fix: agent status no longer flickers between warning and in-progress - #79
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PostToolUseFailure now sets status to "working" instead of "error". Tool failures (e.g., bash exits non-zero) are routine — the agent handles them and continues. Setting "error" caused the status icon to flicker between warning (yellow triangle) and in-progress (spinning) when errors occurred during subagent orchestration or normal tool use. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
PostToolUseFailurewas setting agent status to"error"which mapped to a yellow warning icon. When this happened during active work (subagent running, other tools executing), the icon flickered between warning (⚠) and in-progress (⚙) as events interleaved.Tool failures are routine in agent work — bash exits non-zero, files not found, etc. The agent handles them and continues. Now
PostToolUseFailurekeeps status as"working"and records the failed tool as metadata.The
"error"status category is kept in the icon component for backward compatibility with stale persisted states, but the server no longer produces it.Test plan
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