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Regression coverage for the invocation-argument refund that landed in #4543. No behaviour change: the
only src edit is a comment, and it corrects a claim rather than adding one.

  • A just-over-cap argument must come back byte-exact. ~2,117 bytes against the 2,048-byte cap, so
    the cap clips about 70 bytes. The existing fixture is 4,600 bytes, where thousands of spare bytes
    surround the decision and an off-by-one in the cost arithmetic or in the newline-anchored search
    cannot show.
  • No result may be evicted to pay for a wider invocation line, and under the fixture's uniform
    per-round costs the restored set must be the newest contiguous suffix. The second half is a
    direction check: flipping the walk to oldest-first makes it a prefix and turns the test red. The
    comment states that contiguity is not guaranteed under mixed argument sizes, because the pass
    skips an unaffordable line with continue rather than break — so a cheaper older line
    may legitimately be filled in after a dearer newer one was passed over.
  • A checkpoint-covered call must keep its argument tail in the replayed suffix. Drop
    knownCallsOffset from the pass's callBefore bound and only this case notices, because
    that term is identically zero on the full-replay path.
  • A multi-byte argument must survive the round trip intact, with U+FFFD asserted absent so a
    failure names itself instead of only reporting unequal strings.

The outputElided skip is load bearing, and finding that out took two tries

This is the part worth a reviewer's attention. A sweep of single-result fixtures concluded the guard
was dead code: elision appeared to always cut the invocation line too, leaving nothing for the pass to
widen, so the earlier clipped-line lookup would always decline the root first. An adversarial
counter-read found the configuration that sweep could not reach, and the conclusion was wrong.

Truncation on its own genuinely cannot pay for a restoration — it undershoots its own budget by about
28 bytes. Initiator recovery can. With a ~519.7 KiB system prompt the history budget is roughly
4.6 KiB, the equal-share pass cuts two trailing results to ~2.3 KiB each — far enough to lose
output: but not the clipped invocation line — and recovery then drops the older elided sibling
so the user turn fits. Those freed bytes become spare, and the surviving elided root holds a clipped
line the pass could now afford. Removing the outputElided term puts the full 3,000-byte
argument into a root that shows the model no output at all.

That window is only about 24 bytes wide, so it moves whenever an envelope header changes length:
pinning one literal system size made the test pass with a two-character call id and fail with a
twelve-character one. The test therefore searches the range for the window and fails loudly if no size
produces one, which is the signal that the route closed and the guard needs re-examining.

The three claims above that name a specific mutation were each verified by reverting that mutation and
watching the test go red, then green.

The two 600 KiB cap tests are byte-identical and still green. structure/providers/cursor.md
records what the guard actually depends on; an earlier draft of both it and the code comment called
the guard defensive, which this PR replaces. No new test file, so
scripts/test-layout/layout.json and tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json need no
entries.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Five regressions for the invocation refund landed in #4543.

- A just-over-cap argument (~2,117 bytes against the 2,048 cap) must come back
  byte-exact. The existing fixture is 4,600 bytes, where thousands of spare bytes
  surround the decision and an off-by-one in the cost arithmetic or in the
  newline-anchored search cannot show.
- No result may be evicted to pay for a wider invocation line, and under the
  fixture's uniform per-round costs the restored set must be the newest
  contiguous suffix. That second claim is a direction check: flipping the walk to
  oldest-first makes it a prefix and turns this red. The comment says so, and
  says plainly that contiguity is not guaranteed under mixed sizes, because the
  pass skips an unaffordable line with continue rather than break.
- A checkpoint-covered call must keep its argument tail in the replayed suffix.
  Drop knownCallsOffset from the pass's callBefore bound and only this case
  notices, since that term is identically zero on the full-replay path.
- A multi-byte argument must survive intact, with U+FFFD asserted absent so a
  failure names itself rather than only showing unequal strings.
- The outputElided skip is load bearing, and finding that out took two tries. A
  sweep of single-result fixtures said the guard was dead code — elision appeared
  to always cut the invocation line too — and an adversarial counter-read found
  the configuration that sweep could not reach. Truncation alone cannot pay for a
  restoration: it undershoots its own budget by about 28 bytes. Initiator
  recovery can. With a ~519.7 KiB system prompt the equal-share pass cuts two
  trailing results to ~2.3 KiB, losing "output:" but keeping the clipped
  invocation line, and recovery then drops the older elided sibling to fit the
  user turn; those freed bytes become spare. The test searches that ~24-byte
  window rather than pinning a literal size, because pinning one made it pass on
  a two-character call id and fail on a twelve-character one, and it fails loudly
  if the window disappears.

