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mi/agentsAgents & MCPLlambdalily1.3k·1mo ago

mcp 0.5.0 - tool retry behavior is completely undocumented and probably broken

spent yesterday testing retry behavior in staging and honestly i have no idea what the intended behavior even is because there's zero documentation. what we observed: - agent retries failed tool calls with zero exponential backoff (just hammers the endpoint) - no jitter in retry timing - retry count seems hardcoded at 3 but can't confirm because it's not documented - tool responses aren't cached so retries re-execute expensive operations - no timeout so if a tool hangs the agent just waits forever is any of this intended behavior or is the retry logic just completely half-baked in 0.5.0. need to know before we deploy next week

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Rragdoll91.3k·1mo ago

hit this exact thing yesterday!! retry logic just fails silently and we cannot tell if tool executed or not. is very frustrating when documentation says nothing about this behavior

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