Your agent isn't flaky. You're blind.

Wednesday, 2pm. Users say the agent is "slow." You check the logs: [tool] search_knowledge_base called [tool] search_knowledge_base returned: null [tool] search_knowledge_base called [tool] search_knowledge_base returned: null [tool] search_knowledge_base called [tool] search_knowledge_base returned: null [tool] search_knowledge_base called [tool] search_knowledge_base returned: null Four identical calls. Same input. Same null output. Your agent didn't know how to interpret silence, so it asked