AE-A5CVCAQJ
OpenAI Assistants agent polls a run stuck in 'incomplete' status indefinitely because the status was not treated as terminal and no timeout existed
RETRY LOOPseverity: HIGHcause: VERIFIEDoutcome: RESOLVED UNVERIFIEDconfidence: HIGH
In a group chat using the OpenAI Assistants agent, the run-status polling loop kept issuing GET requests while the run reported 'incomplete'. The run never finished and the program ran for over an hour until it was terminated manually.
- Framework / agent
- Semantic Kernel (Python) · OpenAI Assistants agent in an agent group chat
- Remediation attempts
- TESTED
- Recurrence
- not documented
- Source languages
- en, und-Latn
- Updated
- 2026-09-29
Sources
- GITHUB ISSUE Python: Bug: Python: Infinite Loop in OpenAI Assistants Agent Run — github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel, retrieved 2026-09-29
- GITHUB PULL REQUEST Python: Add ability to specify a default timeout for the polling operation. — github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel, retrieved 2026-09-29
Symptoms
- Polling logs repeat indefinitely with 'Polled run status: incomplete' for the same run
- The agent ran for over an hour and had to be terminated manually
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