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Agent budget exhaustion error handling and visibility

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #50009. Check it covers your case.

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These items address cases where exhausting an iteration budget causes silent failures, dropped responses, or process termination. The work involves guarding cleanup chains and surfacing budget-related failures more visibly.

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  • #50009 fix(agent): guard finalize_turn cleanup chain so it never drops the response

    merged to main

    files: agent/turn_finalizer.py, tests/agent/test_turn_finalizer_cleanup_guard.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: partial fix 2 · duplicate 1

  • #8095 fix: surface max-iterations summary failures at ERROR level (closes #8049) · partial fix → #8049, #50009
  • #49309 fix(agent): make budget exhaustion visibly incomplete · partial fix → #8049, #50009
  • #50059 fix(agent): guard finalize_turn cleanup chain so it never drops the response · duplicate → #50009, #8049, #43057, #46183
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#8049run_conversation silently kills the Python process when iteration budget is exhausted
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3 PRs closed without merging
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21 Jun 2026

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