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Problem

ACP agents end a prompt with a stop reason. Besides end_turn and cancelled, the protocol defines refusal, max_tokens and max_turn_requests, and its schema says a refusal "should be reflected in the UI" because the agent drops that prompt from its next turn. The ACP adapter only special-cases error and cancelled, so all three of these end as a completed turn. A refused prompt or a reply cut off at a limit looks the same as a finished answer, and nothing tells the user the agent will not remember it.

Change

refusal, max_tokens and max_turn_requests now fail the turn with a provider failure, the same way an idle error already does. The failure message says what happened (a refusal also says the agent's next turn won't include that message or its reply), and its code is the stop reason. The mapping is shared by every place a stop reason becomes a status:

• the prompt response (ACP v1 agents, Grok, and v2 agents whose runtime reports idle there),
• the idle state_update for agents that follow agent work state (Claude Agent on ACP v2),
• a native child session's idle state_update, and Claude's subagent_update child state, so a refused or limit-stopped subagent shows as failed with that message instead of its partial reply. This matches what an idle error already does for a child.

end_turn, cancelled, interruption and unknown stop reasons keep their current handling. No contract, status or client change: the existing failed terminal and its error row carry the message.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious bug under CONTRIBUTING.md § prior approval: the adapter records stop reasons the ACP schema defines as unsuccessful as success. It follows #24615, which made an idle error fail the turn, and reuses that path. No issue or discussion covers it.

One choice for maintainers to confirm: these three reasons use the existing failed status and provider error row, not a new status or notice type. Claude's adapter already reports its own token-budget stop (budget_exhausted) as a failed turn with a message, so this matches.

Open #26959 adds instruction-delivery logic just above the prompt-response mapping this PR edits. The two may conflict textually but change different behavior.

Verification

• vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.test.ts -t "fails a prompt that stops": 3 new cases, one per stop reason, on the prompt-response path. On the base commit all 3 fail with expected 'completed' to equal 'failed'. With the fix all 3 pass.
• vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts -t "fails Claude's turn and child": 4 new cases for Claude Agent on ACP v2, where a child stops through either its own state_update or the parent's subagent_update, then the root goes idle with the same reason. On the base commit all 4 fail the same way. With only the adapter change, the 2 subagent_update cases still fail. With the full fix the root turn fails with the reason as its code and the child subagent is failed with a message.
• The full AcpAdapterV2, AcpRegistryAdapterV2, GrokAdapterV2, AntigravityAdapterV2 and FxAdapterV2 test files plus the provider-acp-registry tests: 204 tests pass.
• vp run check:changed 1d626d02d95f9a2343553f6498037ee82290d304: passes.
• A scripted ACP agent that replies and then returns stopReason: "refusal", driven from the composer on the base and on this branch:

Web, before: the refusal reads as a normal answer.

Web, after: the turn fails and the error row shows the refusal.

iOS (iPad simulator), before:

iOS (iPad simulator), after:

Android (emulator), before:

Android (emulator), after:

Desktop (Linux, dev build), before:

Desktop (Linux, dev build), after:

Not checked:

• A live refusal or limit from a real provider. The stop reasons came from a scripted agent and replay transcripts.
• The desktop app on macOS and Windows. Linux shows the same web client the other desktop builds load.

Prior PRs

• fix(acp): idle agent errors fail their turns #24615 by juliusmarminge made ACP idle error fail the turn. This extends the same mapping.
• fix(acp): surface idle errors as failed turns #21229 by anesthetised and fix(server): ACP v2 idle errors fail the turn #23218 by juliusmarminge proposed idle-error handling before fix(acp): idle agent errors fail their turns #24615 landed.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at e9e97c2

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Refused and limit-stopped ACP turns and subagents now report failure with an explanation instead of appearing completed. The change reuses existing failure handling without changing provider limits or product defaults.

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Findings

Terminalize foreground tools on idle failure.

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Review comments at @packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Line 4588: In the ACP v2 unfinished-stop failure path around
stopReasonFailure, call terminalizeOpenForegroundTools before finalizing the
turn, matching the prompt-response failure path so any running foreground tools
are terminalized.

