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Paper basis

Fugu report (arXiv:2606.21228 §3) / Fugu-Ultra Conductor: the Conductor routes a tool loop's continuation back to the agent that emitted the tool call — when the client executes the tool and sends results back, the follow-up goes to the same worker, not a freshly selected one.

Gap

A follow-up POST /v1/chat/completions whose messages contain the assistant tool_calls message plus role: "tool" results was routed like any new request under a virtual selector (orchestrator/free, orchestrator/auto, contextual-orchestrator), so a different provider/model could receive tool results for calls it never emitted — an id-format/behavior mismatch across NIM/OpenRouter/OpenCode models, and a real failure mode for the noema and opencode reviewers (org CI) that use tools through this gateway.

Design

  • TaskOrchestrator keeps a new bounded, thread-safe tool_loop_memory map (tool_call_id -> emitting agent id), guarded by the existing _evidence_lock. Bound is TOOL_LOOP_MEMORY_MAX_ENTRIES = 512 (LRU eviction), configurable via the new tool_loop_memory_max_entries constructor argument — a memory bound (mirrors EVIDENCE_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES), not a product limit; no TTL is layered on since the LRU bound is sufficient.
  • _record_tool_loop_agents records an entry whenever a served response carries tool_calls, wired into three call sites: proxy_completion's single-agent passthrough (both the explicit-model early return and the virtual-model failover loop), route_once, and conduct's worker step.
  • _apply_tool_loop_route(candidates, messages) is the shared reorder: given an already fully constraint-filtered candidate list (virtual selector, free/ZDR scope, circuit-breaker state, provider exclusions), it moves the remembered emitting agent to the front when that agent is still present in candidates, otherwise it leaves the order untouched and reports a fallback. Because it only reorders within an already-filtered set:
    • an explicit concrete model is never affected (those call sites either never reach this helper, or the candidate list is already a single pinned agent);
    • orchestrator/free follow-ups can never return to a non-free emitting agent (a non-free agent is simply absent from the free-filtered candidate list);
    • a circuit-open emitting agent is skipped and the normal order is used instead.
  • Evidence: served responses' orchestration extension now carries tool_loop_route ("emitting_agent" or "fallback") and tool_loop_agent_id. For the passthrough path this is attached to the raw provider response's orchestration dict (the same convention _orchestrated_provider_completion already uses for its route evidence); for route_once/conduct it flows through chat_completion_response/chat_completion_chunks's existing orchestration dict.

Deliberately left out

  • The Responses API's structured-synthesis path (_orchestrated_provider_completion, used by /v1/responses and response_format-only chat passthrough) is not wired into tool_loop_memory — its request/response shapes differ enough (Responses function_call/call_id vs. chat tool_calls/id) that plumbing it in safely needs its own pass. Documented as a follow-up in docs/architecture.md and the gap-baseline entry.
  • No sqlite/db persistence — this is in-memory only, consistent with the rest of the routing/circuit-breaker state in TaskOrchestrator.
  • No separate live-provider SSE tool-call assembly: streaming to the client (chat_completion_chunks, _chat_response_sse_chunks) always wraps an already-fully-computed result, so the recording points above already cover the streaming case.

Tests

New tests in tests/test_passthrough_provider_failover.py (nearest existing file covering passthrough failover/ordering):

  • test_tool_loop_follow_up_returns_to_the_emitting_agent — first request served by the lower-priority agent (due to a transient failure on the top-ranked one) with tool_calls; the follow-up with the tool result routes straight to the emitting agent, skipping the top-ranked one.
  • test_tool_loop_falls_back_when_emitting_agent_circuit_is_open — same setup, but the emitting agent's circuit is forced open before the follow-up; routing falls back to the normal order and evidence says "fallback".
  • test_explicit_concrete_model_ignores_tool_loop_memory — a follow-up naming the non-emitting agent's own concrete model id goes straight to that model, memory is not consulted, and no orchestration key is added.
  • test_free_model_follow_up_never_routes_to_a_non_free_emitting_agent — the emitting agent was a paid agent; the orchestrator/free follow-up never returns to it (constraint precedence over tool-loop memory).
  • test_tool_loop_memory_evicts_the_oldest_entry_past_its_bound — with tool_loop_memory_max_entries=1, a second recorded call evicts the first (LRU, not a growing log).

