Effect unknown

What it means

The run called a tool that can change things outside Auto, then stopped before it finished. Auto doesn't know whether the tool made its change, so it won't run the work again by itself.

What to do

Read the problem's detail first. It says what happened to this request.

• Look at the run's history with get_run_history to see which tool it called and what it sent.
• Check the system that tool works on to see whether the change happened.
• If the change still needs doing, start a new run with a new run_id.
• In a workflow, a catch that matches this error decides instead. A retry on status 503 doesn't match it.

Technical details

• Type: https://on.auto/problems/effect_unknown
• Status: 409
• Reason: conflict
• Kind: effect_unknown
• because: what stopped the run, when Auto knows

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