-size part of the issue (the reporter's point 1). #29268 already covered the defaults. Page direction is unchanged.

Internal callers that ask for large pages (RemoteDelegation.lastReply, the CLI's readTimeline) already loop on hasMore and nextTextOffset, so they stay correct and just take more round trips on long threads.

Verification

vp test run apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.activity.test.ts apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts: 11 pass.
- readThread keeps an activity page within an MCP client's output limit and pages the rest covers the budget, paging across every position, reassembling a long text through itemId/textOffset, a 60k-char title, and the envelope floor.
- reports $label child results: the long case (a 46.5k-char result) replaces #29268's paginated case and goes through the same textOffset walk. The walk's continuation reads ask for maxCharsPerItem: 50_000, so the budget, not maxCharsPerItem, cuts the middle chunk. The task stays claimed before every continuation and after a read past the end, and becomes acknowledged on the final chunk.
vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (4 files) pass.

Runtime measurement on main 82839de0942 (this branch rebased onto it). Setup: a server with serve --base-dir <worktree>/.t3, seeded by vp run migrate-dev-db from real data, reading a real 2,223-item Claude thread over /mcp with acp-mcp-call. The only difference between the two columns is OrchestratorMcpService.ts. Sizes are structuredContent chars.

Call	main	this branch
defaults (messages, 10 × 500)	23,803 (10 items)	23,803 (10 items)
`view: activity`	25,344 (10)	25,344 (10)
activity, `limit: 100`, `maxCharsPerItem: 1500`	164,341 (100)	31,340 (11, `hasMore`)
activity, `limit: 100`, `maxCharsPerItem: 1`	64,289 (100)	31,676 (31, `hasMore`)
messages, `limit: 50`, `maxCharsPerItem: 20000`	65,240 (50)	31,336 (17, `hasMore`)
activity, `limit: 100`, `maxCharsPerItem: 20000`	551,543 (100)	22,409 (4, `hasMore`)

Walking afterPosition=nextPosition:

Walk	main	this branch
activity 100 × 1500	23 pages, 22 over 50k, largest 164,341	122 pages, 0 over 50k, largest 31,340
messages 100 × 20000	5 pages, 4 over 50k, largest 99,784	15 pages, 0 over 50k, largest 31,336

Both walks returned every position once, in order, on both builds.

Of the 23.8k on the default first page, 13.7k is thread.pullRequests. That is a separate issue and not changed here.

Not checked: a live Claude Code client against the server. The fit is computed against Claude Code's documented 25k-token default, not observed.

AI-assisted (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code); verified with the tests and tools listed above.

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Walkthrough

Thread reads now use a UTF-8 byte budget for serialized responses. The service can truncate item text or titles and updates continuation fields from returned items. Terminal-task acknowledgment checks returned content. Tests cover response limits, text paging, and long results.

Changes: Thread-read output and delivery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Response-size budgeting and continuation `apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts`, `apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.activity.test.ts`	Thread reads budget serialized responses to 30,000 bytes. The service truncates oversized text or titles when required and derives continuation from returned items. Activity tests cover response limits, position paging, text reconstruction, and large titles.
Terminal-result acknowledgment across pages `apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts`, `apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpToolkit.integration.test.ts`	Terminal-result matching checks returned items and accepts only complete, untruncated text. Reads past the text end skip acknowledgment. Integration tests cover long-result reads and continuation.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#27273: Both changes affect text-page boundaries and truncation behavior in readThread.
pingdotgg/t3code#29268: Both changes affect readThread size limits and terminal delegated-task acknowledgment.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, marcodotio

Merge Risk: External image Low · up to 1b37a

The thread-read size budget and result-acknowledgement behavior look sound. The tests have two gaps that could let regressions through: they accept pages up to 50,000 bytes, and they do not check acknowledgement after a byte-truncated chunk. These can be tightened before or after merge.

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Title check	Passed	The title names the core change: t3_thread_read results are made to fit within the MCP client output limit. The change adds a 30,000-byte total budget to readThread, which matches the title. The title…
Description check	Passed	The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each contains specific content. The Problem section explains the oversized result and the…
Linked Issues check	Passed	The only directly linked issue, `#33417`, is closed and marked as historical context only. Its request for a newest-page default, backward paging (beforePosition/earlierPosition), lower defaults, and pa…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The whole-PR changes against the merge base relate to the stated total-size scope. OrchestratorMcpService.ts adds the byte budget, the item and title truncation rules, the envelope floor, and the hasM…

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The title names the core change: t3_thread_read results are made to fit within the MCP client output limit. The change adds a 30,000-byte total budget to readThread, which matches the title. The title uses the conventional commit format and is short and specific. The 'fix' type fits the bug-fix scope described in the objectives.

