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When the consumer stops an AI.chat Stream early (Stream.take, Fiber.interrupt, Stream.interruptWhen), middleware onAbort does not run. No terminal hook runs, so a persistence middleware never marks the stopped run as aborted. toStream now aborts the run before it calls the iterator's return(), and it waits for that teardown. As a result, onAbort runs once, before the interrupt completes.

🎯 Changes

• toStream (packages/ai-effect/src/lift.ts): one Effect.acquireRelease owns the iterator. Its release aborts the signal, then awaits return().
• Stream.fromAsyncIterable gets an iterable with only next(). The release above is the only teardown.
• Unit tests in tests/chat.test.ts: Stream.take, an interrupt while the consumer handles a chunk, and an interrupt while a read is pending. Each hook awaits a timer, as a hook that writes to a store does.
• E2E: effect-chat.spec.ts stops the Stream after the first text chunk against aimock. The route counts the onAbort calls.
• Docs: no change. docs/api/ai-effect.md says "Interruption aborts the run". The middleware guide says that exactly one of onFinish, onAbort and onError runs. This fix makes both statements true for an interrupted Stream.
• Changeset: patch for @tanstack/ai-effect.

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Root cause

Issue. Any code that stops an AI.chat Stream early gets no terminal middleware hook. onAbort, onFinish and onError all stay silent. Cleanup and persistence hooks do not run.

Cause. toStream registered controller.abort() in the Stream.unwrap scope. Stream.fromAsyncIterable registers the iterator's return() in an inner channel scope, and that scope closes first. So core chat() got return() while its signal was not aborted yet. Its finally block runs onAbort only when the run is cancelled, so it ran no hook. The abort came after that, too late. Also, in effect 4.1, fromAsyncIterable does not await return() while a next() is pending.

Fix. One release now does both steps in order: abort the signal, then await return(). fromAsyncIterable gets a wrapper with no return(), so it cannot call return() before the abort. Core sees an aborted signal and runs onAbort. The interrupt waits for that teardown.

Possible alternatives

• Abort inside a wrapper return() only. This fixes Stream.take. It does not fix an interrupt during a pending read, because fromAsyncIterable does not await return() then. I ran this change against the repro below. The pending-read case fails (expected [] to deeply equal [ 'onAbort done' ]).
• Call return() without waiting for it. The interrupt then stays immediate. But it completes before onAbort finishes, so a hook that awaits I/O can lose its write.

Tradeoff of this PR. An interrupt now waits for the iterator to settle. Core chat() obeys the signal, so a chat unwinds at once. But toStream is generic, and src/activities.ts also uses it. If an iterable ignores the abort while a next() is pending, the interrupt waits until that read settles.

Testing

Commands run

• NX_BASE=upstream/main pnpm test:pr: pass (Successfully ran targets test:sherif, test:knip, test:docs, test:kiira, test:maintainer, test:ai-review, test:oxlint, test:lib, test:types, test:build, build for 4 projects and 46 tasks they depend on). Nx took 60 of 61 tasks from its cache of an earlier run on the same files.
• pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-e2e exec playwright test tests/effect-chat.spec.ts: 3 passed. I did not run the full E2E suite.
• pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-effect exec vitest run tests/chat.test.ts: 15 passed. With src/lift.ts from main, the 3 new cases fail (expected [] to have a length of 1 but got +0).
• The same E2E spec with @tanstack/ai-effect built from main's lift.ts: the new case fails.

  ✘  3 [chromium] › tests/effect-chat.spec.ts:52:3 › ai-effect › stopping the chat Stream early runs middleware onAbort (1.1s)
    -   "aborts": 1,
    +   "aborts": 0,
  1 failed
  2 passed (10.0s)

Separate repro on clean main. I wrote a second test that is not on the branch. It uses Stream.runHead and Stream.interruptWhen, which the branch tests do not use. Both cases log onAbort done from a hook that awaits 5 ms. I ran it with pnpm --dir packages/ai-effect exec vitest run tests/gate1-2924bd02f256.test.ts. The Vite config warning lines are left out.

Repro test

import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
import { Deferred, Effect, Stream } from 'effect'
import { fakeText } from '@tanstack/ai/testing'
import { chat } from '../src/chat'
import type { ChatMiddleware } from '@tanstack/ai'

function hookLog() {
  const log: Array<string> = []
  const middleware: ChatMiddleware = {
    name: 'gate1',
    onAbort: async () => {
      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 5))
      log.push('onAbort done')
    },
    onFinish: () => {
      log.push('onFinish')
    },
  }
  return { log, middleware }
}

describe('gate1 2091', () => {
  it('Stream.runHead on the first text chunk ends the run through onAbort', async () => {
    const adapter = fakeText()
    adapter.setResponses([{ text: 'one two three four five six seven' }])
    const { log, middleware } = hookLog()

    await Effect.runPromise(
      Stream.runHead(
        chat({
          adapter,
          messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'go' }],
          threadId: 'g1',
          middleware: [middleware],
        }).pipe(Stream.filter((c) => c.type === 'TEXT_MESSAGE_CONTENT')),
      ),
    )

