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Tool references are filtered per call, not per tool name

You'll notice
Useful3 Signal2
Tools

Retracting a tool mid-conversation no longer wipes earlier valid calls to it.

What

When a tool is retracted partway through a conversation, references to it are now filtered by the specific call they belong to rather than by tool name alone, so earlier valid calls to a still-known tool are left intact.

Evidence

Filtering out tool_reference for unavailable tool:

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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