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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each contains specific content. The Problem section explains the oversized result and the Claude Code output limit with reproduction data. The Change section lists the budget, paging, and acknowledgement behavior. The Scope section links issue #33417 and explains the partial coverage. The Verification section lists the commands run, test names, observed results, and an explicit list of what was not checked. The description also states an AI-assisted model, but the template asks for the model and harness only when an agent was used, and it does not say which model ran the checks beyond the tools in the text. This is a minor gap that does not affect the check.

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The only directly linked issue, #33417, is closed and marked as historical context only. Its request for a newest-page default, backward paging (beforePosition/earlierPosition), lower defaults, and paging guidance is not an objective of this PR. No active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply. The PR states that it covers only the total-size part of #33417 (the reporter's point 1). The change summary shows the readThread total-size budget (30,000 UTF-8 bytes, item cutting, title cutting, at-least-one-item rule, and hasMore/nextPosition handling) in OrchestratorMcpService.ts. The defaults and oldest-first direction stay unchanged, which matches the stated scope. Evidence comes from the whole-PR summaries and PR description. No repository inspection was made for this check.

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The whole-PR changes against the merge base relate to the stated total-size scope. OrchestratorMcpService.ts adds the byte budget, the item and title truncation rules, the envelope floor, and the hasMore/nextPosition logic. The same file changes child-result acknowledgement so that it counts only returned text (dropped or budget-cut items and reads past the end do not acknowledge). The PR explains that the budget can cut item text, so this change is needed. The activity test file adds coverage for the output limit, paging, emoji text reassembly, and large-title behavior. The integration test file replaces the 'paginated' case with a long-result case and adjusts limits for continuation reads. These are supporting tests for the same behavior. No unrelated change was identified. Limits: the merge-base commit reported in this review metadata (a32cdde0) differs from the base cited in the previous review (cc927400). This assessment relies on the supplied summaries and did not inspect the diff directly.

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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	✅

Other scenarios

All 64 scenario measurements match main.

