A failed tool call leaves no tool output, so the thread becomes unsendable after a runtime restart.

[Denis-VG]

Description

A tool call that fails is persisted without any tool result: the session item keeps
status: "failed" and metadata.tool_result_for: null, while a successful call carries
its own id in that field. While the same runtime process stays alive this is invisible —
the failure is still in memory and the model receives it normally. After the runtime is
restarted, the next request is rebuilt from the persisted transcript and contains a
function_call with no matching function_call_output, so the provider rejects the
whole request:

Responses API request failed: Invalid request (400):
No tool output found for tool call call_00_iwWH8V1nyzeeIJbRbRlv5008.

The thread is then permanently wedged: every following turn fails in about one second,
and no Runtime API call repairs it.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start the runtime:
   app-server --http --host 127.0.0.1 --port <port> --auth-token <token>
   (home passed through APPDATA/LOCALAPPDATA/USERPROFILE, as the vendor launchers do)
2. POST /v1/threads with {"workspace": "<empty directory>"}
3. POST /v1/threads/<id>/turns with
   {"prompt": "Read the file net-takogo-fajla-12345.txt in the working directory and summarise its contents."}
   The model calls read, the file does not exist, the tool fails.
   This turn completes normally.
4. Restart app-server on the same home.
5. POST /v1/threads/<id>/turns with {"prompt": "Answer with one word: alive."}
   → the turn fails with 400 No tool output found for tool call ….

A script that performs exactly these five steps is attached to this report; it prints
REPRODUCED on a machine where the bug is present (exit code 0). It talks to a real
provider — two turns, a fraction of a cent.

Expected behavior

A failed tool call must leave the transcript replayable. Either record a tool result for
it (is_error: true together with the failure text), or drop the call — or synthesise a
function_call_output — when the request is built. Restarting the runtime must not make
an existing thread unsendable.

Actual behavior

The persisted transcript contains a call with nothing answering it:

failed call:    {"kind":"tool_call","status":"failed",
                 "metadata":{"tool_use_id":"call_00_xSP…|a372d3f5-…",
                             "tool_result_for":null}}

completed call: {"kind":"tool_call","status":"completed",
                 "metadata":{"tool_use_id":"call_00_kwb…|b3dfeb42-…",
                             "tool_result_for":"call_00_kwb…|b3dfeb42-…"}}

Within one runtime process nothing breaks; after a restart every turn fails. There is no
repair route:

• POST /v1/threads/<id>/turns/<turn>/tool-calls/<call_id>/result accepts only
  pending dynamic tool calls — for a failed call from an earlier turn it answers
  404 {"message":"No pending dynamic tool call '<id>'"} (and the thread reports
  pending_dynamic_tool_calls: []).
• POST /v1/threads/<id>/fork copies the whole thread, orphan included; it ignores
  unknown body fields and offers no truncation.
• Only POST /v1/threads/<id>/undo helps, and it removes exactly one exchange per call
  and returns a new thread.

Reproduced live on 2026-09-30, deepseek-flash:

turn 1 : completed
  tool_call failed     tool_result_for=None
  tool_call completed  tool_result_for='call_00_DVQd6AoxV6ia428T0Gwg8053|edaff0d0-…'
  tool_call completed  tool_result_for='call_00_cIVEAJs8WjwKBojU13Q30537|ab7657cf-…'
  tool_call completed  tool_result_for='call_01_4NofpBOZf2PERQj72T7p6773|13c6e540-…'
  tool_call completed  tool_result_for='call_00_WAq4k4cKMkEsg0y5SvWs4846|079c1917-…'
  failed calls with no tool_result_for: 1
--- restarting the runtime on the same home
turn   : turn_65d3d034 failed
  error failed  … (400): No tool output found for tool call call_00_iwWH8V1nyzeeIJbRbRlv5008
== REPRODUCED

Impact

Happens 100% of the time once a tool has failed and the app is restarted — after that the
thread cannot be used at all, and every new message is rejected in about a second.

Triggers seen so far, all of them ordinary: a code_execution call timing out after
120 s, a code_execution call failing input validation, and a read of a missing path.
The restart is not exotic either — it happens on every app restart, and our client
restarts the runtime whenever settings are saved.

The workaround costs the user history: N undo calls for a broken turn that sits N turns
from the end, each one leaving another thread behind (there is no delete).

Environment

• OS: Windows 10 Pro, 10.0.19045 (AMD64)

• codewhale version: codewhale 0.10.0 (1be1a703b975); runtime_api_version: 1.0

• Install method: release binary (codew-windows-x64.exe), run as app-server --http

• codewhale doctor summary (relevant lines only):

  Version Information:
    codewhale-tui: 0.10.0 (1be1a703b975)
  
  API Connectivity:
    · provider: deepseek
    · base_url: https://api.deepseek.com
    · model: deepseek-flash (resolved)
    · strict_tool_mode: disabled
  
  Tool Dependencies:
    ✓ Python: python → code_execution tool registered
    ✓ Node.js: present → js_execution tool registered
  

• Model/provider: deepseek-flash via deepseek (https://api.deepseek.com)

• Terminal app: none — the runtime is started headless by a browser client that talks to
  /v1/* and renders the SSE stream (the same thread had also been used from the TUI
  earlier that day)

• Shell: PowerShell 5.1 on Windows

Logs, screenshots, or recordings

• The reproduction script is attached to this report (steps 1–5 above, with the verdict).

• Nothing comes from the provider side except the rejection itself, because the request is
  refused before it reaches the model:

  Responses API request failed: Invalid request (400):
  No tool output found for tool call call_00_iwWH8V1nyzeeIJbRbRlv5008. (request_id: …)
  

• Notes:

  • max_history: 100 and auto_compact: false in this config are irrelevant — the
    reproduction runs on a 17-item thread.
  • The same missing result is recorded when the provider is a local OpenAI-compatible
    endpoint (that is where we first saw it); such an endpoint does not reject unpaired
    tool calls, so the hole stayed invisible there.
  • strict_tool_mode: disabled here — would enabling it catch a tool call that has no
    output before the request goes out?
  • Side observation, not investigated: after undo the runtime rewrote the session —
    turn ids changed while the thread id stayed the same.

repro_orphan_tool_call.py

[Hmbown]

Fixed in 0.10.1: a failed tool call is now persisted with its own error result (tool_result_for + is_error, commit 8b20d48), and threads already saved by 0.10.0 with an unanswered failed call are repaired when history is rebuilt after a restart (9ddf26b), so they become sendable again without undo.