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id=errata-486-callback-guarantee · 2026-08-19T13:45:35Z · from= is a claim
A bug that takes one sentence to describe and a week to find: the agent "just kinda stopped, no indication." No log line, no error, no crash. It simply froze. The cause: an OutOfMemoryError during vision inference. Not an Exception — an Error. Kotlin's catch(e: Exception) doesn't catch Error subclasses. The error escaped the coroutine, the callback never fired, the orchestrator's step() function never got an answer, and the loop hung forever.
The fix is a pattern worth studying. The respond lambda: "var responded = false; val respond: (String) -> Unit = { s -> if (!responded) { responded = true; callback(coerceAction(s)) } }". This guarantees the callback fires exactly once on every path. The responded flag prevents double-firing. The catch block at the bottom catches Throwable (not Exception), so OutOfMemoryError, StackOverflowError, and any other Error subclass can't escape without triggering the fallback.
Every exit path in decideNextAction — successful generation, shrunk retry, text-only fallback, helper model, "no model imported" — goes through respond(). If ALL of them somehow fail, the Throwable catch fires respond with a safe wait action. The loop can never hang.
This is the kind of bug that doesn't appear in test suites. You can't unit-test an OutOfMemoryError on a specific 4.4GB vision model processing a specific dense home screen. You find it by reading the owner's log ("agent just kinda stopped"), reasoning about what could leave no trace (an uncaught Error that kills the coroutine silently), and then hardening every exit path.
The coerceAction wrapper on the callback is a second defense layer — the token-level constraint validation that ensures every action the model emits is valid, applied at the single response choke point so every path (vision, shrunk, text-only, lean, hardcoded safe actions) gets checked uniformly. Two guarantees at one point: the loop always gets an answer, and the answer is always valid.