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Disabled tools causing retry loops and misleading guidance

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 108663 · agent

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4 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
3open PRs
6items grouped
Known?
Yes. 6 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 3 PRs.

These issues and fixes concern tools that are disabled (by platform or toolset) being incorrectly described as directly callable, which triggers failed-retry guardrail loops. The work focuses on distinguishing disabled toolsets from lookup misses and scoping direct-call guidance appropriately.

Open issues1

  • Issue#108663tool_describe/tool_call say 'call it directly' for a tool disabled on this platform, causing a failed-retry guardrail loop

Open PRs3

  • PR#108673fix(tools): stop disabled tools from triggering retry loops
  • PR#122717fix(tools): tell disabled-toolset names apart from directly-listed ones in tool_describe/tool_call
  • PR#135080fix(tools): report session-scoped unavailability instead of "call it directly"

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1 · superseded by another PR 1

  • #108670 fix(tools): scope direct-call guidance to session · done elsewhere → 590af66, #122717, #108663, #108670
  • #108900 fix(tools): tool_describe/tool_call distinguish disabled toolsets from lookup misses · superseded by another PR → #108670, #108663
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  • Pairwise link density 0.33: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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