All 64 scenario measurements

Provider	Scenario	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	`short turn resume`	`WebSocket decoded`	10.5 KiB	10.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	12.7 KiB	✅
Codex	`short turn resume`	`WebSocket messages`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	`long turn running, cold open`	`HTTP decoded`	281.7 KiB	281.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	302.7 KiB	✅
Codex	`long turn running, cold open`	`rows`	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	`long turn running, history page`	`HTTP decoded`	92.4 KiB	92.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	107.4 KiB	✅
Codex	`long turn running, history page`	`rows`	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	`long turn finished, cold open`	`HTTP decoded`	381.5 KiB	381.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Codex	`long turn finished, cold open`	`rows`	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Codex	`long turn finished, socket cold open`	`WebSocket decoded`	381.6 KiB	381.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Codex	`long turn finished, socket cold open`	`WebSocket messages`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	`long turn finished, socket cold open`	`rows`	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Codex	`long turn finished, work page`	`HTTP decoded`	186.2 KiB	186.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	200.2 KiB	✅
Codex	`long turn finished, work page`	`rows`	150	150	0 (0.0%)	150	✅
Codex	`idle thread resume`	`WebSocket decoded`	65 B	65 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Codex	`idle thread resume`	`WebSocket messages`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Codex	`fleet shell snapshot`	`HTTP decoded`	42.4 KiB	42.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Codex	`fleet shell snapshot`	`rows`	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Codex	`fleet shell subscribe`	`WebSocket decoded`	65 B	65 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Codex	`fleet shell subscribe`	`WebSocket messages`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Codex	`fleet shell resume check`	`HTTP decoded`	18 B	18 B	0 B (0.0%)	100 B	✅
Codex	`fleet shell resume check`	`rows`	0	0	0	0	✅
Codex	`stale shell reload`	`HTTP decoded`	42.4 KiB	42.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Codex	`stale shell reload`	`rows`	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Codex	`stale shell resume`	`WebSocket decoded`	140 B	140 B	0 B (0.0%)	400 B	✅
Codex	`stale shell resume`	`WebSocket messages`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	`stale todo list cold open`	`HTTP decoded`	72.4 KiB	72.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	83.0 KiB	✅
Codex	`stale todo list cold open`	`rows`	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	`stale todo list cold open`	`nodes`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Codex	`stale todo list cold open`	`subagents`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Codex	`stale todo list cold open`	`plans`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	`stale todo list cold open`	`providerTurns`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	`stale todo list cold open`	`checkpoints`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	`short turn resume`	`WebSocket decoded`	10.6 KiB	10.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	12.7 KiB	✅
Claude	`short turn resume`	`WebSocket messages`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	`long turn running, cold open`	`HTTP decoded`	283.3 KiB	283.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	302.7 KiB	✅
Claude	`long turn running, cold open`	`rows`	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	`long turn running, history page`	`HTTP decoded`	93.4 KiB	93.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	107.4 KiB	✅
Claude	`long turn running, history page`	`rows`	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	`long turn finished, cold open`	`HTTP decoded`	384.2 KiB	384.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Claude	`long turn finished, cold open`	`rows`	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Claude	`long turn finished, socket cold open`	`WebSocket decoded`	384.3 KiB	384.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Claude	`long turn finished, socket cold open`	`WebSocket messages`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	`long turn finished, socket cold open`	`rows`	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Claude	`long turn finished, work page`	`HTTP decoded`	188.1 KiB	188.1 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	200.2 KiB	✅
Claude	`long turn finished, work page`	`rows`	150	150	0 (0.0%)	150	✅
Claude	`idle thread resume`	`WebSocket decoded`	66 B	66 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Claude	`idle thread resume`	`WebSocket messages`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Claude	`fleet shell snapshot`	`HTTP decoded`	43.0 KiB	43.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Claude	`fleet shell snapshot`	`rows`	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Claude	`fleet shell subscribe`	`WebSocket decoded`	66 B	66 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Claude	`fleet shell subscribe`	`WebSocket messages`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Claude	`fleet shell resume check`	`HTTP decoded`	18 B	18 B	0 B (0.0%)	100 B	✅
Claude	`fleet shell resume check`	`rows`	0	0	0	0	✅
Claude	`stale shell reload`	`HTTP decoded`	43.0 KiB	43.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Claude	`stale shell reload`	`rows`	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Claude	`stale shell resume`	`WebSocket decoded`	140 B	140 B	0 B (0.0%)	400 B	✅
Claude	`stale shell resume`	`WebSocket messages`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	`stale todo list cold open`	`HTTP decoded`	73.4 KiB	73.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	83.0 KiB	✅
Claude	`stale todo list cold open`	`rows`	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	`stale todo list cold open`	`nodes`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Claude	`stale todo list cold open`	`subagents`	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Claude	`stale todo list cold open`	`plans`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	`stale todo list cold open`	`providerTurns`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	`stale todo list cold open`	`checkpoints`	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅

Baseline: a32cdde · PR result: 1b37ad3 · 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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Evidence

Both sides: Linux, isolated real dev servers, fresh synthetic ACP data, actual Claude Code MCP client, 1920×1080 dark terminal. Videos are live X11 captures, not log playback. Final stills matched captures taken 500 ms apart.

Steps: seed matching long threads; read activity with defaults and with limit:100,maxCharsPerItem:1500; make the latter call through Claude Code; follow default pages' own nextPosition and nextTextOffset without a text-size override; exercise oversized item/thread titles; read a completed delegated child's actual result through its parent's scoped session, including an empty read past the result and every text continuation.

Before	After
d756fed7aa	2a5e57102b
Before: oversized reads and unacknowledged child result	After: bounded pages and acknowledged final child chunk
Live reproduction	Live reproduction
Default: 1,047,983 bytes, 45 items. Documented: 206,682 bytes. Claude Code saves the result to a file because it exceeds its output limit.	Default: 2,346 bytes, 2 items, hasMore. Documented: 27,296 bytes, 7 items, hasMore. Claude Code receives the response inline.
Text continuation at its own offset 20,000 returns 61,925 bytes.	Following default pagination reaches offset 9,358; its continuation returns 29,999 bytes. All 45 items and the 65,536-character assistant text reconstruct with identical hashes on both sides.
Oversized item title: 30,000 characters; response 117,095 bytes.	Title shortened to 4,618 characters; response 29,997 bytes, with useful text and a working text continuation.
Child-result recording: delivery remains claimed after the final positive-offset chunk.	Child-result recording: empty and partial result reads remain claimed; the final positive-offset chunk changes delivery to acknowledged.