Verification

  • python -m pytest tests/test_api_contract.py tests/test_self_check.py tests/test_passthrough_provider_failover.py tests/test_tool_execution_fallback.py -q → 187 passed, 4 failed — all 4 are the known local-only test_sdk_passthrough_unknown_outcome_never_replays / test_sdk_http_retry_respects_explicit_tool_stop[*] failures asserting the locked openai SDK 2.54.0 while this machine has 2.44.0 installed; unrelated to this change.
  • python -m interrogate -v contextual_orchestrator/ → 100% docstring coverage (687/687), unchanged.
  • Full python -m pytest tests -q --ignore=tests/fuzz (minus the two known SDK-version cases above) → 3668 passed, 1 skipped, 1 failed (test_privacy_policy_analysis.py::test_pinned_mcp_client_renders_and_closes_camoufox_tab, an unrelated local mcp package version mismatch — that test file does not import orchestrator.py's routing code).

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    • 라우팅 결과와 선택된 에이전트 정보가 응답 메타데이터에 표시됩니다.
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    • 도구 루프 라우팅 동작과 예외 조건을 관련 기술 문서에 추가했습니다.

The Fugu report's Conductor (arXiv:2606.21228 S3; Fugu-Ultra) routes a tool
loop's continuation back to the agent that emitted the tool call. This
gateway previously ranked a follow-up carrying role:"tool" results like any
new request under a virtual selector, so a different provider/model could
receive tool results for calls it never emitted.

TaskOrchestrator now keeps a bounded, thread-safe tool_loop_memory map
(tool_call_id -> emitting agent id, LRU-bounded by
tool_loop_memory_max_entries, default 512) recorded whenever a served
response carries tool_calls on proxy_completion's single-agent passthrough,
route_once, and conduct's worker step. _apply_tool_loop_route moves a
follow-up's remembered emitting agent to the front of the already-filtered
candidate order only when it is still eligible under the request's own
constraints (explicit concrete model is never overridden; free/ZDR scope and
circuit-breaker state are re-checked), falling back to the normal order
otherwise. Served responses carry orchestration.tool_loop_route
("emitting_agent"/"fallback") and orchestration.tool_loop_agent_id as
evidence.

The Responses API's structured-synthesis path is not yet wired into this map
and remains a follow-up.

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TaskOrchestrator가 tool 호출 발신 에이전트를 제한된 LRU 메모리에 저장합니다. 후속 role: "tool" 요청은 적격한 발신 에이전트를 우선 사용하고, 불가능하면 기존 후보 순서를 유지합니다. 라우팅 근거가 응답 메타데이터에 추가됩니다.

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Tool-loop 라우팅

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메모리와 라우팅 계약
contextual_orchestrator/orchestrator.py
tool_call_id와 발신 에이전트 ID를 연결하는 최대 512개 LRU 메모리와 생성자 설정을 추가했습니다. 후속 tool 메시지에서 ID를 추출하고, 적격 후보 안에서 발신 에이전트를 우선 배치합니다.
오케스트레이션 경로 통합
contextual_orchestrator/orchestrator.py
단일 에이전트 passthrough, pool route, realtime worker 경로에서 tool 호출을 기록합니다. 후속 라우팅의 tool_loop_routetool_loop_agent_id를 orchestration 메타데이터에 병합합니다.
검증과 문서화
tests/test_passthrough_provider_failover.py, CHANGELOG.d/tool-loop-emitting-agent-routing.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/doctoring/TOOL_EXECUTION_FALLBACKS.md, docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md
발신 에이전트 복귀, 회로 차단기 폴백, 명시적 모델 우선, FREE 모델 제약, LRU 만료를 검증합니다. Responses API의 _orchestrated_provider_completion 경로가 아직 연결되지 않았음을 문서화합니다.

