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The Agent That Mapped AbortError to an Empty List: A Take-Home Packet

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Agent-written tool adapters often convert a canceled or timed-out call into an empty array, which hides failure from every caller. Downstream list views then render "no results found," and operators lose the only signal that the tool never ran. This take-home packet asks a candidate to review that…

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  1. 2026-09-09 16:28 · DEV Community — AI
    The Agent That Mapped AbortError to an Empty List: A Take-Home Packet

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