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  • Recycle of a Cursor SDK worker after the ~60 min access-token expiry used the same hook.sock path; unlink of the dying worker deleted the replacement's policy gate. Each instance now gets its own Unix socket (or Windows named pipe) and acquire waits for the real process exit — or fails if that wait times out, instead of forking over a live state/index.db.
  • Cursor and Pi child.send used to carry screenshot base64 and stall the IPC pipe. They now send attachment paths (path + mimeType + rootPath); the worker re-opens the existing .ade/attachments file through readFileWithinRootSecure (10 MB cap). Droid is unchanged.

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  • cursorSdkPool tests: unique per-instance sockets, wait-for-exit vs child.killed, live IPC error dispose, path-not-bytes screenshot send, replace-wait timeout fails acquire
  • workerAttachmentImages tests: path materialize, oversized reject, sandbox escape
  • piSdkProtocol tests: path+rootPath and data accepted; url / both / missing rootPath rejected
  • Unix-only socket-dir cleanup uses it.skipIf(win32) (no vacuous return)
  • CI green on this head (d8be2f4b3)

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  • New Features
    • Added support for image attachments in chat messages, including local files, inline images, and supported image references.
    • Image attachments now work across local and cloud chat workflows.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved worker recovery and cleanup to prevent replacement conflicts.
    • Added safeguards for oversized, inaccessible, invalid, or unsafe image files.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for image validation, secure file handling, worker cleanup, and recovery behavior.

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Worker image transport and Cursor worker lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Secure image materialization
apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/workerAttachmentImages.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/shared/utils.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/workerAttachmentImages.test.ts
Adds validated path, data, and URL image handling with rooted reads and a 10 MiB limit.
Pi and Cursor image contracts
apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkProtocol.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/piSdkProtocol.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkWorker.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/piSdkWorker.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/piSdkProtocol.test.ts
Updates worker protocols and handlers to validate, materialize, and forward supported images.
Attachment-aware prompt dispatch
apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/agentChatService.ts
Separates image text from image payloads and sends worker-specific image representations for Pi and Cursor flows.
Per-instance Cursor worker lifecycle
apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkPool.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkPool.test.ts
Adds per-instance sockets, exit tracking, delayed replacement, and coverage for IPC errors, cleanup, and image-path transmission.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to d8be2

Worker replacement can still start a new process while the previous process remains alive and accessing the same local database, particularly after initialization failure or a policy/model change. This can cause concurrent state access and corrupt or interfere with chat worker state, so the PR is not ready to merge until replacement coordination covers every worker sharing that state.

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Token recycle used to unlink the replacement worker's policy gate; per-instance sockets wait for the dying process. Cursor and Pi now send attachment paths over child.send instead of screenshot base64, and the worker re-opens those files through the attachment sandbox.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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arul28 force-pushed the ade/cursor-sdk-hook-socket-errors branch from f1a2289 to 6dc9115 Compare August 29, 2026 02:13
@arul28 arul28 changed the title Cursor SDK Hook Socket Errors -> main Fix Cursor hook.sock recycle and forked-worker screenshot IPC Aug 29, 2026

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In `@apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkPool.ts`:
- Around line 979-985: In
apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkPool.ts#L979-L985, update
acquireCursorSdkConnection so a CURSOR_SDK_REPLACE_WAIT_MS timeout does not fork
a replacement while the prior worker remains active; fail the acquire or
continue waiting until prior exit. In
apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkPool.test.ts#L586-L622, add a named
regression test that advances past the timeout without finishExit, asserts no
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validate-docs rejected a Windows vacuous return; skipIf that Unix-socket test. Acquire now throws if the poisoned worker outlives REPLACE_WAIT_MS so the next fork cannot share state/index.db.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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871-877: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Track initialization-failed workers before retrying.

In createCursorSdkConnection, the initialization-failure branch disposes the worker but does not call trackDepartingCursorSdkWorker. If the replacement timeout wins, pendingInits clears and the next acquireCursorSdkConnection call forks while the failed worker can still access the same cacheRoot/state/index.db. Track pooled.waitForExit() before disposal, or make the next acquire wait for it. Add a named regression test for this sequence.

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In `@apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkPool.ts` around lines 871 - 877,
Update the initialization-failure branch in createCursorSdkConnection to call
trackDepartingCursorSdkWorker with pooled.waitForExit() before disposing the
failed worker, ensuring later acquisitions wait for its exit even if the
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In `@apps/desktop/src/main/services/chat/cursorSdkPool.ts`:
- Around line 871-877: Update the initialization-failure branch in
createCursorSdkConnection to call trackDepartingCursorSdkWorker with
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Watchdog trips schedule a 3s cancel race after the 90s jump; advancing only the watchdog left nested recovery waiting until pumpUntil timed out.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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