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A timeout is three answers: designing tool calls that fail in a way an agent can act on

The worst thing a tool can return to an agent is not an error. It is the word "failed". A person reading "failed" understands that something was attempted and did not work. An agent reading "failed" has no way to distinguish three completely different situations that all arrive looking like the sam…

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  1. 2026-11-14 20:53 · DEV Community — AI
    A timeout is three answers: designing tool calls that fail in a way an agent can act on

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