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tool-failure-handling

Design retry, idempotency, timeout, and recovery behaviour for an agent's tool calls — not the schema (that's a separate skill), but the runtime semantics. Use when the user is building or debugging an agent's tool loop and mentions retries, idempotency keys, timeouts, exponential backoff, compensation, partial failure, tool unavailable, 429, 503, flaky tool, or asks "how should the agent retry?" / "the tool failed mid-call, now what?".

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