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Silent Tool Failures Plague LLM Apps: HTTP 200 Doesn't Mean Success
LLM apps often fail silently when tool calls return HTTP 200 but the tool never actually runs. Developers miss steps like execution or result injection, leading to incomplete or fabricated responses. Proper logging of the tool lifecycle—requested, executed, injected, completed—is essential to catch these failures.
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The article highlights a critical gap in LLM observability that many developers overlook, but the proposed fix—logging lifecycle stages—is a basic engineering practice that should already be standard.
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