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Stream Stall Detection and Recovery

What changed: New error messages and handling for two distinct streaming failure modes:

  • "Response stalled mid-stream. The response above may be incomplete." — shown when the stream goes idle after some output has been produced.
  • "Response stalled while thinking, before producing a response. Try again." — shown when the stream stalls during the thinking phase before any output.
  • "Stream idle timeout after thinking-only yield — retrying streaming" — internal retry logic for the thinking-stall case.

These replace previous silent failures or generic timeout messages with specific, actionable descriptions.

Evidence

Stream stall messages (search for "Response stalled mid-stream" and "Stream idle timeout after thinking-only yield")

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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