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fix(ai): return tool failures to the model instead of ending the run - #914
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…rtials (#903) Found running the single agent end to end against a local stack. A tool that failed ended the whole pass. Maple's tool handlers declared `MapleToolFailure` as the tool's failure type, and the engine ends the run on a declared failure — that is how an approval-gated proposal becomes the turn's last word — so a rejected `run_sql` on the first call killed the investigation before it had read anything. Tool errors are now returned as the call's text and the model rewrites the call; only the approval gate still fails the run. A close-out's report landed as `diagnosed`. Whatever the close-out files is a partial by construction, so `SubmitDiagnosisRequest` carries `partial` and the service routes it to the inconclusive writer: low confidence, no severity, no `diagnosed_at`, no issue-side writes. A model stream that stalls now fails after two minutes without a chunk. One did, mid-sentence, on the second run; the engine's ten-minute rail never interrupted it, and the investigation sat until the 15-minute stale sweep marked it failed with nothing filed. Failing the stream hands the run to the close-out instead. Empty text deltas are dropped from the session log. One provider streamed one per reasoning token, which put two thousand empty events into a Durable Object's SQLite in a minute — and the log is what every reconnect replays.
Ordinary Maple tools now declare `failureMode: "return"`: a rejected query or a dead tool reaches the model as a failed tool result it can rewrite, and the engine records a real `ToolCallFailed` with `failure_handling: returned-to-model`. Gated tools keep `"error"`, so a proposal still ends the run and reaches the approval card. This replaces the previous workaround of answering failures as success text, which hid them from the chat UI (no error state) and from the engine's failure accounting. Returned failures count toward `repeatedFailureLimit`, so it goes from 3 to 5: rewriting a rejected query a few times is normal, and one batch can fail up to `TOOL_CONCURRENCY` calls at once. Also stops a reported tool error being wrapped twice as "Tool failed: <message>" by catching executor defects before the isError check. A new test drives the real engine with a scripted model through `runChatTurn` to pin both paths.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change updates tool-failure routing, increases the repeated-failure limit, adds partial diagnosis close-outs, filters empty text deltas, and adds a two-minute idle timeout for model streams. ChangesChat run reliability
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AutonomousPass
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AutonomousPass->>turnRunner: start close-out run
turnRunner->>runChatTurn: set closeOut to true
runChatTurn->>InvestigationService: submit partial diagnosis
InvestigationService-->>runChatTurn: persist inconclusive investigation
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A canceled or timed-out chat turn can continue with another model call instead of stopping. Preserve interruption before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@packages/backend/src/services/errors/InvestigationService.ts`:
- Around line 619-628: Update the write path used by submitDiagnosis and
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Guard partial writes against completed diagnoses.
submitDiagnosis reads the row before calling writeInconclusive. The writer updates by organization and ID only, so it can overwrite a diagnosis written between those operations. Add eq(investigations.status, "investigating") to the WHERE clause. If the update matches no row, the existing reload will return the completed diagnosis.
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619 - 628, Update the write path used by submitDiagnosis and
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In `@apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/llm-tools.ts`:
- Line 165: Update the Effect.catchCause handler around executor.execute so
interruption-only causes are re-raised with Effect.failCause(cause), preserving
cancellation and timeout behavior. Only convert typed failures and defects
through summarizeToolFailure into MapleToolFailure, while retaining the existing
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| executor.execute(tenant, definition.name, params, options.surface ?? "chat").pipe( | ||
| // A tool that dies (unknown tool, tenant error) fails like one that reported an error. | ||
| // Caught before the `flatMap`, so a reported error is not wrapped a second time. | ||
| Effect.catchCause((cause) => fail(`Tool failed: ${summarizeToolFailure(cause)}`)), |
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In Effect TypeScript, Effect.catchCause (known as Effect.catchAllCause in v3) is a mechanism for handling the complete failure Cause, which includes typed failures, unexpected defects, and fiber interruptions [1][2]. Interruption Semantics and catchCause Interruption is represented within the Cause data type as an Interrupt reason, which contains the FiberId of the interrupted fiber [3][4][5]. When an Effect is interrupted, it produces a Cause that includes this interruption status [3][4]. Because Effect.catchCause allows you to inspect the entire Cause, it permits the handling of interruptions [1][3]. If you use this operator to recover from a failure, you are essentially intercepting the signal that would otherwise propagate the interruption [1][6]. Key Considerations 1. Naming: In modern Effect (v4+), the operator is named Effect.catchCause. It replaces the v3 name Effect.catchAllCause [2]. 2. Scope: Because it catches all possible causes (including interruptions and defects), it should be used with caution [1][7]. It is generally recommended to use typed recovery operators (like Effect.catch or Effect.catchTag) for domain-specific errors and reserve Effect.catchCause for application boundaries or intentional recovery from unexpected states [1][7]. 3. Handling Interruptions: When you catch a Cause containing an interruption, the fiber is technically "recovered" by your handler [1]. If you intend to propagate the interruption after performing some cleanup, you should re-fail with the original cause (e.g., using Effect.failCause(cause)) to ensure the runtime is aware that the fiber was meant to be interrupted [1][6]. 4. Inspection: You can use the Cause module's guards, such as Cause.hasInterrupts or Cause.isInterruptReason, to specifically identify if an interruption has occurred within the caught Cause [3][4][5]. For detailed usage, refer to the Cause data type documentation, which explains how to inspect and pattern match on the various components of a failure, including interruptions [3][4][8].
