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Reliability

Timeouts, retries and partial failures, and how to make them safe.

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  1. 1 When a tool call times out, did it happen? A timed-out tool call may still have completed, so retrying safely needs the familiar distributed-systems tools: idempotency keys, durable state and verification. 22 Sep 2026, 1 min
  2. 2 Patterns for agent tool calls you can trust in production Most of what makes an agent safe to run happens at the tool call, not in the prompt: who the call acts for, how risky it is, what happens when it is retried, and whether anyone can see it afterwards. 19 Oct 2026, 9 min