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Blocked tools retrying until timeout bug fix

Cluster 96579 · agent. Data as of

3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
2open PRs
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. see the attempts below.
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1 issue and 2 PRs.

A guardrail that halts on repeated tool failures was not counting blocked tool calls, allowing structurally-blocked tools to retry indefinitely until the turn timed out. The fix ensures blocked tool results are included in the failure counter.

Open issues1

  • Issue#96579same_tool_failure_halt guardrail excludes blocked=True results, letting a structurally-blocked tool retry until the turn times out

Open PRs2

  • PR#96598fix(agent): stop blocked tools from retrying until timeout
  • PR#96823fix(agent): count blocked tool calls in guardrail failure counter (#96579)
How this cluster was grouped
  • 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(structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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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