Each of the last three was verified by mutation. The two 600 KiB cap tests are
byte-identical. The only src change is the comment recording what the guard
actually depends on, and structure/providers/cursor.md records it too — the
earlier draft of both called the guard defensive, which was wrong.
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The pull request adds Cursor replay-budget documentation and six regression tests. The tests cover argument restoration, contiguous suffix behavior, checkpoint offsets, UTF-8 preservation, and the outputElided guard. No production logic changes.

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Restoration coverage and documentation
src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts, structure/providers/cursor.md, tests/providers/cursor/cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts
The documentation explains when the elision-skip path is reachable and why an elided root is not widened. The tests cover 2100-byte arguments, contiguous clipped-to-restored suffixes, checkpoint replay offsets, Korean UTF-8 arguments, and refusal to widen an elided root.

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The added regression coverage does not yet protect UTF-8-safe clipping under sustained budget pressure. Add the clipped-state assertion to prevent this narrow regression from escaping.

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이 PR은 방금 dev에 들어간 #4543(Cursor 봉투에서 잘린 invocation 인자를 spare 바이트로 되돌려주는 2차 패스)이 실제로 지키는 약속을 테스트로 못 박는 작업이다. 동작 코드는 거의 안 바꾸고, src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.tsrestoreClippedInvocationArguments 주석과 structure/providers/cursor.md에 "outputElided 스킵이 방어용이 아니라 진짜로 필요한 가드"라는 설명을 고치고, tests/providers/cursor/cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts에 회귀 케이스 다섯 개를 더한다.

지금 dev HEAD는 866367a6f(2.55.0 open, #4551)이고, 그 직전에 #4543이 이미 들어와 있다. 그래서 이 PR의 점수는 "새 기능"이 아니라 "방금 심은 봉투 환불 로직이 내일도 같은 말을 하게 만드는 핀"으로 매긴다. 사용자 화면은 안 바뀌지만, #4516처럼 모델이 방금 쓴 write_file 인자 꼬리를 못 보는 종류의 재발을 막는 잠금장치라서 우선순위는 중간 위다.

테스트가 말하는 다섯 가지는 이렇게 읽으면 된다. (1) 2,048바이트 캡을 겨우 넘는(~2,117바이트) 인자는 spare가 있을 때 바이트 단위로 그대로 돌아와야 한다. 기존 4,600바이트 픽스처는 spare가 너무 넉넉해서 off-by-one이 안 보인다. (2) 환불은 다른 결과를 쫓아내면 안 되고, 균일 비용 픽스처에서는 복원 집합이 최신 쪽 연속 접미사가 되어야 한다(방향 검사). 다만 주석이 밝히듯 비용이 섞이면 continue 때문에 비연속도 합법적이다. (3) 체크포인트로 덮인 호출은 knownCallsOffset 없이는 꼬리를 못 찾고, 이 케이스만 그 항이 0이 아니라서 잡는다. (4) 한글처럼 멀티바이트 문자가 캡 경계에 걸리면 U+FFFD가 생기지 않고 통째로 살아야 한다. (5) outputElided 스킵은 죽은 코드가 아니다. truncation만으로는 복원 비용을 못 내지만, initiator recovery가 형제를 떨어뜨리며 spare를 만들면 elided 루트에 잘린 invocation만 남은 좁은(~24바이트) 창이 열린다. 그 창을 시스템 프롬프트 크기로 찾아내고, 가드를 빼면 출력이 없는 루트에 3,000바이트 인자가 들어가는지 mutation으로 확인했다.

