Empty Tool Output Is Not Success Until the Harness Says Interrupted
An interrupted MCP tool in a headless coding-agent session used to look finished. Treat empty completion as a bug until the harness asserts an interrupted error.
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A Green Cron Exit Is Not a Finished Job
Exit code 0 with empty output is not success — it's a zombie task. Here's how to detect and own the proof artifacts that separate real completion from silent failure in AI agent cron pipelines.
Shinjae Kang
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