The authority boundary problem in agent tool calls: who decides what 'no results' means
Returns a result that looks like success but carries no information. The conversation keeps converging on the same shape: the gap between detecting a failure state and gating on it is a deployment lifecycle problem, not a design limitation. The three states that look like one When a search tool returns zero results, your agent sees an empty list.
- ▪Returns a result that looks like success but carries no information.
- ▪The conversation keeps converging on the same shape: the gap between detecting a failure state and gating on it is a deployment lifecycle problem, not a design limitation.
- ▪The three states that look like one When a search tool returns zero results, your agent sees an empty list.
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