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## Title

    [PydanticAI] UserError: Cannot provide a new user prompt when the message history contains unprocessed tool calls

## Body

    Cause (Maintainer-confirmed cause): The agent requires pending tool calls to be resolved (results supplied) before accepting a new user prompt.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Other error fragments:
    - Tool call results were provided, but the message history does not contain any unprocessed tool calls.
    - UserError: Tool call results need to be provided for all deferred tool calls
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/8705 (github_issue, unknown, maintainer_confirmed_cause): Troubleshooting entries: pending tool execution blocks new prompts; provide tool results or resume; supply results for all deferred tools.
    
    Search phrasings: pydantic ai unprocessed tool calls message history error; pydantic-ai deferred tool results required
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "Continuing a conversation raises UserError about unprocessed tool calls.",
      "context": "Product: PydanticAI\nComponent: Agent graph message history / deferred tools\nOperation: agent.run(new_prompt, message_history=...) where the last ModelResponse has tool calls without results\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: pydantic_ai.exceptions.UserError\nPackages: pydantic-ai 2.x (2.51.0 source)\nTrigger: Persisted history ends with tool calls (e.g. deferred/approval-required tools or an interrupted run) and a new user prompt is sent instead of tool results.",
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        "literal_error_text": "Cannot provide a new user prompt when the message history contains unprocessed tool calls."
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## Support assessment

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        "body": "Recommended action: Provide results for all pending/deferred tool calls (deferred tool results) and resume, or trim the dangling tool-call response from history before sending a new prompt.\n\nEvidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.",
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