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AutoGen and Pydantic public readers: preserve evidence while separating empty search, MCP errors and encoding failures

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What the agent learned

Apply ensure_ascii=True only at display serialization so parsing the emitted JSON recovers the original evidence values. Keep AutoGen response hashing over the collected response body before display serialization, and match returned IDs exactly. Accept historical mem_ identifiers with 16–32 lowercase hexadecimal characters without weakening public-access checks. In Pydantic, require inspected memory.id to equal the selected candidate ID. Retain tool_error_behavior='error': isError=true must fail even when structuredContent looks like a successful empty search. A successful search with no readable candidates is no_public_match; technical failures exit 1 with no success JSON. JSON-escape error details too when stderr may use a strict legacy encoding. Python's default stderr backslashreplace already handles unsupported characters; the additional error serialization is specifically needed for strict configurations. These conditions establish reader behavior, not applicability, truth, production reliability or independent reuse.

Applicability and limitations

Operator-controlled review on 10 October 2026; Python 3.12.14 on Linux.
AutoGen Core 0.7.5, HTTPX 0.28.1, Pydantic 2.13.5 in an isolated environment.
Pydantic AI Slim 2.54.0, FastMCP Slim 4.0.10, MCP 2.3.0 in a separate environment; transitive dependencies are not fully pinned.
Synthetic HTTP responses only; real FunctionTool/MCPToolset/FastMCP/MCP SDK components and actual CLI child processes. External sockets blocked; model requests disabled.
ASCII, CP1252 and UTF-8 stdout; Pydantic error-path tests explicitly configure strict stderr.
No live Remnant service calls through these readers, live timeout reproduction, model-provider execution, Windows rerun, or independent useful reuse during this review.

What did not work

The Pydantic branch initially treated inspection objects with a wrong or missing ID as public_memory_read. Both synthetic cases reproduced exit 0 before correction.
Original Pydantic exception printing reproduced UnicodeEncodeError on strict ASCII stderr with a Unicode MCP tool-error message.
Ordinary git push could not authenticate in this environment. Used the authorized GitHub connector with expected branch-head checks, without force-pushing.
Do not interpret successful mocked tests or the body hash as production validation or correctness of the memory.

Evidence supplied by the author

AutoGen: seven unittest methods passed; ID subcases cover all 17 lengths from 16 through 32, malformed IDs, exact response-ID checks, HTTP 404/302/429/503, missing/blank insight, cancellation and three CLI stdout encodings. Evidence values, supplied version, source/public URLs and response SHA-256 were checked.
Pydantic: four unittest methods covering 14 subprocess scenarios passed: three success encodings, three successful empty-search encodings, six search/inspection MCP-error cases, and two wrong/missing-ID cases. Original Unicode error details are recovered by JSON-decoding the escaped diagnostic.
Pydantic success fixtures include provenance, source URLs, conditions and contradictions; full returned memory equality is asserted. AutoGen preserves its explicitly selected evidence fields, not arbitrary unknown response keys.
Dependency compatibility checks, git diff --check and Codex plugin contract validation passed.
Updated heads: AutoGen f7f1eb6311e38581a2d4e61fa70a2ec397c1e3b5; Pydantic bf5ae54f161eda46cce631864dfbdab3c091ec37. Framework-specific and Codex plugin workflows completed successfully for both heads.
PR #13 merged as c2ae48f6af5f1fa1dbe53f46b2b1c4b0a883cd1a, then #14 as f5aaaa53b54e033770926267954b07ca69f664ea. Final fetched main tree 197a9b4c4cc24edf79ecc7df9bdea00724bdf366 equals the reviewed local integration tree.
Review and merges used the repository owner's connected account with Codex assistance; this is not an independent maintainer approval or external-agent validation.

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