Fix agent turns hanging indefinitely: add step timeout and fetch_url timeout - #32
Fix agent turns hanging indefinitely: add step timeout and fetch_url timeout#32techwithanirudh wants to merge 4 commits into
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Added timeout setting to modelSettings to prevent stalling.
Added timeout configuration to prevent stalling on slow responses.
Added a timeout mechanism to the fetchUrlTool to prevent hanging requests.
WalkthroughThe change adds 180-second step timeouts to three agents and a 20-second timeout around Exa URL fetching. It also reformats two orchestrator template literals without changing their output. ChangesExecution timeout controls
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to URL fetches now fail after 20 seconds, but stalled Exa requests can continue running in the background. Under repeated slow requests, this can accumulate resource usage and degrade service availability, so cancellation should be added before merge. Poem
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In `@src/mastra/agents/explore.ts`:
- Around line 59-61: Rewrite the timeout comments near the agent model settings
in src/mastra/agents/explore.ts lines 59-61 and src/mastra/agents/research.ts
lines 53-55 to state only that modelSettings.timeout.stepMs limits provider
model calls. Remove claims that stepMs times out tool execution or protects
fetch_url; fetchUrlTool’s existing timeout requires no direct change.
In `@src/mastra/tools/fetch-url.ts`:
- Line 16: Update withTimeout and the Exa request flow in fetchUrlTool so the
20-second outer timeout aborts the underlying getContents fetch rather than only
rejecting the wrapper. Preserve livecrawlTimeout for Exa’s crawl budget, and
route the request through an AbortController/AbortSignal-capable path while
still clearing the timeout on completion.
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| // See orchestrator.ts: without this, a delegated explore turn can | ||
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| // fetch_url on a slow page) with no reply and no trace ever recorded. |
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In Mastra, modelSettings.timeout provides time-based execution budgets for agent runs, helping prevent long-running calls from stalling the agent loop [1][2][3]. The timeout settings are defined within the modelSettings object under the timeout property, which accepts an object of type ModelTimeoutSettings [1][2]. Key timeout properties: totalMs: Specifies the maximum wall-clock duration (in milliseconds) for an entire agent run, including all loop iterations, tool calls, and retries [1][3]. If this limit is exceeded, the run is aborted with a MastraTimeoutError; fallback models are not attempted because this is treated as a hard deadline for the total operation [1][2][3]. stepMs: Specifies the maximum wall-clock duration (in milliseconds) for a single model call [1][3]. This covers both establishing the stream and consuming it [1]. If exceeded, the call fails with a MastraTimeoutError; while the specific model call is not retried, the agent will advance to the next configured model if fallback models are defined [1][2][3]. Implementation Example: const result = await agent.generate('Prompt content', { modelSettings: { timeout: { totalMs: 60000, // 60 seconds total stepMs: 10000, // 10 seconds per model call }, }, }); Tool Execution Timeouts: In addition to model-level timeouts, individual tool execution can be constrained using the timeoutMs option within ToolOptions [4]. Setting this value ensures that a stalled tool execution does not block the agent loop indefinitely [4]. If a tool exceeds its assigned timeoutMs, it throws a MastraError with the ID TOOL_EXECUTION_TIMEOUT [4]. These features are part of the Mastra core framework as of version 1.60.0 and subsequent releases [2][5].
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- 1: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mastra/core@1.62.0/dist/llm/model/model-settings.d.ts
- 2: GitHub pull request 15882 in mastra-ai/mastra (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: https://mastra.ai/reference/agents/network
- 4: GitHub pull request 18596 in mastra-ai/mastra (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: https://newreleases.io/project/github/mastra-ai/mastra/release/@mastra%2Fcore@1.60.0
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Correct the timeout comments in both agents.
modelSettings.timeout.stepMs limits a provider model call. It does not time out tool execution. fetchUrlTool already applies its own 20-second timeout. Rewrite both comments so they describe only the provider-step guarantee and do not attribute fetch_url protection to stepMs.
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In `@src/mastra/agents/explore.ts` around lines 59 - 61, Rewrite the timeout
comments near the agent model settings in src/mastra/agents/explore.ts lines
59-61 and src/mastra/agents/research.ts lines 53-55 to state only that
modelSettings.timeout.stepMs limits provider model calls. Remove claims that
stepMs times out tool execution or protects fetch_url; fetchUrlTool’s existing
timeout requires no direct change.
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Abort the underlying Exa fetch when the tool timeout fires.
withTimeout only rejects the wrapper. In exa-js@2.16.3, getContents sends livecrawlTimeout in the /contents body, but request calls fetchImpl without an AbortSignal. A stalled fetch can therefore remain pending after fetchUrlTool rejects. Use livecrawlTimeout for Exa's crawl budget and an abort-capable request path for the 20-second outer timeout.
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In `@src/mastra/tools/fetch-url.ts` at line 16, Update withTimeout and the Exa
request flow in fetchUrlTool so the 20-second outer timeout aborts the
underlying getContents fetch rather than only rejecting the wrapper. Preserve
livecrawlTimeout for Exa’s crawl budget, and route the request through an
AbortController/AbortSignal-capable path while still clearing the timeout on
completion.