    expect(log).toEqual(['onAbort done'])
  })

  it('Stream.interruptWhen during a pending read finishes onAbort before the run returns', async () => {
    const adapter = fakeText({ tokensPerSecond: 20 })
    adapter.setResponses([{ text: 'one two three four five six seven' }])
    const { log, middleware } = hookLog()

    await Effect.runPromise(
      Effect.gen(function* () {
        const stop = yield* Deferred.make<void>()
        yield* Stream.runForEach(
          chat({
            adapter,
            messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'go' }],
            threadId: 'g2',
            middleware: [middleware],
          }).pipe(
            Stream.interruptWhen(
              Deferred.await(stop).pipe(Effect.andThen(Effect.sleep('10 millis'))),
            ),
          ),
          (c) =>
            c.type === 'TEXT_MESSAGE_CONTENT'
              ? Deferred.succeed(stop, undefined)
              : Effect.void,
        )
      }),
    )

    expect(log).toEqual(['onAbort done'])
  })
})

On main (c32f641):

 ❯ |@tanstack/ai-effect| tests/gate1-2924bd02f256.test.ts (2 tests | 2 failed) 78ms
     × Stream.runHead on the first text chunk ends the run through onAbort 10ms
     × Stream.interruptWhen during a pending read finishes onAbort before the run returns 67ms

 FAIL  |@tanstack/ai-effect| tests/gate1-2924bd02f256.test.ts > gate1 2091 > Stream.runHead on the first text chunk ends the run through onAbort
AssertionError: expected [] to deeply equal [ 'onAbort done' ]

 FAIL  |@tanstack/ai-effect| tests/gate1-2924bd02f256.test.ts > gate1 2091 > Stream.interruptWhen during a pending read finishes onAbort before the run returns
AssertionError: expected [] to deeply equal [ 'onAbort done' ]

 Test Files  1 failed (1)
      Tests  2 failed (2)

On this branch:

 RUN  v4.1.10 /Users/.../packages/ai-effect

 Test Files  1 passed (1)
      Tests  2 passed (2)

Manual test

1. On main, run pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-effect exec vitest run tests/chat.test.ts with this PR's test file. The 3 onAbort cases fail.
2. On this branch, run the same command. All 15 cases pass.
3. Build @tanstack/ai-effect, then run pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-e2e exec playwright test tests/effect-chat.spec.ts. The stop case returns { "aborts": 1 }.

How this PR makes testing easy. The 3 unit cases cover each way a Stream stops: Stream.take, an interrupt while the consumer is busy, and an interrupt while a read is pending. The E2E case runs AI.chat against aimock's slow [abort-test] story and returns the onAbort count as JSON. Its onAbort hook is synchronous on purpose: the unit tests already use an async onAbort (a 10 ms delay) and check that the interrupt waits for it. The E2E case covers the real provider path.

Linked issues

Closes #2091

Related: #2097. Core chat() runs no terminal hook when its consumer calls return() without aborting, and that is the core cause of the Stream.take case here. If #2097 is fixed in core, this PR still covers the pending-read case, where Effect does not await return().

Risk / rollback

Low. Only the teardown of toStream changes. One behavior changes on purpose: an interrupt now completes after the run's teardown, not before it. An iterable that ignores the abort while a read is pending now delays the interrupt. To undo, revert the PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Interrupting a chat stream now runs its abort middleware and waits for stream teardown to complete.
  • The abort hook runs once when a stream is stopped early or interrupted while processing or awaiting a chunk.

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Walkthrough

The Effect stream adapter now aborts its request before awaiting iterator teardown. Unit and end-to-end tests verify that stream termination invokes the chat middleware onAbort hook once.

Changes: Chat stream abort handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Abort and await iterator teardown packages/ai-effect/src/lift.ts, packages/ai-effect/tests/chat.test.ts, .changeset/ai-effect-interrupt-onabort.md	toStream acquires the async iterator and aborts the request before awaiting its optional return(). Tests cover Stream.take and fiber interruption, including interruption while a chunk is pending. The changeset records the patch release and teardown behavior.
Verify abort handling through the stop route testing/e2e/src/routes/api.effect-chat.ts, testing/e2e/tests/effect-chat.spec.ts	The stop route takes the first text chunk and returns the count of onAbort calls. The end-to-end test expects a successful response with { aborts: 1 }.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• TanStack/ai#2074: Adds the @tanstack/ai-effect package and the toStream, chat tests, and end-to-end route extended by this change.