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  participant Client
  participant TaskOrchestrator
  participant Provider
  Client->>TaskOrchestrator: tool 호출 요청
  TaskOrchestrator->>Provider: 후보 중 emitting agent 호출
  Provider-->>TaskOrchestrator: tool_calls 응답
  TaskOrchestrator->>TaskOrchestrator: tool_call_id와 agent ID 저장
  Client->>TaskOrchestrator: role: "tool" 결과 후속 요청
  TaskOrchestrator->>Provider: 기억된 agent 우선 호출
  Provider-->>Client: 후속 응답과 orchestration 증거
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Raise the default LRU bound from 512 to 4096 entries and document why:
parallel org CI review lanes each hold several tool call ids in flight, and
an early eviction silently degrades a live loop to fallback routing.

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…ence

An explicit concrete model is never re-ranked, so route_once must not emit
tool_loop_route/tool_loop_agent_id for it either; only virtual selectors
consult the emitting-agent memory. Adds a route_once contract test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…into tool_loop_memory

_orchestrated_provider_completion (serving /v1/responses and
response_format-only chat passthrough) was not wired into the
tool-loop-emitting-agent routing added for proxy_completion/route_once/
conduct: a served Responses function_call (or a response_format-only
chat tool_calls) never got remembered, so a follow-up carrying the
result could still land on a freshly ranked candidate instead of the
agent that emitted the call.

Generalize recording to both surfaces (a new _responses_output_tool_calls
adapts a Responses function_call's call_id into the same {"id": ...}
shape _record_tool_loop_agents already reads from chat tool_calls), and
apply _apply_tool_loop_route's reorder to the synthesis candidate list
for virtual selectors, attaching tool_loop_route/tool_loop_agent_id
evidence to the orchestration object this path already emits. No lookup
changes were needed on the Responses surface: its input is already
converted to chat-shaped messages (function_call_output -> role: "tool" /
tool_call_id) before candidate selection runs, so the existing chat
lookup covers it unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t chat

proxy_completion's single-agent explicit-model passthrough (and its
sibling virtual/ranked-candidates passthrough loop) always read a served
response's tool calls with _chat_response_tool_calls, so an explicit
concrete model on /v1/responses never recorded a served function_call's
emitting agent -- silently dropping recording for that surface.

Add a shared _served_tool_calls(response, api_surface) dispatcher next to
the two extractors and use it at all three record_tool_loop_agents call
sites (proxy_completion's explicit-model and virtual passthrough
branches, and _orchestrated_provider_completion's structured synthesis),
removing the duplicated response_request/api_surface ternary from the
latter. Recording only: an explicit concrete model still never gets
reordered or evidence, per _apply_tool_loop_route's existing precedence
contract.

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CI triage for head 8652786e: opencode-review and the three CodeQL compatibility checks are verdict placeholders (org coverage image, .github#2157 → .github#2123 awaiting owner merge). noema-review (run 34772771262, sidecar pin 767e67fb) had ready_count: 1 at preflight and the review call ended after 562 s with HTTP 429 from google/gemma-4-31b-it:free — a free-pool rate-limit storm with a single ready route, which is the case PR #1179 (Retry-After-aware admission) exists for. Not caused by this diff; no code change here.

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Pull request overview

OpenCode reviewed the current-head product diff. Coverage is a separate gate.

