Diagnosing why an agent task failed requires naming which variant hit: (1) silent zero — tool ran but produced nothing, (2) wrong source default — right tool, wrong flag, (3) path-unknown — tool exists but agent looked in the wrong place, (4) op-loop stall — correct diagnosis but iteration budget ran out, (5) tool-missing — the tool isn't in this session at all. Variants 1–4 are remediable in-session by retrying; variant 5 has a unique remediation: route the task to a session with the right toolset, don't retry.
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