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@Unshure Unshure commented Jul 11, 2025

Breaking Change!!

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Remove _remove_dangling_messages from SlidingWindowConversationManager.

Retain previous behavior

For users who want to keep the behavior that the sdk provided before this change, you can add the following logic after your agent call:

agent.(<Your input here>)
if len(agent.messages) > 0 and agent.messages[-1]["role"] == "assistant":
    if any("toolUse" in content for content in agent.messages[-1]["content"]):
        agent.messages.pop()

We believe this currently only happens if the event-loop is interrupted by client applications and thus believe that clients should handle this case outside of the loop.

In the future, we expect dangling tool_use messages to be a valid use-case where agents can resume from and thus we're removing this logic before we got 1.0

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How have you tested the change? Verify that the changes do not break functionality or introduce warnings in consuming repositories: agents-docs, agents-tools, agents-cli

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zastrowm previously approved these changes Jul 11, 2025
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Can you add a breaking change notice and how customers can do this themselves?

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Unshure commented Jul 11, 2025

Can you add a breaking change notice and how customers can do this themselves?

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@Unshure Unshure merged commit 10555be into strands-agents:main Jul 11, 2025
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dbschmigelski pushed a commit to Ketansuhaas/sdk-python that referenced this pull request Jul 24, 2025
@Unshure Unshure deleted the remove-message-processor branch September 25, 2025 00:59
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