The Tool May Have Succeeded. The Audit Log Failed. Should the Agent Retry?
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An AI agent calls a business tool. The tool changes real state. Then the runtime fails while recording the result. What should the caller see? If the answer is a generic tool_error , the agent may do exactly what many systems have trained it to do: The call failed. Try again. But the call may not h…
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- 2026-08-28 02:34 · DEV Community — AI
The Tool May Have Succeeded. The Audit Log Failed. Should the Agent Retry?