How to show and respond to questions that the agent asks the user?

[dirodriguezm]

Sometimes the agent will want extra information and ask questions to the user. For example this is the case for Opencode in Plan Mode.

The chat buffer just hangs like in the picture

[olimorris]

To my knowledge, this isn't part of the ACP spec

[dirodriguezm]

First of all, thanks for answering and for this amazing project. It appears that you are right, this is not part of the protocol, but it still would be useful to be able to use this feature. Opencode seems to do this quite often, both in build and plan modes and it causes the chat buffer to be unresponsive, so the only way out of this state is to cancel the request. I'm not sure if this is something specific to my setup or a general issue. Maybe someone else who uses Opencode can confirm.

[olimorris]

It would be great feature to add but this shouldn't be from CodeCompanion. I'd advise proposing this upstream to the official acp repo.

[olimorris]

For the time being, can you instruct OpenCode not to respond in that way? It seems really strange that within a chat interface, they have an additional non-compatible way of asking a user a question. I assume it's a way to ask a user a question mid-way through a task. But this will break every editor that's added support via ACP.

[dirodriguezm]

I think this is actually a problem with OpenCode when running with opencode acp. Here's one issue anomalyco/opencode#10012

Since this is a specific OpenCode tool, it's not really related to codecompanion. If the question tool just used plain text I think there would be no issue at all.

In any case, thank you for taking a look into this.