Go SDK: client.Session panics with nil pointer on disconnect

[sharmaz11]

Bug Report

Environment:

• SDK: Go
• Go version: 1.22
• SDK version: 0.1.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a client: c := copilot.NewClient(config)
2. Create session: s, _ := c.Session.Create(ctx, nil)
3. Disconnect the underlying transport mid-session
4. Call s.Send(msg)
5. Panic: nil pointer dereference at go/session.go:142

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Investigation Findings

I investigated the reported behavior — a nil pointer dereference panic when calling Send() after transport disconnection in the Go SDK.

What I looked at

• go/session.go — Send() (line 285) and the newSession() constructor (line 246)
• go/internal/jsonrpc2/jsonrpc2.go — Client.Request() and sendMessage()
• go/internal/jsonrpc2/frame.go — headerWriter.Write()

What I found

The described panic does not match the actual code behavior:

1. s.client is never nil. newSession() always receives a *jsonrpc2.Client and assigns it directly. There is no code path that sets it to nil.

2. Disconnected transport returns an error, not a panic. When the underlying process exits, processDone is closed and Client.Request() returns "process exited unexpectedly". When the client is stopped, it returns "client stopped". When a write to a disconnected stream fails, sendMessage() propagates the I/O error. None of these paths panic.

3. The panic location doesn't match Send(). The reported panic at session.go:142 points to canvasClientSessionAdapter.Close() — specifically the line if request == nil {. This function is entirely unrelated to Send().

4. The call signature is wrong. The Send() method signature is Send(ctx context.Context, options MessageOptions) (string, error), but the report calls it as s.Send(msg) — which would not compile.

Conclusion

The Go SDK handles transport disconnection gracefully by returning errors from Send() rather than panicking. The described scenario — nil pointer panic at line 142 when calling Send() after disconnect — does not reproduce against the current codebase and contains inconsistencies (wrong line, wrong call signature, unrelated code location).

This has been reclassified as a question: if you are observing a panic in practice, please share a minimal reproducer with the exact Go SDK version and stack trace. The expected behavior on transport disconnect is an error return from Send(), not a panic.

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[sharmaz11]

Closing — test issue for security research, no action needed.