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Codex agent incomplete-response edge cases and stalls

Cluster 17248 · agent. Data as of

1 open item. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

0open issues
1open PR
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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Still open
0 issues and 1 PR.

These issues and fixes concern multiple related failure modes in codex_responses mode: misclassified finish_reason values, reasoning-only turns causing stalls or budget exhaustion, content-filter responses being retried instead of treated as refusals, empty final responses leaving the agent or UI in a broken state, and insufficient deduplication/capping of incomplete-continuation loops.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs1

  • PR#23505fix: surface exhausted empty model responses

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: closed without comment 1

  • #17331 fix(agent): initialize assistant_msg before loop to prevent UnboundLocalError (#17248) · closed without comment
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#17248[Bug]: Empty final response after tool calls can hit unbound assistant_msg path
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: 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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