The oversized-envelope floor is exercised too: a 20,000-character thread title produces a 76,249-byte head response while preserving a useful 4,852-character text chunk. This is not a hard 30 KB cap when the envelope itself is oversized.

Complete seed, drivers, capture scripts, metrics, and sanitized transcripts. No tests were used as evidence.

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Actual Claude Code overflow behavior for the intentionally oversized thread-title envelope was not tested; that case was exercised through the real MCP endpoint and still exceeds 30 KB by design.

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fix(server): t3_thread_read results fit MCP clients' output limitb99cd64

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Tighten the normal-page byte assertions to the 30,000-byte budget.
Lines 481 and 500 accept 50,000 bytes, but THREAD_READ_RESULT_MAX_BYTES is 30,000. In these fixtures the thread title is normal, so the item budget should keep each page within 30,000 bytes. As written, a regression that lets a normal page grow past 30,000 bytes would still pass. Use 30,000 in both assertions. Keep the oversized-title case separate, because an oversized envelope can exceed the budget and that case has no byte assertion.

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1 - // Claude Code rejects MCP results over 25k tokens; CJK text is about a token per char.
2 - expect(Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(result))).toBeLessThanOrEqual(50_000);
3 + // Claude Code rejects MCP results over 25k tokens; CJK text is about a token per char.
4 + expect(Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(result))).toBeLessThanOrEqual(30_000);
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1 - expect(Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(result))).toBeLessThanOrEqual(50_000);
2 + expect(Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(result))).toBeLessThanOrEqual(30_000);

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…	…	@@ -3093,6 +3152,27 @@ const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
	3164	+	.toSorted((left, right) => right.ordinal - left.ordinal)
	3165	+	.slice(0, input.runLimit ?? DEFAULT_THREAD_RUN_LIMIT)
	3166	+	.map((run) => threadRun(target, run));
	3167	+	const items = timelineItemsWithinBudget(

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Use returned items to select acknowledgment work.

If a 100-row activity page contains distinct child runs but the budget returns only its first item, returnedRunIds still contains all 100 runs from page. The task loop can then load results for 99 omitted items, even though none can match items. Derive the task run IDs from the budgeted items to avoid repeated unnecessary reads on subsequent pages. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Cover acknowledgement after a budget-truncated continuation chunk.
The long-result case uses ASCII text. Its continuation chunks stay below the 30,000-byte budget, so the test never reaches the budget-truncated path. The test does not check that delivery stays claimed after a budget-truncated chunk and becomes acknowledged only after the final chunk.
Add a multibyte result case whose remaining text is under 20,000 characters but exceeds the 30,000-byte budget when encoded in UTF-8. Assert that the delivery state stays claimed after the budget-truncated chunk and becomes acknowledged after the final chunk. Add this as a row or assertion in the existing matrix rather than a new it block.

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Evidence

Run identical synthetic replay data through each real server, read forward and backward with thread-scoped MCP credentials, follow item text continuations, observe real Claude Code delivery, exercise a large thread envelope, then read actual delegated results through their final chunk and past the end.

Before	After
a32cdde062	1b37ad3fe3
Before: Claude Code saves oversized output to a file	After: bounded output stays inline
Before: oversized backward and command reads	After: bounded backward reads, command continuation and envelope exception
Before: delegated result delivered in one oversized chunk	After: acknowledgement waits for the final chunk; empty past-end read does not acknowledge
Before recording	After recording

Claude Code offloaded the base tool-item response (241,921 UTF-8 bytes); head returned 29,997 bytes inline and shortened the preserved title from 60,006 to 4,585 characters. The title case uses a generic ACP tool because command titles are normalized by the adapter. Agent-scoped cursorless and explicit backward reads both exercised newestFirst and earlierPosition. Command output changed from one 74,013-byte response to three bounded chunks with identical reconstructed text. All forward timeline positions and reconstructed assistant text also matched. The oversized-envelope exception remained oversized while returning 4,784 useful text characters on head. For a delegated result, head retained claimed delivery after the first truncated chunk and changed to acknowledged only after the final RESULT-END chunk. A separate empty past-end read left delivery claimed.

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