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Stale-watchdog abort issues with hung sockets

Cluster 85252 · cron. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #86645 on 15 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #86645. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These items concern the stale-watchdog mechanism failing to effectively abort hung sockets in the non-streaming inline API call path, and attempts to bound or fix that behavior. The members share a focused theme around timeout enforcement for direct API calls.

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  • #86645 fix(agent): bound hung inline API calls when abort cannot kill the socket (salvage #85283)

    merged to main

    files: agent/agent_runtime_helpers.py, agent/chat_completion_helpers.py, tests/cron/test_cron_direct_api_call_watchdog.py, tests/run_agent/test_create_openai_client_reuse.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #85284 fix(cron): stale-watchdog aborts hung sockets in direct_api_call path · merged via another change → #85283, #86645, #29507, #85252
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#85252cron: stale-watchdog abort ineffective on hung sockets in non-streaming inline path (direct_api_call) — stalls exceed threshold by 5-11x
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  • 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(structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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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1 PR closed without merging
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15 Aug 2026

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