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A new arXiv paper measures the corrective value of a failed tool call in an agent transcript and finds it negative on every small model tested: repeat probability rises from 0.06 to 0.54. Clean-context retry was the worst harness tested; paraphrasing the failure removed 76% of the effect for free.
August 26, 2026 · 13 min read
GitHub's CTO says a client-side retry loop in Copilot increased traffic during recovery from the August 17 outage, which ran 7 hours 47 minutes after a Central US data center component failed to scale with peak throughput. GitHub is now adding retry budgets across service-to-service calls. Your agent fleet has none.
August 22, 2026 · 15 min read