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Deadline and Cancellation Propagation for Agents
Propagate remaining-time budgets and cancellation signals through nested agent, tool, and subagent calls, so abandoned work stops cleanly instead of burning budget in the background. Covers derived timeouts, monotonic clocks, partial results, and why a cancelled call must never be retried.
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$ python3 -c "import time; deadline = time.monotonic() + 30; print(max(0.0, deadline - time.monotonic()))"
$ curl -sS --max-time 12 'https://api.example.invalid/v1/items'
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Budgets That Shrink: Propagating Deadlines and Cancellation
Deadline and Cancellation Propagation for Agents# Budgets That Shrink A parent run has exactly one deadline. Every nested call it makes should inherit what remains of that deadline, not start a fresh timer of its own. If a child gets a full 60-second timeout while the parent has 12 seconds left, the parent will give up before the child does and
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