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- 3: https://effect.website/docs/v4/data-types/cause
- 4: https://effect.website/docs/data-types/cause/
- 5: https://effect.website/docs/v3/api/effect/Cause
- 6: https://effect.website/docs/v4/error-management/sandboxing
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In the Effect AI ecosystem, the failureMode: "return" configuration is designed to allow language models to receive and potentially correct tool execution errors by surfacing them as typed tool results rather than letting them propagate as fatal stream errors [1][2]. Regarding your query about failureMode: "return" and ToolCallFailed: 1. Role of failureMode: "return": When a tool is declared with failureMode: "return", errors occurring during the tool's handler execution are captured and returned to the model as a tool result [2]. This allows the model to "see" the failure, enabling self-correction or alternative action paths without the entire runtime effect failing [1][3]. 2. ToolCallFailed and Parameter Validation: Historically, certain failures—specifically tool-call parameter decoding failures—could bypass the failureMode gate, causing a fatal error in the streamText stream even when "return" was configured [4][5]. However, subsequent updates (such as those addressed in PRs #6432 and #7588) rectified this [6][5]. Now, parameter decode failures are routed through the failureMode logic [6]. When configured with "return", these failures are caught and emitted as tool results (marked with isFailure: true and including the encoded AiError), allowing the agent to handle the failure gracefully [6][5]. 3. Implementation: When using tools (such as MCP tools or custom Tool.make declarations), failureMode: "return" ensures that the tool's failure schema (or an AiError) is returned to the execution runtime as a tool output [3][2]. This prevents the "fatal error" path and enables the orchestration logic to treat the failed tool call as a piece of data to be interpreted by the model, rather than an unrecoverable system exception [1][5]. If you are encountering a ToolCallFailed state unexpectedly, ensure you are on a version of the Effect AI libraries that includes these fixes (specifically those post-dating the fixes for issues #6335 and #7416) [4][6]. In current versions, failureMode: "return" should consistently route these errors back to the model as failed tool results [6].
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- 1: https://cephalochromoscope.net/e0ce4d97-3c25-460c-a7b1-2e6f8de14a74
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- 3: https://cephalochromoscope.net/158bb8a7-456e-4927-b992-f076dd6f3db7
- 4: GitHub issue 6335 in Effect-TS/effect (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: GitHub pull request 6432 in Effect-TS/effect (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: GitHub pull request 7588 in Effect-TS/effect (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
Preserve interruption when normalizing executor failures.
Effect.catchCause also catches interruption causes from executor.execute. A cancellation or timeout can become MapleToolFailure. Since ordinary tools use failureMode: "return", the engine can return that failure to the model and continue the loop.
Re-raise interruption-only causes with Effect.failCause(cause). Normalize only typed failures and defects.
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In `@apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/llm-tools.ts` at line 165, Update the Effect.catchCause
handler around executor.execute so interruption-only causes are re-raised with
Effect.failCause(cause), preserving cancellation and timeout behavior. Only
convert typed failures and defects through summarizeToolFailure into
MapleToolFailure, while retaining the existing “Tool failed” normalization for
non-interruption causes.
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Stacked on #913 (effect-agent beta.85). Merge that first; this PR retargets to
mainwhen its base branch is deleted.Why
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main, every Maple tool declares a typed failure with the defaultfailureMode: "error", so any failed tool call ends the whole engine run. A single rejectedrun_sqlkills a chat turn or an investigation pass.#903 fixed this, but it merged into
inv/04-drop-lane-schemaafter that stack's base had already landed, so it never reachedmain. This PR brings #903 across (cherry-picked unchanged as its own commit) and then replaces its tool-failure workaround with the engine's native mechanism.What changed
failureMode: "return".failureMode: "return". A failed call reaches the model as a failed tool result, and the engine emits a realToolCallFailedwitheffect_agent.tool.failure_handling = returned-to-model. fix(ai): keep a pass alive through tool errors, file close-outs as partials #903 returned errors as success text, which lost the chat UI's error state and hid failures from the engine."error", so a proposal still ends the run and reaches the approval card.IDENTICAL_CALL_LIMIT's docs always described.REPEATED_TOOL_CALLSgoes from 3 to 5. Returned failures count toward the engine'srepeatedFailureLimit: rewriting a rejected query a few times is normal, and one batch can fail up toTOOL_CONCURRENCY(4) calls at once.Tool failed: SQL rejected ...). Executor defects are now caught before theisErrorcheck.submit_diagnosisis unchanged and still propagates, so a failed submit goes through the existing close-out path.Reviewer notes
main).run-tool-failures.test.tsdrives the real engine throughrunChatTurnwith a scripted model:isFailure: true, the model is called again, and the turn endsstopwith a red tool result.mainand on fix(ai): keep a pass alive through tool errors, file close-outs as partials #903's approach.Verification
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