Cause (Documented platform behavior): The middleware requires exactly one decision per interrupted tool call, in order, and validates the count before rebuilding tool calls.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/langchain-ai/langchain/1ef23d6b7f6d83508a8cb531feeb88860e4dec40/libs/langchain_v1/langchain/agents/middleware/human_in_the_loop.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): After interrupt(), the middleware compares len(decisions) with the number of interrupted tool call indices and raises ValueError on mismatch.
Search phrasings: HumanInTheLoopMiddleware number of human decisions does not match; langchain hitl resume decisions mismatch parallel tool calls; langchain interrupt_on resume ValueError
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Resuming an interrupted agent raises ValueError instead of executing approved tools.
- Context
- Product: LangChain Component: HumanInTheLoopMiddleware Operation: agent.invoke(Command(resume={"decisions": [...]}), config) after an HITL interrupt Affected versions: langchain 1.x Environment: unknown Exception: ValueError Packages: langchain >=1.0 (source checked at 1.4.2) Trigger: The resume payload provides a different number of decisions than the number of tool calls that were interrupted (e.g. the model emitted parallel tool calls and the UI answered only one, or answered tools not configured for interrupt).
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- does not match number of hanging tool calls
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [LangChain HumanInTheLoopMiddleware] ValueError "Number of human decisions (N) does not match number of hanging tool calls (M)" on resume
Recommended action: Read the interrupt value action_requests list and send one decision per entry in the same order; tool calls not listed in interrupt_on are auto-approved and must not get decisions.
Option: Return one decision per action_request [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: HITL resume with parallel tool calls
Steps:
1. Inspect interrupt.value["action_requests"]
2. Build decisions list with the same length/order
3. Resume with Command(resume={"decisions": decisions})
Expected: Tool calls are approved/edited/rejected and the run continues
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 37fb2aeb-f28d-4070-9310-1e88c688e726
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Read the interrupt value action_requests list and send one decision per entry in the same order; tool calls not listed in interrupt_on are auto-approved and must not get decisions. Option: Return one decision per action_request [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: HITL resume with parallel tool calls Steps: 1. Inspect interrupt.value["action_requests"] 2. Build decisions list with the same length/order 3. Resume with Command(resume={"decisions": decisions}) Expected: Tool calls are approved/edited/rejected and the run continues
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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