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Verdict: request changes
Findings
- Blocking — the
fetch_urltimeout leaves the underlying Exa request running (src/mastra/tools/fetch-url.ts:8-16).Promise.racebounds how long the tool waits, but it does not cancelexa.getContents. A network request that never settles therefore remains alive after the tool reports a timeout; repeated slow fetches can accumulate sockets and work and recreate an availability problem at process level. The timeout needs to abort the actual request (and should set Exa's crawl budget separately). - Blocking — the new behavior has no regression coverage. The PR changes provider fallback timing and external-request timeout semantics, but adds no test asserting that a fetch times out, that its underlying request is cancelled, or that all three agents carry the intended
stepMsconfiguration. This is exactly the failure mode where a wrapper can appear to fix the user-visible wait while leaking the real operation. - Correctness/documentation — the delegated-agent comments overstate
stepMs(src/mastra/agents/explore.ts:59-61,src/mastra/agents/research.ts:53-55). The agent setting bounds provider model calls; it is not the mechanism that times out an in-progress tool call. The separatefetch_urltimeout is required for that path, so the comments should not saystepMsprotects a hanging tool call. - Quality gate — the branch is not formatter-clean. GitHub's Lint check fails on
src/mastra/tools/fetch-url.ts:8-16. TypeScript and spelling CI pass. Scope is otherwise focused: three agent settings plus the URL-fetch boundary, with only formatter-driven template-literal changes in the orchestrator. - Architecture/history — the placement is broadly consistent. The three agents already own their provider settings, and
fetch-url.tsis the correct system boundary for an Exa-specific deadline. The missing cancellation is the material pattern break: a boundary timeout should release the underlying external resource, not only its caller.
Issue and intent
- Authorizing issue: #31, open with no approval/status label.
- Classification: bug fix.
- Independently established contract: a stalled provider stream must advance through fallback rather than hold a turn forever, and a stalled URL fetch must stop consuming the tool/transport after a bounded interval. The three
stepMssettings match the provider-stream half of that intent; the currentPromise.raceonly partially satisfies the fetch half. - The PR is mergeable, but currently
CHANGES_REQUESTED/UNSTABLEbecause of existing review and lint signal.
Verification
- Checked out exact head
c25d1426b63f2146eb73de06582c4a6e5a90d795fromorigin/fix/agent-step-timeout-and-fetch-url-timeoutin detached HEAD. env -u GH_TOKEN -u GITHUB_TOKEN npm run typecheck— could not execute meaningfully because this sandbox checkout lacks installed@types/bun/@types/nodeand uses an incompatible available TypeScript; GitHub TypeScript CI passes.env -u GH_TOKEN -u GITHUB_TOKEN npm run check— could not execute because project dependencies are absent. A transientnpx ultracite@7.9.4also cannot resolve the project config without a local install; GitHub Lint CI independently fails on the changed timeout helper.- Standalone Node reproduction of the exact
Promise.race(...).finally(clearTimeout)pattern — wrapper rejected at the deadline while the underlying operation remained active and completed later, confirming that this implementation does not cancel work. - Static base-path trace — before the PR,
fetchUrlTool.executedirectly awaitedexa.getContentswith no bound; the PR makes the caller return after 20 seconds but does not terminate the request. - No repository test script or changed regression tests exist for this behavior.
Existing review disposition
- Confirmed: CodeRabbit major, "abort the underlying Exa fetch" at
src/mastra/tools/fetch-url.ts:16. The local Promise-race reproduction confirms the cancellation gap. - Confirmed: CodeRabbit minor, inaccurate tool-timeout claims at
src/mastra/agents/explore.ts:61and siblingsrc/mastra/agents/research.ts:55.stepMsand the explicit tool timeout cover different boundaries. - Confirmed: CodeRabbit/CI formatter failure at
src/mastra/tools/fetch-url.ts:8-16. - No pending bot review remains; CodeRabbit completed against the current head.
Requested changes
- Make the 20-second
fetch_urldeadline cancel the underlying network request through anAbortController/abort-capable Exa request path, while keeping Exa's crawl timeout as its own server-side budget. - Add meaningful regression coverage proving deadline rejection and underlying cancellation; also cover or otherwise mechanically verify the intended
stepMssetting on orchestrator, research, and explore. - Correct the explore/research comments so they describe
stepMsas a provider model-call limit rather than a tool-call timeout. - Apply the repository formatter so the Lint check passes.
Assumptions
- Treated the orchestrator template-literal rewrites as formatter-only and behavior-preserving.
- Treated issue #31 as sufficient intent despite its lack of an approval/status label because the requested behavior is a bounded bug fix already anticipated in repository TODO history, not a new product decision.
- Treated aborting the underlying operation as required, not optional hardening, because the issue is specifically about indefinite work and availability rather than only returning an earlier error to one caller.
Open questions
- None; the required behavior is concrete and can be resolved without a product decision.
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fixes #31
two related changes so a stalled provider stream or a hanging tool call can no longer hang a turn indefinitely with no reply and no trace ever recorded:
modelSettings.timeout: { stepMs: 180_000 }to the orchestrator, research, and explore agents, so a stalled model/provider step escalates to the next fallback model instead of hanging forever. this is exactly what this repo's own TODO.md already recommends.fetch-url.ts'sexa.getContentscall with a 20 second timeout, so one slow external page cannot block a step (and by extension the whole turn) indefinitely.the 180 second step timeout is a starting value. the longest legitimate step duration i saw across several recent traces was about 144 seconds (a grep-heavy step), so 180s gives some headroom while still catching a true stall. happy to tune it.
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