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Handling placeholder responses after tool calls

Cluster 42503 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
1open PR
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Known?
Yes. 4 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.
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Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

These issues and PRs address a bug where empty or progress-only assistant responses following tool calls are incorrectly treated as final answers, with fixes focused on detecting such responses and nudging the model to continue.

Open issues1

  • Issue#42503Bug: post-tool empty or progress-only assistant turns can be treated as final answers

Open PRs1

  • PR#42566fix(agent): detect placeholder responses after tool calls and nudge m…

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: other 2

  • #42596 fix(agent): nudge model after progress-only responses post-tool-call (#42503) · other
  • #42717 fix(agent): detect and nudge post-tool placeholder responses · other
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  • Pairwise link density 0.50: 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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