Assistant text before a tool call (e.g. ask_user popup) is hidden in the collapsed "Thought for…" block instead of rendering as chat
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Descripción
Describe the bug
In interactive mode, any assistant chat text written in the same turn before a tool call (most notably the ask_user question popup) is never rendered as a visible chat message. It is instead folded into the collapsed "Thought for Ns" reasoning block, where it stays hidden unless manually expanded — even after the tool call resolves.
The practical impact: when the agent writes explanatory context ("here's the quoted text / options / proposal…") and then opens an ask_user popup referring to that context, the user only sees the popup and cannot see the text it refers to.
Affected version
1.0.73 (Copilot app / workspace UI; copilot --version in shell reports 26.5.2)
Steps to reproduce the behavior
Ran a series of controlled tests with the agent in interactive mode:
- Agent emits a chat message containing a marker + blockquote, then calls
ask_userin the same turn → user sees only the popup; the text never appears, even after answering. It is only findable by expanding the "Thought for Ns" block. - Agent emits a text-only turn (no tool calls) → text renders normally as visible chat.
- Agent calls a tool first, then writes text after the tool result in the same turn → text renders normally.
- Markdown inside the
ask_userquestion field (blockquote, inline code, bold) renders correctly, and long question text is not truncated — so the popup itself is fine; only preceding same-turn text is lost.
Expected behavior
Assistant text preceding a tool call in the same turn should render as a normal, permanently visible chat message (before or alongside the popup), not be classified as model reasoning/thinking and collapsed.
Additional context
- Operating system: macOS (Darwin, ARM)
- Surface: Copilot desktop app (Tauri workspace UI) project session, interactive mode
- The misclassification appears to be in how the UI segments a turn: everything prior to the first tool call is treated as part of the thinking block rather than as assistant output.
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Línea de trabajo
Empieza reproduciendo el problema en modo interactivo con texto del assistant antes de una llamada a ask_user; después, inspecciona cómo la UI del workspace segmenta un turno alrededor de su primera llamada a una herramienta. Se considera terminado cuando el texto anterior del assistant se muestra como un mensaje de chat permanentemente visible, mientras el popup de ask_user sigue funcionando.
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Evaluación
- Stack tecnológico
- tauri
- Área
- desktop, frontend
- Tipo de issue
- Error
- Dificultad
- 3/5
- Tiempo estimado
- 1-2 días
- Estado de actividad
- Tranquilo
- Claridad
- Bastante claro
- Aptitud para principiantes
- 58/100