[BUG]: "Operation cancelled by user" is re-injected as a user message after cancelling a turn
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Description
Type rg --version### What happened?
When I cancel an in-progress turn (Esc / Ctrl-C), the line `Operation cancelled by user` is sent back to the model as if it were a new **user message** (it arrives with its own fresh timestamp). The agent then "replies" to it as though it were a real instruction/content, instead of the cancel simply aborting the current operation silently.
This produces phantom turns: every cancel results in the assistant responding to nothing.
### Expected behavior
Cancelling a turn should abort the current operation and return to the prompt without injecting `Operation cancelled by user` into the conversation as a user turn. The model should not be prompted to respond to it.
### Steps to reproduce
1. Send a prompt that triggers tool calls / a longer operation.
2. Cancel mid-operation (Esc / Ctrl-C).
3. Observe `Operation cancelled by user` appears as a user message with a new timestamp, and the assistant generates a reply addressed to it.
### Notes
- Reported as a regression — a user observed this did not happen in earlier versions.
- Likely related to (but distinct from) the closed #2502 "Stuck in \"Cancelling\" after operation cancelled by user".
- Behavior is client-side and version-dependent, not account- or repo-specific.
### Version
1.0.63
### OS
macOS (Darwin)
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