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Refund iteration budget on API error for fallback chain

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #121543. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and PRs address a bug where API call errors incorrectly consume the subagent iteration budget, leaving the fallback chain with insufficient iterations. The proposed fix refunds the budget when a fallback activates after an API error.

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  • #121543 fix(agent): truncation retries grow the output budget (clamped to model limit); tools-available continuation; refund fallback call

    merged to main

    files: agent/context_compressor.py, agent/conversation_loop.py, agent/turn_context_compaction.py, agent/turn_empty_response.py, agent/turn_final_response.py, agent/turn_iteration_prep.py, agent/turn_truncation.py, tests/agent/test_empty_response_fallback_refund.py, tests/agent/test_partial_stream_continuation_prompt.py, tests/agent/test_run_agent.py, tests/agent/test_truncated_tool_call_boost.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 2 · other 1

  • #77354 fix(agent): refund iteration budget when fallback activates after API failure (#77305) · done elsewhere → 3ac22a3, #77305, #121543
  • #78275 fix(agent): refund iteration budget on API failure so fallback chain gets fair chance (#77305) · done elsewhere → #77305
  • #88867 fix(agent): roll back both iteration gates on empty-response fallback (#77305) · other → 3ac22a3, #121543, #77305
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#77305fix(delegation): failed API calls consume the subagent iteration budget, starving the fallback chain
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24 Sep 2026

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