Make slash commands cancellable and keep the prompt live (Fixes #2976) - #3362
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A long slash command took the input prompt away for its whole duration and could not be abandoned. Two defects combined: the action was awaited while `isProcessing` gated composer rendering, and `cancelOngoingRequest` returned early unless the stream was Responding, which a slash command never is. Commands also had no cancellation signal, so `/image` and `/setup-github` each invented their own. - `CommandContext` gains a required `signal`, populated per invocation in the interactive path and from the run controller in non-interactive mode. - A registry of in-flight command controllers lets Esc abort them. It holds every in-flight controller, not just the newest, because the live prompt means a second command can be submitted while a long one runs. - `cancelOngoingRequest` cancels slash commands before the streaming gate and reports it once in history. - An aborted invocation's outcome is discarded whether it resolved or rejected, so a cancelled command neither reports an error nor goes on to submit the prompt it was building. - Composer visibility stops using the slash-command pipeline as a proxy for "something else owns the keyboard" and tests for a pending confirmation directly. - `imageCommand` drops its SIGINT listener, `setupGithubCommand` threads the signal into its downloads, and `shellProcessor` stops manufacturing a throwaway controller and stops spawning injections after an abort. Verified in the tmux harness as well as by unit tests: the harness caught that an aborted shell injection resolves rather than throws, so the cancelled command still reached the model until the resolve-side discard was added.
Follow-ups from review of the #2976 change: - Register the invocation controller inside the same try/finally that builds the command context, so a failure while building it cannot strand a controller that a later Esc would report as cancelled. - Log a discarded result as well as a discarded error, so a command whose outcome was dropped by cancellation leaves a trace either way. - Cover the shellProcessor loop guard that stops spawning further injections once the invocation is cancelled. - Make the /image discard test reject with an unrelated provider error, so the rule reads as 'a cancelled invocation's outcome is discarded' rather than as abort-error sniffing.
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In `@packages/cli/src/ui/commands/imageCommand.ts`:
- Around line 77-81: Update imageCommand.action after the awaited runner call to
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Review triageThanks — four actionable threads. Two fixed, two rejected with reasoning. Fixed
Correct, and it was inconsistent with the framework:
Fair coverage gap. The first test now also asserts Rejected
The premise does not hold. So a throwing listener cannot abort the loop or leave later controllers unaborted, and the documented contract holds as written. Also in this pushThe CI failures were one root cause: the harness script picked the user commands directory with a |
…ccess item - The harness script picked the user commands directory with a $HOME/.llxprt fallback, which the legacy-path guard flags (failing Lint (Javascript) and scripts/tests/legacy-paths-guard.test.ts). It now asks Storage.getUserCommandsDir(), which is also correct off macOS. - /image wrote its success item even when the runner won the race with the abort, contradicting the framework's cancellation notice. It now checks the signal before reporting, matching how runCommandAction treats a cancelled invocation's outcome. - Assert in the Esc test that cancelling an idle slash command leaves the turn alone.
Second review roundTwo new threads from the fresh OCR run. One fixed, one rejected. Fixed
Right, and it described the uncommon path as if it were the normal one. When a slash command is in flight the state is Rejected
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When a slash command is in flight the stream is Idle, so the gate below returns and turn cancellation is never reached. The comment described the uncommon path as if it were the normal one.
