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In-place mutation of persisted dicts leaves stale DB rows

Cluster 117120. Data as of 2026-10-26 12:29 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #117569 on 20 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items concern a bug where in-place mutations of stamped live dicts in the agent do not propagate correctly to state.db, leaving stale rows. The fix involves popping _db_persisted to ensure changes reach the database.

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#117569 fix(agent): in-place repairs of persisted message dicts reach state.db instead of leaving stale rows (#117120, salvage #117121)

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files: agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py, agent/message_sanitization.py, agent/micro_compaction.py, agent/turn_iteration_prep.py, agent/turn_recovery.py, tests/agent/test_message_sequence_repair.py, tests/agent/test_micro_compaction.py, tests/agent/test_tool_call_args_sanitizer.py, tests/agent/test_unicode_ascii_codec.py

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#117121 fix(agent): pop _db_persisted on in-place mutations of stamped live dicts · merged via another change → b8363f1, #117569

Closed issues · 1

Closed#117120In-place mutations of _db_persisted live dicts leave stale rows in state.db

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Merged PRs: #117569
Closed issues: 1
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Fix link checked: 20 Sep 2026

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