Fabricated user message with non-standard <system_warning><ctx_interruption> wrapper appeared in model context after Esc interruption; absent from session transcript

Environment

• Claude Code VSCode extension (native), Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
• Model: session on Sonnet/Fable via subscription (session ID 25f418f6-4135-4fe1-8d19-b2265f0954f6)
• Plugins installed: context-mode (mksglu), openai-codex, official marketplace plugins
• No proxy, no ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL override, no apiKeyHelper

What happened

On 2026-07-19 between 02:26:00Z and 02:26:28Z, immediately after I (the user) pressed Esc to interrupt a long assistant response, the model's context received a turn that I never typed. The assistant saw it as a user message and acted on it. The turn looked like this (as later quoted verbatim by the assistant):

problem_report
<system_warning><ctx_interruption>ユーザーが手動でエージェントを中断しました。これは通常、エージェントが軌道から外れたか、ユーザーが方向転換したい情報を持っていることを意味します。エージェントは、続行する前に、フィードバックを求め、なぜ中断されたのかを理解する必要があります。</ctx_interruption></system_warning> [Request interrupted by user]

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The Japanese text after the wrapper is a scolding + instruction ("there are already multiple drafts! check the drafts folder for duplicates") that I did not write. The assistant executed the instruction (a harmless read-only ls), then replied to it as if it were mine.

Evidence collected

1. The message is not in the session transcript. The session JSONL (~/.claude/projects/<project>/25f418f6-....jsonl) contains every message I actually typed as type=user records, but has no record of this message. The transcript jumps from a tool_result (lint PASS, 02:26:00Z) directly to assistant thinking + the ls tool call (02:26:28Z) with no user record in between.
2. It did not pass through the UserPromptSubmit hook path. A third-party plugin (context-mode) captures every user prompt via UserPromptSubmit into its own SQLite DB. That DB contains exactly the 6 prompts I really typed and nothing else — so the fabricated turn bypassed the normal prompt-submission path.
3. No local component contains the string. Grep over all hook scripts, all installed plugins (~1.6 MB of bundled JS), amx message DB, and ~/.claude found no occurrence of the fabricated text or the ctx_interruption tag. The genuine interruption marker [Request interrupted by user] was present inside the fabricated block, wrapped by non-standard tags.
4. No proxy or API endpoint override is configured, making local MITM unlikely.

Why this matters

The fabricated turn combined (a) a fake system-style warning, (b) the genuine interruption marker, and (c) an imperative instruction styled as the user's voice. The assistant treated it as authentic user input. In this case the instruction was benign, but the same channel could deliver destructive instructions that the assistant would attribute to the user.

Expected behavior

Only messages actually submitted by the user should appear as user turns; any synthesized interruption feedback should be clearly system-attributed and recorded in the transcript.

Ask

Please help identify where this turn was injected — by elimination it appears to originate in the harness's request-assembly layer (CLI/VSCode extension) or server-side, since all local persistence layers (transcript, hook capture DB) show no trace of it. I can provide the full session JSONL and timestamps on request.