When a tool call times out, how does your agent know whether it actually happened?
Timeouts are the case I keep seeing underhandled in agent setups. The agent calls a write tool, the call times out, and nobody knows whether the email went, the refund posted, or the record changed. The default in most loops is to retry, which is fine for reads and risky for writes. The options I c…
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- 2026-10-05 04:47 · r/AI_Agents
When a tool call times out, how does your agent know whether it actually happened?