Deadlines and Cancellation in Nested Agent Calls

A parent agent run has one deadline, but the tools and subagents it calls each tend to bring their own default timeout. This course explains why a child must never outlive its parent, how to derive a nested timeout from the remaining budget using a monotonic clock, why cancellation must be modelled as a distinct outcome from failure, and how to return useful partial results when the clock runs out midway through a batch. Each lesson includes a small worked example and the failure mode it prevents.

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