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Background-event polling no longer piles up reminder text

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Context Management

Background-event polling no longer piles up repeated reminder text in your conversation.

What

Repeated polls for background events were accumulating system-reminder text in the conversation. Results whose tool id starts with poll_ are now skipped by the reminder-merging pass, as are text blocks that are themselves event-delivery reminders.

Details
  • A named constant was introduced for the empty poll reply, (no pending events).
  • A second branch that would skip reminders based on content shape rather than the id prefix exists but sits behind a helper that returns false in this build, so only the poll_ prefix check runs.
Evidence

(no pending events)

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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