Suggested reviewers: alemtuzlak, jherr

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to b3198

Resolve terminal-chunk teardown before merging: consumers stopping after successful completion can mark the run aborted and skip its final transcript save. Cleanup failures also bypass typed error handling.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check		The title names the main change: middleware onAbort now runs when a chat Stream is interrupted. The changeset shows a patch for @tanstack/ai-effect, which matches the scope in the title. The changes i…
Linked Issues check		Linked issue #2091 is the only active direct target. Its coding requirements are: (1) Stream.take, Fiber.interrupt, and Stream.interruptWhen must cancel the run and run middleware onAbort once; (2) th…
Out of Scope Changes check		Changed files at head, compared with the merge base c32f641: - packages/ai-effect/src/lift.ts: the toStream teardown fix for #2091. - packages/ai-effect/tests/chat.test.ts: unit cases that test the …
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It has the Changes, Checklist, and Release Impact sections, and it adds Root cause, Possible alternatives, Testing, and Risk/rollback sections.…

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The title names the main change: middleware onAbort now runs when a chat Stream is interrupted. The changeset shows a patch for @tanstack/ai-effect, which matches the scope in the title. The changes in lift.ts, the unit tests, and the E2E route all support this fix. The title is short, specific, and in the correct conventional-commit form.

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Linked issue #2091 is the only active direct target. Its coding requirements are: (1) Stream.take, Fiber.interrupt, and Stream.interruptWhen must cancel the run and run middleware onAbort once; (2) the interrupt must complete after teardown; (3) the stream:false (toEffect) path is excluded.

Code at head (packages/ai-effect/src/lift.ts, toStream) implements the proposed fix from #2091:

• The AbortController is created outside the release. One Effect.acquireRelease owns the iterator. Its release calls controller.abort() and then awaits created.return?.() inside Effect.promise. This orders the abort before return() [2091 req 1], and the release runs on consumer stop or interrupt. Effect.promise makes the release wait, so the interrupt completes after teardown [2091 req 2].
• Stream.fromAsyncIterable receives an iterable whose iterator has only next(). fromAsyncIterable therefore cannot call return() before the abort, and the pending-read case relies on the release alone [2091 req 1 and 2].
• toEffect is not changed, so the stream:false path matches the exclusion [2091 req 3].

Tests: the PR adds unit cases in packages/ai-effect/tests/chat.test.ts for Stream.take, an interrupt while the consumer handles a chunk, and an interrupt while a read is pending. It also adds an E2E case (effect-chat.spec.ts, route kind=stop) that counts onAbort calls. The author reports these pass at head and fail on main (for example, expected [] to have a length of 1). I did not execute these tests. This verdict relies on the code diff and the reported results.

The issue's acknowledged tradeoff applies. An iterable that ignores the abort during a pending next() now delays the interrupt. This follows the issue's proposed design, so it is not a coding gap.

Minor note, not a requirement failure: if return() rejects, Effect.promise turns the rejection into a defect during release. The previous release could not fail.

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Changed files at head, compared with the merge base c32f641:

• packages/ai-effect/src/lift.ts: the toStream teardown fix for #2091.
• packages/ai-effect/tests/chat.test.ts: unit cases that test the #2091 interrupt paths. These support the fix.
• testing/e2e/src/routes/api.effect-chat.ts and testing/e2e/tests/effect-chat.spec.ts: an E2E stop route and spec that check onAbort counts against aimock. These support the fix.
• .changeset/ai-effect-interrupt-onabort.md: a patch changeset for @tanstack/ai-effect. This is required for a published package change.

No change touches unrelated behavior, the toEffect path, or other packages. The PR does not change docs. The PR description states that the existing docs already describe the intended behavior, so no docs change is required by #2091.

The raw change summary lists these files. I did not run a full file list diff to confirm that no other file changed.

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Nitpick comments: 1

testing/e2e/src/routes/api.effect-chat.ts: 1

60-88: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Exercise asynchronous onAbort completion in the E2E test.

The synchronous counter can reach one before teardown completes. The E2E test can therefore miss an ordering regression. The unit tests cover this ordering with a fake adapter.

Make the hook asynchronous

-                    onAbort: () => {
+                    onAbort: async () => {
+                      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 10))
                       aborts++
                     },

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Review comment at @testing/e2e/src/routes/api.effect-chat.ts around lines 60 -
88:
Update the count-aborts middleware’s onAbort hook in the AI.chat stop route to
complete asynchronously before incrementing aborts, so the E2E test verifies
teardown waits for asynchronous hook completion.

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Review comments at @packages/ai-effect/src/lift.ts:
- Around line 56-59: Update the Stream.fromAsyncIterable adapter to coordinate
delivery of RUN_FINISHED with iterator teardown, allowing the generator’s
successful completion and onFinish hook to run before teardown can trigger
onAbort. Preserve abort behavior for runs that do not reach a successful
terminal chunk.
- Around line 50-54: Update the iterator teardown callback in the Effect.promise
flow around created.return so teardown failures are represented in the stream’s
typed error channel rather than becoming defects. Preserve awaiting cleanup and
ensure AIError failures remain catchable with Effect.catchTag('AIError').

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @testing/e2e/src/routes/api.effect-chat.ts:
- Around line 60-88: Update the count-aborts middleware’s onAbort hook in the
AI.chat stop route to complete asynchronously before incrementing aborts, so the
E2E test verifies teardown waits for asynchronous hook completion.

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