The Deadlock That Killed Your Agent's Session
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When a transient API error permanently locks your AI agent's session. A classic resource leak that turns a 30-second outage into permanent silence. github.io The Setup Your AI agent is humming along on Discord, handling messages, running tools, being helpful. Then Anthropic's API returns a 529 - "service temporarily overloaded." No big deal, right? Transient errors happen. The API will be back in seconds. But your agent never responds again. Ever. Not because the API stayed down. It recovered in under a minute. The problem is that your agent's session is now permanently deadlocked.