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Summary

Refactors LocalAgentExecutor to throw a fail-fast system Error when a tool response is dropped by the scheduler. This resolves two critical Gemini API protocol violations on main that caused immediate 400 Bad Request crashes:

  1. Invalid Text Fallback: Returning a generic text part ({ text: "All tool calls failed..." }) instead of the required functionResponse parts when all tool calls failed.
  2. Mismatched Count: Silently omitting dropped parallel tool responses, causing the response turn ($N-1$ responses) to mismatch the call turn ($N$ calls).

Allows agent / developer to see the actual error, and gives it a chance to recover.

Details

  • The Problem: The Gemini API strictly requires that a tool response turn contains exclusively functionResponse parts matching the exact count of requested tool calls. main violated this by returning a text fallback on total failure, and silently ignoring dropped parallel responses. Both triggered backend 400 Bad Request rejections.
  • The Fix:
    • Reconstructs toolResponseParts strictly. Throws an explicit system Error if any requested response is missing/dropped.
    • Removes the invalid text fallback block entirely.
    • Skips checking during expected exceptions:
      1. Successful complete_task: No response turn is sent when the task completes successfully.
      2. Abort/Timeout: Interrupted turns (signal.aborted === true) are bypassed.
    • Updates unit tests in local-executor.test.ts to assert critical throwing behavior.

Related Issues

Fixes #25359

How to Validate

npm test -w @google/gemini-cli-core -- src/agents/local-executor.test.ts

Pre-Merge Checklist

  • Updated relevant documentation and README (if needed)
  • Added/updated tests (if needed)
  • Noted breaking changes (if any)
  • Validated on required platforms/methods:
    • MacOS
    • Windows
    • Linux (npm run)

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Summary of Changes

Hello, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request improves the reliability and debuggability of the LocalAgentExecutor by enforcing strict validation on tool response processing. By throwing explicit errors instead of silently handling missing data, the system now immediately surfaces internal concurrency or scheduler issues that violate the Gemini API tool response requirements.

Highlights

  • Explicit Error Handling: Updated LocalAgentExecutor to throw a critical system error when tool responses are missing, ensuring strict compliance with the Gemini API protocol.
  • Exception Handling: Added logic to ignore missing responses during aborted executions or successful task completions to prevent false-positive errors.
  • Testing: Added unit tests in local-executor.test.ts to verify that the executor correctly rejects and throws errors when scheduler results are dropped.
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Code Review

This pull request enhances error handling in the LocalAgentExecutor by ensuring that every tool call from the model has a corresponding response, as required by the Gemini API protocol. It introduces a critical system failure error when tool execution results are unexpectedly dropped or lost by the scheduler, while accounting for aborted executions and successful task completions. Additionally, unit tests were added to verify these failure scenarios. I have no feedback to provide.

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LGTM with some nits.

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// Reconstruct toolResponseParts in the original order
// Reconstruct toolResponseParts in the original order.
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nit: excessive commenting here and below

} else {
// If the execution was aborted (or timed out) mid-turn, the scheduler
// was interrupted, so empty responses are expected.
if (signal.aborted) {
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this seems stylistically hard to read. I'd recommend avoiding nested if/else's and prefer early returns(good to have in your gemini.md).

Something like:

    // The Gemini API requires exactly one response per function call.
    const toolResponseParts: Part[] = [];

    for (const [index, functionCall] of functionCalls.entries()) {
      const callId = functionCall.id ?? `${promptId}-${index}`;
      const part = syncResults.get(callId);

      if (part) {
        toolResponseParts.push(part);
        continue;
      }

      const isAborted = signal.aborted;
      const isTaskComplete = functionCall.name === COMPLETE_TASK_TOOL_NAME && taskCompleted;

      // Safely skip missing responses if the run stopped or the turn won't be sent back.
      if (isAborted || isTaskComplete) {
        continue;
      }

      throw new Error(
        `[LocalAgentExecutor] Critical System Failure: Tool execution result was lost/dropped by the scheduler for callId ${callId} (${functionCall.name}). This indicates an internal race condition or scheduler bug.`,
      );
    }

    return {
      nextMessage: { role: 'user', parts: toolResponseParts },
      submittedOutput,
      taskCompleted,
      aborted,
    };

@aishaneeshah aishaneeshah force-pushed the fix/issue-25359-protocol-violation branch from e4e2320 to c772390 Compare May 8, 2026 17:56
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