fix(ai-client): preserve client-tool continuation ownership

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Fixes #1106

🎯 Changes

• Separates pending interrupt ownership from active interrupt submission state.

• Prevents legacy auto-continuation while native interrupt descriptors still own the continuation.

• Allows a settled native resume to continue normally when it produces a subsequent client-tool call.

• Fixes sequential client tools becoming blocked during nested resume flows.

• Adds unit and E2E coverage for native-to-native and native-to-legacy continuation sequences.

• Updates structured-output tool documentation to describe the interrupt/resume lifecycle.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved sequential client-tool resume handling.
  • Prevented new messages or automatic continuation while interrupt actions remain unresolved.
  • Preserved resume ownership and chained request context across multiple tool interruptions.
  • Improved propagation of transport errors during resumed interactions.

• Documentation

  • Clarified how client-tool execution and resumption work.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for legacy tools, sequential resumes, request chaining, completion notifications, and error handling.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The client now preserves native interrupt ownership during sequential client-tool resumes. It blocks ordinary continuation while interrupts remain pending, forwards chained resume parameters, updates the documentation, and adds unit and E2E coverage.

Changes

Sequential client-tool resume handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Interrupt ownership and resume behavior packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts, packages/ai-client/tests/chat-client-resume.test.ts, docs/structured-outputs/with-tools.md, .changeset/fix-sequential-client-tool-resumes.md	ChatClient blocks normal and automatic continuation while interrupt descriptors remain. Tests cover legacy client-tool continuation, chained native resumes, parent run IDs, resume items, and transport errors. Documentation describes the internal interrupt and resume-batch flow.
End-to-end resume request verification testing/e2e/src/routes/api.tools-test.ts, testing/e2e/tests/tools-test/race-conditions.spec.ts	The tools-test route forwards optional parentRunId and resume values. The E2E test verifies the initial request, two chained resume requests, and completion notification.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a0946

The PR updates continuation ownership behavior and adds focused unit and end-to-end coverage. A minor test-placement cleanup remains, but it does not affect product behavior or create an actionable merge-blocking risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatClient
  participant ChatTransport
  participant ClientTool
  ChatClient->>ChatTransport: Send native resume with parentRunId and resume item
  ChatTransport-->>ChatClient: Return client-tool interrupt
  ChatClient->>ClientTool: Execute client tool
  ClientTool-->>ChatClient: Return tool result
  ChatClient->>ChatTransport: Send chained native resume

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Possibly related PRs

• TanStack/ai#996: Modifies client-tool interrupt waiting and resume handling.
• TanStack/ai#1053: Updates interrupt-resume handling and run correlation tests.
• TanStack/ai#1090: Addresses client-tool resume handling and interrupt ownership state.

Suggested reviewers: alemtuzlak, tombeckenham

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary fix to client-tool continuation ownership.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections, explains the fix, records testing, and documents the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #1106 by preserving native resume ownership and testing sequential, nested, and failed resume flows.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, tests, documentation, E2E support, and changeset directly support the linked issue and stated objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/ai-client/tests/chat-client-resume.test.ts`:
- Around line 1205-1443: Move the changed ChatClient resume tests, including
“continues a legacy client tool emitted by a native resume” and “keeps native
interrupt ownership when a sequential client tool resume fails,” from the tests
directory into a *.test.ts file alongside the ChatClient source module. Preserve
all existing test setup, assertions, and resume behavior checks.

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• .changeset/fix-sequential-client-tool-resumes.md
• docs/structured-outputs/with-tools.md
• packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts
• packages/ai-client/tests/chat-client-resume.test.ts
• testing/e2e/src/routes/api.tools-test.ts
• testing/e2e/tests/tools-test/race-conditions.spec.ts

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