Block-Reason Headers: Make Your Security Proxy Tell You Why
When a security proxy blocks an agent's request, the agent sees a 4xx and has to guess what happened. Was the destination wrong? The body? A header? Did the proxy timeout? Did the proxy itself crash? Without context, every block looks the same and the agent burns its retry budget on a single attempt's worth of information. X-Pipelock-Block-Reason is the header Pipelock emits on every block path so the agent knows. The vocabulary is small, the format is open-spec, and the impact on operator debug
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