Changed files

  • CHANGELOG.d/tool-loop-emitting-agent-routing.md — repository behavior
  • contextual_orchestrator/orchestrator.py — Python module behavior
  • docs/architecture.md — operator or user guidance
  • docs/doctoring/TOOL_EXECUTION_FALLBACKS.md — operator or user guidance
  • docs/product-technical-gap-baseline.md — operator or user guidance
  • tests/test_passthrough_provider_failover.py — regression suite

Changed behavior

flowchart LR
  PR["PR changed files"] --> Evidence["OpenCode bounded evidence"]
  Evidence --> S1["Repository file: tool-loop-emitting-agent-routing.md"]
  S1 --> I1["repository behavior"]
  I1 --> R1["Review risk: Repository file: tool-loop-emitting-agent-routing.md"]
  R1 --> V1["required checks"]
  Evidence --> S2["Python: orchestrator.py"]
  S2 --> I2["Python module behavior"]
  I2 --> R2["Review risk: Python: orchestrator.py"]
  R2 --> V2["pytest plus coverage"]
  Evidence --> S3["Docs: architecture.md (3 files)"]
  S3 --> I3["operator or user guidance"]
  I3 --> R3["Review risk: Docs: architecture.md (3 files)"]
  R3 --> V3["docs review"]
  Evidence --> S4["Test: test_passthrough_provider_failover.py"]
  S4 --> I4["regression suite"]
  I4 --> R4["Review risk: Test: test_passthrough_provider_failover.py"]
  R4 --> V4["targeted test run"]
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Findings

No source-backed product finding is synthesized from the coverage gate. A coverage miss belongs in the status comment.

  • Head SHA: 8652786e62925a4c5adabd275da1955dc8487450
  • Workflow run: 34784851740
  • Workflow attempt: 1
  • Coverage gate: failure

Review outcome

Coverage is a gate, not the review. This body reviews the changed product files.

Changed-File Evidence Map

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  PR["PR changed files"] --> Evidence["OpenCode bounded evidence"]
  Evidence --> S1["Repository file: tool-loop-emitting-agent-routing.md"]
  S1 --> I1["repository behavior"]
  I1 --> R1["Review risk: Repository file: tool-loop-emitting-agent-routing.md"]
  R1 --> V1["required checks"]
  Evidence --> S2["Python: orchestrator.py"]
  S2 --> I2["Python module behavior"]
  I2 --> R2["Review risk: Python: orchestrator.py"]
  R2 --> V2["pytest plus coverage"]
  Evidence --> S3["Docs: architecture.md (3 files)"]
  S3 --> I3["operator or user guidance"]
  I3 --> R3["Review risk: Docs: architecture.md (3 files)"]
  R3 --> V3["docs review"]
  Evidence --> S4["Test: test_passthrough_provider_failover.py"]
  S4 --> I4["regression suite"]
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Coverage evidence did not pass, so approval is blocked. The formal pull-request review is the source-backed diff review, not this status comment.

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CI triage for the COVERAGE_BLOCKED verdict posted at 09:25Z on head 8652786e: it is stale evidence, not a finding about this diff.

The dispatch run behind it (ContextualWisdomLab/.github run 34784851740) was created 2026-09-13T21:47:07Z, while the coverage-image repair (.github#2123) merged at 2026-09-13T23:37:49Z. Its coverage-evidence job log still shows the pre-repair failure verbatim: locked VCS source fast-mlsirm has a missing or ambiguous import root for fast_mlsirm at docker step #17, then Trusted coverage tool image build failed before PR execution. The verdict comment simply arrived ~11.5 hours after the run started, because the org Actions queue is saturated (ContextualWisdomLab/.github#1531).

So this verdict cannot confirm or refute anything about the repaired image. The first meaningful evidence will be a dispatch created after 23:37:49Z; the newest such run right now belongs to another repository and is still queued. No code change applies here, and the two review comments are the opencode overview pair with no findings and no inline threads.

Practical consequence worth noting for anyone reading verdicts today: a COVERAGE_BLOCKED posted now may describe a run that predates the fix, so compare the dispatch run's created_at against the repair merge time before treating it as a regression.

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seonghobae and others added 3 commits September 18, 2026 01:20
Preserve tool-loop handoff memory and evidence while absorbing main's
rate-limit admission, context-window filtering, and output-budget fields.

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