When an agent's tool call times out, park it instead of retrying
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An agent calls a tool that moves money or sends a message. The request goes out. Then nothing comes back: a gateway timeout, a dropped connection, a worker that died mid response. From the agent's seat, that looks like a failure. Most agent loops treat a failure as a reason to try again. That is th…
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- 2026-10-13 19:06 · DEV Community — AI
When an agent's tool call times out, park it instead of retrying