[antonsxh]

ACP compaction can replace the model's history with a summary that omits T3's browser and orchestration instructions. Later prompts then omit those instructions because interaction mode and MCP availability have not changed.

The ACP adapter now tracks a unique pending marker for each session compaction and resends the existing instruction block on the next ordinary prompt. It clears only the marker observed by a prompt that actually injected instructions, preserving compactions that complete while that prompt runs. Successful native /compact also marks the session when no protocol compaction update arrives; failed compaction does not. Slash commands remain untouched and do not consume pending reinjection. Rollback that replaces the runtime clears the tracking state.

Maintainer takeover of #21053, preserving @antonsxh's commits and the compaction/native-fallback fixes from review. Main was merged without rewriting the contributor branch. Removed the new shared instruction-helper flag: omitting cached instruction state in the adapter already requests reinjection. Production changes stay in the adapter. Unique markers also prevent an older prompt completion from matching a later compaction after the previous marker was cleared; no counter or second state map is needed.

Fixes #21036.

Verification:

• Replaced the PR's 3 helper tests with 2 adapter tests in the existing suite, extending the existing mock agent. Full focused suites: 120 adapter + 6 baseline helper = 126 passed.
• Both adapter regressions fail against main. During test development, removing the pending-compaction guard failed the compaction-during-reinjection case; removing native fallback failed the successful /compact case.
• Headless Linux verification launches a fake ACP agent subprocess through the real session runtime, sends actual JSON-RPC prompts/compaction updates, and inspects the outgoing instruction payloads. The parent independently reran both regressions on the final implementation: 2 passed. Event draining makes the race deterministic; no new sleeps or polling.

Sequence	Observed result
Protocol compaction → native slash command → ordinary prompt	Slash command unchanged; ordinary prompt contains mode, collaborative browser and orchestration guidance
Another compaction while the reinjection prompt runs	Following ordinary prompt injects again; later normal prompt stops repeating instructions
Failed native /compact	Next normal prompt remains unwrapped
Successful native /compact without protocol update → slash command → ordinary prompt	Slash command unchanged; ordinary prompt reinjects once

Two full-diff review rounds by independent Claude and Codex agents finished with no code findings in round 2. Current-head CI passed, including web/server tests, build/typecheck and lint. A cancelled duplicate fingerprint run has a successful replacement. CodeRabbit reports a successful status with “Review rate limited”; this is not a fresh hosted bot approval. Round 1 identified possible counter reuse after a delayed completion; unique marker identity removes that reuse. The cancellation-timeout sequence itself was not experimentally reproduced.

Provider-core, provider-acp and server typechecks, formatting and diff checks passed. Targeted lint has only three pre-existing warnings. This is a nonvisual adapter change, so screenshots are not applicable. Real provider compaction, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Electron desktop were not verified; no paid provider turn was attempted.

Implementation: Codex GPT-6.1-Sol; tests: Codex GPT-6-Astra; independent reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6-Sol, through T3 Code.

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Verdict: Approved at 9b1d0f1

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped ACP bug fix that restores existing T3 instructions only after context compaction, preserves slash commands and normal prompts, and includes focused regression tests. It does not change schemas, defaults, deployment behavior, or security-sensitive code.

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📝 Walkthrough

The ACP adapter tracks session compactions and passes the observed state to instruction construction. After compaction, an eligible prompt can include T3 guidance even when instruction state is unchanged. The adapter clears a generation only when the prompt included instructions and no newer compaction occurred.

Changes: ACP guidance reinjection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compaction-aware instruction construction packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.ts, packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.test.ts	The instruction builder accepts compactedSinceLastInjection. It reinjects guidance when this flag is true, while slash commands pass through unchanged. Tests cover reinjection after compaction and unchanged prompts when compaction is not reported.
ACP compaction tracking packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts	The adapter tracks compaction generations from tool calls and successful /compact turns. It passes the observed generation to instruction construction and clears it only when the prompt injected instructions and the generation has not changed. Rollback resets all generations.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 412d7

This change re-injects T3 instructions after ACP compaction. A narrow edge case remains unproven: a compaction update delivered after a turn finishes might not trigger re-injection. Merging is reasonable, with owner awareness of that edge case.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🟡 Medium · up to 412d7

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: packages/provider-core, packages/provider-acp

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Systems and components

• observed — packages/provider-core (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — packages/provider-acp (library) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.test.ts: Adds a test expecting unchanged-state ACP guidance to be reinjected after compaction, including mode, browser, orchestration, and wrapped-request content.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.test.ts: Adds a test expecting /compact to remain unchanged when compaction is reported, despite unchanged state.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/provider-core/src/server/orchestrationInstructions.test.ts: Adds a test expecting an unchanged prompt when state is unchanged and compactedSinceLastInjection is false.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts: Adds a per-session compaction generation map, with comments describing its use in deciding when to reinject T3 instructions.

Reliability and maintainability

• inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for packages/provider-core: blast_radius_1; direct_dependents_1

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Issue [#21036] requires ACP T3 instructions to return after compaction when interaction mode and MCP availability remain unchanged. The adapter records per-session compaction generations at compaction…
Out of Scope Changes check		The prompt option, ACP compaction tracking, runtime-reset handling, and focused tests directly support issue [#21036]. The explicit /compact completion path and generation handling during concurrent…
Title check		The title is concise, specific, and accurately describes the main change: re-injecting T3 instructions into ACP sessions after compaction.
Description check		The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, verification results, limitations, and linked issue. It provides detailed focused test evidence and identifies unverified environments.

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Explanation

Issue [#21036] requires ACP T3 instructions to return after compaction when interaction mode and MCP availability remain unchanged. The adapter records per-session compaction generations at compaction completion, passes the pending state to t3AcpPromptWithInstructions, and clears it only after an actual instruction injection. Slash commands remain unchanged. Focused tests cover reinjection after compaction, slash commands, and the unchanged pre-compaction case.

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Explanation

The prompt option, ACP compaction tracking, runtime-reset handling, and focused tests directly support issue [#21036]. The explicit /compact completion path and generation handling during concurrent prompt processing support the same required behavior. No unrelated changes appear in the reviewed diff.

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Review comments at @packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Around line 6679-6685: Update the success callback that modifies
compactedSinceInstructionInjection to clear only the marker present when
resolvePromptParts constructed the prompt, preserving any compaction marker
added while runtime.prompt is running. Use a per-session generation if a boolean
marker cannot distinguish a new compaction from the one observed during prompt
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- Around line 3065-3069: Update the explicit `/compact` success branch to add
`context.nativeThreadId` to `compactedSinceInstructionInjection` before emitting
the completed compaction item. Preserve existing entries in the set so
subsequent unchanged-state prompts retain the T3 instructions.

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Taking over this one for the other-providers-05 maintainer batch. I’ll preserve your commits and push here after replacing helper-only coverage with adapter-level compaction regressions, checking the injection race and native /compact fallback, and running independent reviews. Thanks @antonsxh.