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When an assistant turn opens with a tool call and then speaks, the first TEXT_MESSAGE_CONTENT delta of the post-tool text was dropped from the assembled message. "Hello from the model." rendered as "from the model.".

Root cause

TOOL_CALL_START auto-creates the assistant message and sets pendingManualMessageId. The following TEXT_MESSAGE_START then takes the pending-message path (Case 1), which does not run the segment reset the existing-message path (Case 2) does, so hasToolCallsSinceTextStart stays set. The content handler's lazy reset was additionally gated on previousSegment.length > 0. With an empty prior segment that guard was false, so the stale flag survived to the second delta, whose reset wiped the already-accumulated first delta.

getState().content was correct throughout — only the assembled UIMessage TextPart lost the word. This breaks the docs/chat-architecture.md contract that every TEXT_MESSAGE_CONTENT delta appends.

Fix

Run the segment reset on the first post-tool delta regardless of whether the prior segment is empty; gate only the flush of a non-empty prior segment on previousSegment.length > 0.

  • Move the length > 0 guard off the segment-reset condition onto the prior-segment flush.
  • Add a unit test for the tool-then-text sequence in stream-processor.test.ts.
  • Add a text-tool-text e2e case for a turn that opens with a tool call.

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  • Docs: not user-facing — restores behavior already documented in docs/chat-architecture.md.
  • Changeset: added (patch, @tanstack/ai).

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where the first word of a response could be lost after a tool call.
    • Improved preservation of UI resources, structured output, tool results, metadata, and errors during streamed responses.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for tool-first conversations, interleaved streams, and UI-resource persistence.
    • Added an end-to-end test for complete text before and after a tool call.

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Walkthrough

The StreamProcessor now preserves the first text delta after a tool-call segment and retains UI-resource and tool-result data during snapshot reconciliation. Unit and end-to-end tests cover these changes.

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StreamProcessor behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Snapshot reconciliation and preservation
packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/processor.ts, packages/ai/tests/stream-processor.test.ts
Snapshot processing uses shared date coercion and preserves tool-result IDs, metadata, errors, and UI-resource parts across reconciliation and wire round trips.
Post-tool text segment handling
packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/processor.ts, packages/ai/tests/stream-processor.test.ts, .changeset/fix-post-tool-first-text-delta.md
The processor avoids emitting empty transition segments and retains the first text delta after a tool call. Unit coverage and the changeset document the behavior.
End-to-end tool-first response coverage
testing/e2e/fixtures/text-tool-text/tool-text.json, testing/e2e/tests/text-tool-text.spec.ts
The fixture and end-to-end test cover an opening getGuitars tool call followed by assistant text containing Martin D-28.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5c901

The PR restores the first text delta after a tool call, but a separate fallback path may still merge multiple detached tool-result messages that contain UI resources, potentially presenting their results as one message. This is a bounded correctness issue and is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: alemtuzlak, season179

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PatrM force-pushed the fix/stream-processor-post-tool-first-delta branch from 8c889b6 to c278b82 Compare August 26, 2026 09:19
PatrM added 2 commits August 26, 2026 11:20
A turn that opens with a tool call and then speaks had its assistant
message auto-created by TOOL_CALL_START, so TEXT_MESSAGE_START took the
pending-message path and never reset hasToolCallsSinceTextStart. The
segment reset then fired one TEXT_MESSAGE_CONTENT delta late and folded
the first delta away, dropping the first word of the post-tool reply.

Run the segment reset on the first post-tool delta even when the prior
segment is empty; gate only the flush of a non-empty prior segment.
Every delta now appends, per docs/chat-architecture.md.
Add a text-tool-text E2E case whose turn opens with a tool call and no
leading text, then speaks. This exercises the client StreamProcessor path
where the post-tool TEXT_MESSAGE_START does not reset the segment
accumulator, which previously dropped the reply's first word. Asserts the
leading word survives across the provider matrix. Red before the
processor fix, green after.
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PatrM force-pushed the fix/stream-processor-post-tool-first-delta branch from c278b82 to 5c901d3 Compare August 26, 2026 09:21

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1114-1123: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude UI-resource tool-result messages from fallback anchors.

A detached tool-result message can now include a ui-resource part. The fallback at Line 1143 only excludes a message with one tool-result part. If a snapshot has two detached tool results with UI resources and no assistant anchor, the second result is appended to the first result message. Keep each detached message intact by applying the same tool-result-only predicate in the fallback selection.

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In `@packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/processor.ts` around lines 1114 -
1123, Update the fallback anchor selection near the existing toolResultPart
logic to use the same predicate as the assistant-message check: accept only
messages whose parts are tool-result or ui-resource and contain exactly one
tool-result part. This prevents detached UI-resource tool-result messages from
being merged while preserving intact message boundaries.
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In `@packages/ai/src/activities/chat/stream/processor.ts`:
- Around line 1114-1123: Update the fallback anchor selection near the existing
toolResultPart logic to use the same predicate as the assistant-message check:
accept only messages whose parts are tool-result or ui-resource and contain
exactly one tool-result part. This prevents detached UI-resource tool-result
messages from being merged while preserving intact message boundaries.

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should coderabbits finding be handled here? seems like its outside the scope? Just let me know if I should consider it anyways 👍🏻

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