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One line of math froze my AI agent forever. The timeout watched and did nothing.
This is my second entry for the DEV x Sentry Bug Smash challenge. Entry #1 was a crash with a confusing error message . This one is the opposite and it is scarier: no crash, no message, no event. Just silence.
The bug that sends you nothing
smolagents runs LLM-generated Python in a sandboxed executor with a timeout. Issue #2473 claims that one line of model-generated math defeats it completely:
from smolagents.local_python_executor import LocalPythonExecutor
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