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Walkthrough

The ACP adapters now treat refusal, max_tokens, and max_turn_requests as failure stop reasons for prompt turns and idle child sessions. Tests cover prompt failures and Claude child-session updates.

Changes: ACP stop handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Prompt stop settlement packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.test.ts	The adapter maps the three unfinished stop reasons to failure messages and applies failures during idle-work and prompt settlement. Prompt tests check that each reason sets the failure code.
Child-session stop propagation packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-acp-registry/src/server/claudeAcp.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts	Idle child sessions and Claude subagent state events fail for unfinished stop reasons. Child results use the provider error message when present, then the mapped stop message. Tests cover both child-update formats.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to e9e97

A refused turn can leave a tool showing as running and cause the next prompt to omit guidance. Correct both paths before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: ACP turns stopped by refusal or limits no longer appear completed.
Description check		The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the affected stop reasons, implementation scope, approval rationale, test results, screens…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the affected stop reasons, implementation scope, approval rationale, test results, screenshots, and unchecked scenarios.

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Major · Preserve instruction state when runtime.prompt returns refusal. · adapter.ts:7786

packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts:7786
Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Preserve instruction state when runtime.prompt returns refusal.

Both cache updates run before stopReasonFailure classifies the response. When the refused prompt included instructions, the first update caches its state and the second removes its compaction marker. The next prompt then passes the same state to t3AcpPromptWithInstructions, which returns only the user prompt for equal states. The next turn can therefore omit instructions that the refused turn did not retain.

Gate both prompt-response cache updates on result.stopReason !== "refusal". This keeps the previous state and compaction marker for a refusal. The next prompt then includes the instructions again. This correction applies to the runtime.prompt path; the inspected idle-settlement path does not write these caches.

Suggested fix

-              Effect.tap(() =>
+              Effect.tap((result) =>
                 Ref.update(promptInstructionStates, (current) => {
-                  if (promptParts?.instructionState === undefined) return current;
+                  if (
+                    promptParts?.instructionState === undefined ||
+                    result.stopReason === "refusal"
+                  )
+                    return current;
                   const updated = new Map(current);
                   updated.set(requestedSessionId, promptParts.instructionState);
                   return updated;
                 }),
               ),
-              Effect.tap(() =>
+              Effect.tap((result) =>
                 Ref.update(compactionMarkers, (current) => {
-                  if (promptParts?.instructionState === undefined) return current;
+                  if (
+                    promptParts?.instructionState === undefined ||
+                    result.stopReason === "refusal"
+                  )
+                    return current;
                   const observedMarker = promptParts.compactionMarker;

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Review comment at @packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts at line 7786:
In the `runtime.prompt` response pipeline, gate both updates to
`promptInstructionStates` and `compactionMarkers` on `result.stopReason` not
being `"refusal"`. Preserve the existing cached instruction state and compaction
marker for refusals so the next prompt resends instructions.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Line 4588: In the ACP v2 unfinished-stop failure path around
stopReasonFailure, call terminalizeOpenForegroundTools before finalizing the
turn, matching the prompt-response failure path so any running foreground tools
are terminalized.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Line 7786: In the `runtime.prompt` response pipeline, gate both updates to
`promptInstructionStates` and `compactionMarkers` on `result.stopReason` not
being `"refusal"`. Preserve the existing cached instruction state and compaction
marker for refusals so the next prompt resends instructions.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Terminalize foreground tools on idle failure.

If an ACP v2 agent reports an unfinished stop while a foreground tool is still running, this path finalizes the turn as failed without terminalizing that tool. The tool remains running after the turn ends. The prompt-response failure path already calls terminalizeOpenForegroundTools; apply the same handling here.

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Review comment at @packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts at line 4588:
In the ACP v2 unfinished-stop failure path around stopReasonFailure, call
terminalizeOpenForegroundTools before finalizing the turn, matching the
prompt-response failure path so any running foreground tools are terminalized.

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