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Agent tool-call sanitization and delegate task limits

Cluster 30405 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
1open PR
8items grouped
Known?
Yes. 8 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 6 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 1 PR.

These issues and PRs address malformed or empty tool_call payloads causing API errors across providers, and problems with delegate_task silently truncating batch tasks beyond concurrency limits without surfacing the truncation to the model.

Open issues1

  • Issue#30405[Bug]: Truncated delegate_task is unkown to the model.

Open PRs1

  • PR#31615fix(agent): normalize empty tool-call content for strict chat APIs

6 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 2 · done elsewhere 1 · stale or abandoned 1 · other 2

  • #12737 fix(agent): normalize empty assistant content to None for Anthropic compatibility · other
  • #29168 fix(agent): merge consecutive assistant tool_calls before orphan-tool drop (#29148) · merged via another change → cbe397e, #55603, #29148, #49147, #49162, #34510
  • #30472 fix(agent): surface delegate_task truncation to the model and document the per-turn cap · stale or abandoned
  • #64345 fix(sanitize): drop tool_calls key when dedup removes all calls · merged via another change → #86654, #77944, #72591
  • #64843 fix(agent): prevent empty tool_calls arrays to fix DeepSeek V4 HTTP 400 errors · done elsewhere → #86654, #64345, #77944, #72591
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  • #128991 fix(agent): return paired errors for capped delegate calls · other
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