{"version":"2.1.236","anchor":"artifact-tool-stops-retrying-after-three-identical-rejection","canonical_anchor":"artifact-tool-stops-retrying-after-three-identical-rejection","heading":"Artifact tool stops retrying after three identical rejections","tier":"notice","area":"Artifacts","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.236\/e\/artifact-tool-stops-retrying-after-three-identical-rejection","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.236","markdown":"### Artifact tool stops retrying after three identical rejections\n\nThe Artifact tool stops looping after three identical failures and reports the problem to you.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen the Artifact tool fails the same way on the same target three times, the error text now tells Claude to stop retrying and report the problem to you instead of looping.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Failures are fingerprinted by action plus `file_path`, `url` and `thread_id`; schema validation errors count too.\n- On the third identical rejection the returned error gains a stop-and-tell-the-user prefix.\n- Logs `tengu_artifact_reject_breaker`, which was also added to the telemetry event allowlist.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`tengu_artifact_reject_breaker`\n\n- Area: Artifacts\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}