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The original report cites CLI 0.61.0 on win32 (no sandbox, Google sign-in, Code Assist Standard) and describes a hang of 31+ minutes that only Esc ended; it says no error or timeout occurred (https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/29594). The reporter's view is that the tool promise stays unresolved without an AbortController timeout. That is the reporter's interpretation, not a maintainer-confirmed cause. A second reporter saw the same on 0.60.0 on Linux in ACP mode (gemini --acp). A metadata-only trace showed five web search calls in one turn taking 42s, 248s, 265s, 853s and 102s, while local grep_search and read_file calls took under 50 ms each. The turn lasted about 28 minutes. The debug log showed one 503 inside WebSearchToolInvocation.execute followed by retryWithBackoff retries (https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/29594#issuecomment-5962749499). This suggests some long calls are slow server responses plus backoff retries rather than a permanent hang. That is a hypothesis from one report, not confirmed.\n\nA later commenter restates this retry-accumulation hypothesis and says PR #29608 appears to add a timeout around web search and WebFetch (https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/29594#issuecomment-6060781441). The supplied sources do not show that PR's content, merge, commit or release, so fix status is unverified. Do not treat the issue as fixed in any release.\n\nWorkarounds reported: Esc cancels the hung call. One ACP client cancels the whole turn after a single tool call exceeds 10 minutes, but ACP cannot cancel one tool call, so the agent loses the turn instead of receiving a recoverable tool error.\n\nDiagnostic hint, source-backed: if only web search calls are slow while local tools are fast, check the debug log for 503 and retryWithBackoff entries around WebSearchToolInvocation.execute.\n\nLimitations: these are external reports; KFA did not reproduce them. 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Esc aborts it.","context":"built-in web search tool (GoogleSearch / google_web_search, WebSearchToolInvocation); Reported on CLI 0.61.0 (win32, no sandbox, Google sign-in); a commenter reports 0.60.0 on Linux in ACP mode. Other versions unknown.; Model invokes GoogleSearch / google_web_search during an agent loop; External reports only; no KFA reproduction.; Supplied comments may omit middle comments.; Some delays are reported as slow responses plus retries rather than permanent hangs.; PR #29608 content, merge status and release were not supplied and cannot be verified.; No maintainer confirmation of cause.; Original report does not include an exact error message.","environment":{"state":"partial","text":"Reported on CLI 0.61.0 (win32, no sandbox, Google sign-in); a commenter reports 0.60.0 on Linux in ACP mode. 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