현재 devrestoreClippedInvocationArguments는 이미 newest-first, spare-only, outputElided skip, knownCallsOffset + messageIndexcallBefore를 잡는 구조다. 이 PR은 그 네 축을 각각 빨갛게 만들 수 있는 픽스처로 고정하고, structure 문서의 "defensive" 표현을 load-bearing으로 고친다. 레이아웃 JSON 추가는 새 파일이 없어서 필요 없다. Cross-platform CI가 아직 돌아가는 중이고(keyring/hygiene/api 등은 통과, test 샤드·gates·macos는 pending), 로컬 typecheck/product suite는 의도적으로 안 돌렸다고 본문에 적혀 있다.

라인 699 (just-over-cap) - 기존 oversized 픽스처와 역할이 겹쳐 보이지만, 클립 폭을 ~70바이트로 좁혀야 비용 비교(cost > spare vs >=)와 개행 앵커 검색의 off-by-one이 보인다. 이 케이스를 빼면 그 축이 다시 안 보인다.
라인 723 (contiguous boundary) - "절대 연속"이 아니라 균일 비용에서의 방향 검사다. 인자 크기를 섞으면 주석대로 비연속이 합법인데, 나중에 픽스처만 손대면 거짓 실패가 난다. 주석을 꼭 같이 읽어야 한다.
라인 762 (checkpoint-covered) - knownCallsOffset을 빼면 이 케이스만 붉어진다. full-replay 경로에서는 그 항이 항상 0이라서, 이 테스트 없으면 체크포인트 회귀가 조용히 열린다.
라인 786 (multi-byte) - 동등성만으로는 UTF-8 잘림인지 환불 실패인지 구분이 안 되니 U+FFFD 부재를 따로 본다. 캡 경계가 글자 한가운데에 걸리게 700자 "한"을 쓴 선택이 맞다.
라인 815 / probe 519600–519800 - outputElided 창을 리터럴 크기 하나로 고정하지 않고 탐색한다. 봉투 헤더 길이가 바뀌면 창이 이동하니, 실패 시 "가드가 죽었다"가 아니라 "창이 닫혔으니 가드를 다시 재라"는 신호로 읽어야 한다. 다만 헤더 드리프트에 민감한 편이다.
src/adapters/cursor/protobuf-request.ts (~1008–1015) / structure/providers/cursor.md - 주석·문서만 고치고 동작은 그대로다. "defensive" → load-bearing 정정은 #4543 리뷰 때 남았을 수 있는 오해를 직접 고친다.
PR 본문 Verification - 로컬 bun run typecheck / product suite / bun install을 안 돌렸다. 증거는 hosted CI head 9152a7e0bee282048331cd8e0e49f08a0b6d52d9에만 걸린다. structure:check는 통과했다고 한다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • Cross-platform test 샤드·gates·macos가 아직 pending이다. 초록이 뜨기 전에 머지할지, CI만 보고 갈지.
  • 519600–519800 탐색 창이 앞으로 봉투 포맷이 조금만 바뀌어도 붉어질 수 있다. 유지할지, 창을 더 넓히거나 헬퍼로 빼서 "창 소실" 메시지를 더 분명하게 할지.
  • contiguous-suffix 테스트를 "혼합 크기에서도 연속"으로 오해하지 않도록, 나중에 픽스처를 손댈 때 주석·단언을 같이 고칠 책임 소재.

너의 추천

  • 동작 변경 없는 fix(cursor): refund spare envelope bytes to clipped invocation arguments #4543 회귀 핀이다. test 샤드(특히 tests/providers/cursor/)와 gates가 초록이면 dev에 머지해도 된다.
  • CI가 실패하면 먼저 815번대 elided-window 탐색이 창을 못 찾았는지부터 보고, 헤더 길이 드리프트면 범위를 조정하거나 실패 메시지를 보강한 뒤 다시 돌린다.
  • types.ts/config.ts 분할 캠페인과 무관하고, 중복 PR도 아니다. close-don't-rebase 대상 아님.