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TLDR
A long slash command used to take the input prompt away for its whole duration, and Esc did nothing. Reported against
/image, which can run for a minute against gpt-image-2, but the gap is in the slash-command execution model, not the image feature.This threads a real
AbortSignalthroughCommandContext, lets Esc abort in-flight slash commands, and stops keying composer visibility off "the slash-command pipeline is busy". TheSIGINTand throwaway-AbortControllerworkarounds inimageCommand.ts,setupGithubCommand.tsandshellProcessor.tsare gone.Reviewers: the interesting parts are
runCommandActioninslashCommandHandlers.ts(what happens to a cancelled invocation's outcome), the multi-controller registry inuseSlashCommandCancellation.ts(why it is not a single slot), andcomputeIsInputActiveinuseAppInput.ts(whyisProcessingis no longer an input).Dive Deeper
The two original defects
processSlashCommandawaited the command action betweensetIsProcessing(true)andsetIsProcessing(false), anduseAppInputfolded!isProcessingintoisInputActive, whichInlineContentuses to decide whether to render the composer. So the prompt vanished for the whole command.useCancellation.cancelOngoingRequestreturned early unlessstreamingStatewasRespondingorWaitingForConfirmation.useStreamingStatederives that fromisRespondingandtoolCalls; a slash command sets neither, so the state wasIdleand Esc was a no-op. There was also no signal to hand the command even if Esc had fired.Direction
Option 1 from the issue: thread the signal, make the existing Esc handler aware of in-flight commands, and revisit
isInputActive. Option 2 (route long commands through the tool-call scheduler) was rejected here: it needs a product decision about slash commands synthesising tool calls and how that renders in history, and it would not by itself give the generic slash-command layer a cancellation signal. Option 3 (async-task manager) has the same problem and adds a second lifecycle owner.What changed
CommandContext.signalis a new required field. The interactive path supplies a fresh per-invocation controller's signal; the non-interactive path supplies its existing run-level controller's signal; the base context (used for completions, which are not cancellable) gets a never-aborting one.useSlashCommandCancellation.ts) that Esc can abort. It holds every in-flight controller, not just the newest: keeping the prompt live means a user can submit a second command while a long one runs, and a single slot would let the short command's completion evict the long one and leave it uncancellable, which is the bug this PR is fixing.cancelOngoingRequestcancels slash commands before the streaming-state gate and adds oneCommand cancelled.INFO item, distinct from the turn-levelRequest cancelled.. A second Esc adds nothing.isProcessing. That was only ever a proxy for "something else owns the keyboard", and a poor one: it is a plain boolean shared by overlapping invocations.confirm_actionrenders through the dialog manager, which already replaces the whole inline layout;confirm_shell_commandsparks a Confirming tool group in the processor's pending items, which is now tested for directly. A pending item that is merely progress does not take the prompt away.imageCommand.tsdropsprocess.once('SIGINT', ...);setupGithubCommand.tscomposes the invocation signal into its downloadAbortSignal.any(its own controller keeps its real job of releasing the per-batch fetch timeouts);shellProcessor.tspasses the invocation signal toShellExecutionService.executeinstead ofnew AbortController().signal, and stops spawning later!{...}injections once the signal aborts.What the tmux harness caught that unit tests did not
The first harness run showed the prompt staying visible and
Command cancelled.appearing correctly, and then the model replying anyway.shellProcessorhandles an aborted execution by returning a status suffix rather than throwing, so the action resolved normally withsubmit_promptand the framework submitted it. Discarding only rejections was not enough; hence the resolve-side discard above.Known follow-ups, deliberately not in this PR
/image,/setup-githuband the shell processor actually honourcontext.signaltoday. Long-running built-ins such as/compressand/extensions updatekeep running after Esc, so for them the notice describes the invocation rather than the underlying work. The mechanism now exists for all of them; migrating them is separate work.SlashCommandEvent.Reviewer Test Plan
Automated, from the repo root:
Interactive, via the tmux harness (this is the reproduction from the issue, made deterministic):
It provisions a temporary user command whose prompt embeds
!{sleep 90}(removed again by atrap), runs against the fake provider, and asserts that the composer is still on screen while the command runs, that Esc producesCommand cancelled., that the fake model's marker never appears afterwards, and that/quitstill exits. Exit code 0 means all of that held.By hand, if you have Codex OAuth set up, the original repro:
/image out.png "a photorealistic cat".Command cancelled.promptly, noout.pngshould be written, and the session should stay usable.Worth poking at specifically:
Testing Matrix
Verified on macOS: full monorepo test suite, lint, typecheck, build, the tmux harness scenario above, and an interactive startup smoke run. Nothing here is platform-specific beyond the harness script's use of a POSIX shell.
Linked issues / bugs
Fixes #2976
Follow-up from #2128 / PR #2813.
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