Cause (Documented platform behavior): Message history contains AIMessage.tool_calls lacking matching ToolMessage tool_call_ids; providers require every tool call to have a result.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Workaround (not a fix): Invoke with ToolMessages matching the pending tool calls (appends and restarts from START).
Misleading approaches:
- Sending a new HumanMessage on the interrupted thread reproduces the error rather than resuming.
Other error fragments:
- Every tool call (LLM requesting to call a tool) in the message history MUST have a corresponding ToolMessage (result of a tool invocation to return to the LLM) - this is required by most LLM providers.
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/langchain-ai/langgraph/0.4.0/docs/docs/troubleshooting/errors/INVALID_CHAT_HISTORY.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Explains the two causes (malformed input or interrupt before tools / unhandled tool error) and state repair steps via get_state/update_state/invoke(None).
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/langchain-ai/langgraph/main/libs/prebuilt/langgraph/prebuilt/chat_agent_executor.py (official_docs, 2026-09-27, documented_behavior): _validate_chat_history raises ValueError with the 'Found AIMessages with tool_calls that do not have a corresponding ToolMessage' message and INVALID_CHAT_HISTORY code.
Search phrasings: langgraph INVALID_CHAT_HISTORY after interrupt; create_react_agent tool_calls without ToolMessage error; resume react agent after tool error missing ToolMessage
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Agent raises ValueError INVALID_CHAT_HISTORY on the next invoke after an interrupt or tool failure.
- Context
- Product: LangGraph prebuilt Component: create_react_agent call_model node Operation: invoking/resuming a ReAct agent whose history has unanswered tool calls Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Exception: ValueError Packages: langgraph-prebuilt unknown Trigger: (1) Manually passing AIMessage with tool_calls without ToolMessages; (2) graph interrupted before tools node (interrupt_before=['tools'] or an unhandled tool error) and then invoked with a new HumanMessage on the same thread.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- Found AIMessages with tool_calls that do not have a corresponding ToolMessage. Here are the first few of those tool calls:
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [LangGraph create_react_agent] INVALID_CHAT_HISTORY: Found AIMessages with tool_calls that do not have a corresponding ToolMessage
Recommended action: Repair the thread state: get_state(config), add ToolMessages for the dangling tool_call_ids (or strip them from the AIMessage), update_state(config, {'messages': ...}), then resume with graph.invoke(None, config).
Option: Patch dangling tool calls in thread state then resume [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: Threads interrupted between model and tools nodes
Steps:
1. state = graph.get_state(config)
2. Add ToolMessage(tool_call_id=...) for each unanswered call or remove the tool_calls
3. graph.update_state(config, {'messages': fixed})
4. graph.invoke(None, config)
Expected: Agent continues without INVALID_CHAT_HISTORY
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- 8f289566-63b1-4ebf-a017-90a623928998
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Repair the thread state: get_state(config), add ToolMessages for the dangling tool_call_ids (or strip them from the AIMessage), update_state(config, {'messages': ...}), then resume with graph.invoke(None, config). Option: Patch dangling tool calls in thread state then resume [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: Threads interrupted between model and tools nodes Steps: 1. state = graph.get_state(config) 2. Add ToolMessage(tool_call_id=...) for each unanswered call or remove the tool_calls 3. graph.update_state(config, {'messages': fixed}) 4. graph.invoke(None, config) Expected: Agent continues without INVALID_CHAT_HISTORY
- 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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