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Comment on lines +699 to +701
test("a just-over-cap argument is preserved complete", () => {
const args = { contents: "A".repeat(2100) };
const root = resultRoot(encode(writeFileHistory(args), "grok-4.6-high"));

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P2 Badge Exercise the exact spare-budget boundary

This fixture leaves almost the entire 512 KiB envelope unused while widening costs only about 70 bytes, so changing cost > spare to cost >= spare would still restore the invocation and every assertion would pass. Construct a request where the measured spare equals the widening cost before claiming this covers that off-by-one boundary.

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for (let n = 0; n < 60; n++) {
expect(results.some(text => text.includes("OUT_" + n))).toBe(true);
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P2 Badge Match retained output markers exactly

The substring check does not prove that every result survived: for example, if the OUT_1 root is evicted, OUT_10 still satisfies includes("OUT_1"), and removing an older clipped root need not disturb the later transition assertions. Parse the output field or compare delimited markers/root counts so eviction of any individual result makes this regression test fail.

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test("a multi-byte argument survives the round trip intact", () => {
const args = { contents: "한".repeat(700) };
const root = resultRoot(encode(writeFileHistory(args), "grok-4.6-high"));
expect(root).toBeDefined();
expect(root).not.toContain("\uFFFD");

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P2 Badge Keep the clipped Unicode text visible to the assertion

With this otherwise empty envelope, the restoration pass replaces the clipped invocation with the complete argument before the assertions inspect it. If truncateUtf8 were changed to split the Korean character and produce U+FFFD, the restoration lookup would recompute the same malformed clipped line and replace it with full, so this test would still pass; constrain spare so the line remains clipped, or test the truncation result directly.

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The elision skip is load bearing, reached through initiator recovery rather than through truncation
alone: a truncated root undershoots its own budget by far less than a restoration costs, but after
the equal-share pass elides a trailing run, recovery drops an elided sibling to fit the user turn and

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P2 Badge Qualify the truncation-only claim

This is not true for every clipped invocation: when serialized arguments exceed the 2 KiB cap by fewer bytes than truncation leaves unused (for example, by one byte), the roughly 28-byte undershoot can pay for widening an output-elided root without initiator recovery. Qualify this as a property of the tested 3,000-byte fixture, and make the matching source comment equally specific, rather than recording it as the current general contract.

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// envelope is idle and the full argument survives the round trip intact.
test("a multi-byte argument survives the round trip intact", () => {
const args = { contents: "한".repeat(700) };
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Exercise the UTF-8 truncation path before restoration.

This fixture leaves enough spare budget to restore the complete invocation line. A broken truncateUtf8 implementation can insert U+FFFD, produce the same broken clippedLine during lookup, and then replace that line with the full JSON. The current assertions still pass.

Add a budget-pressure fixture where the invocation remains clipped. Assert that the truncation marker exists, U+FFFD does not exist, and the retained prefix ends on a complete "한" character. Keep this test to cover successful full restoration.

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In `@tests/providers/cursor/cursor-tool-result-invocation.test.ts` at line 788,
Add budget pressure to the cursor tool-result fixture around resultRoot and
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that the clipped output contains the truncation marker, contains no U+FFFD
replacement character, and ends its retained prefix on a complete “한” character,
while preserving the existing successful full-restoration coverage.

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Integrating through the maintainer self-integration path in MAINTAINERS.md and recording that choice here.

Exact-head evidence: Cross-platform CI run 34779412583 completed success at the current head. Local product suite, typecheck, build and install NOT RUN; a fresh lane worktree has no node_modules, so hosted CI at that SHA is the only evidence that could exist.

This is the regression half of #4516. The behavior change landed in #4543; these cases pin the parts of it that are easy to regress silently: that spare space actually restores a complete just-over-cap call, that restoring the newest call does not evict an older result, and that a checkpoint-covered call keeps its tail in the result suffix. The two existing 600 KiB tests are untouched and still prove the cap bites under pressure, which is the property a spare-budget pass could most plausibly break.

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