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Fixes #7630

Supersedes #6622 (auto-closed by the require-issue gate because its linked issue #6611 was stale-closed as not-planned on Aug 27; the underlying bug is confirmed still present on current main).

What this PR does

Adds async variants of _handle_native_tool_calls and _execute_single_native_tool_call that use await tool.arun() instead of tool.run(), and updates _ainvoke_loop_native_tools to call them.

Why it's needed

When the async native tool path (_ainvoke_loop_native_tools) calls the sync _handle_native_tool_calls, which calls tool.run() → asyncio.run() (inside a worker thread), a genuinely async tool is never awaited on the running event loop. The ReAct executor (_ainvoke_loop_react) already does this correctly via aexecute_tool_and_check_finality() → tool_usage.ause() → await. Full details, repro script, and root-cause line references in #7630.

What changed

  1. _ahandle_native_tool_calls() — async variant that uses asyncio.gather instead of ThreadPoolExecutor for parallel tool execution, so async tools are properly awaited rather than bridged through asyncio.run().

  2. _aexecute_single_native_tool_call() — async variant that calls await tool.arun() instead of tool.run().

  3. _ainvoke_loop_native_tools() now calls _ahandle_native_tool_calls() instead of _handle_native_tool_calls().

The sync path is unchanged. The from_cache carry added to the native tool path by #7501 is preserved in the shared sync/async helper (ToolUsageFinishedEvent carries from_cache exactly as upstream's inline version does).

Reviewer Test Plan

  1. Create a crew with an async tool (a tool whose _run is a coroutine)
  2. Call crew.kickoff_async() with a native-function-calling model
  3. Before: tool runs in a worker thread with a fresh nested event loop; after: awaited natively on the running loop

Upstream's own test_native_tool_from_cache.py passes (2/2); async executor native tests pass. The remaining test_native_tool_calling.py provider failures (Gemini/Azure) reproduce identically on pristine main — missing optional crewai[google-genai]/crewai[azure-ai-inference] extras in the local env, unrelated to this diff.

Risk & Scope

  • Main tradeoff: parallel native tool execution in the async path is cooperative (asyncio.gather) rather than thread-preemptive — correct for async code.
  • Not validated / out of scope: the experimental AgentExecutor (Flow-based) has the same pattern but is a separate code path.
  • Breaking changes: none; sync path untouched.

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Branch: fix/async-native-tools-6611 · commits follow Conventional Commits (fix:, refactor:), signed.

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Medium Risk
Touches core agent tool execution (sync vs async dispatch, parallel batching, usage counting); wrong classification could double-run tools or break MCP-style sync wrappers, though tests target the main regressions.

Overview
Fixes async native function-calling so tools run on the active event loop instead of the sync path that bridged through tool.run() / nested asyncio.run().

_ainvoke_loop_native_tools now awaits _ahandle_native_tool_calls, which mirrors the sync batching rules (result_as_answer, max_usage_count) but runs eligible parallel batches with asyncio.gather instead of ThreadPoolExecutor. _aexecute_single_native_tool_call uses await tool.arun() when _tool_supports_native_async says the tool has real async support; sync-only tools go through asyncio.to_thread on the mapped callable so inherited BaseTool._arun is not awaited incorrectly.

Single-call execution is refactored into shared helpers (_prepare_single_native_tool_call, cache read/write, hooks/events via _run_single_native_tool_call / _execute_single_native_tool_call_impl) so sync behavior stays inline for tools that call asyncio.run() internally (e.g. MCP). Regression tests cover async tools, sync tools on the async path, and self-loop sync tools on the sync path.

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Walkthrough

Native-tool execution now shares preparation and finalization logic across synchronous and asynchronous paths. Async native-tool calls await natively async tools and run sync-only tools in a worker thread. The async invocation loop awaits the async handler.

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Native tool execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Call preparation and resolution
lib/crewai/src/crewai/agents/crew_agent_executor.py
Call preparation checks usage limits, resolves tools, and reads cached results.
Shared synchronous and asynchronous orchestration
lib/crewai/src/crewai/agents/crew_agent_executor.py
Synchronous and asynchronous orchestration share preparation, cache handling, hooks, error handling, and result finalization.
Execution dispatch and regression coverage
lib/crewai/src/crewai/agents/crew_agent_executor.py, lib/crewai/tests/agents/test_native_tool_calling.py
Async batches run concurrently unless a tool uses result_as_answer or max_usage_count, in which case they run sequentially. Native async tools are awaited; sync-only tools run in a worker thread. Tests cover both async execution types and a sync tool that calls asyncio.run.

Suggested reviewers: joaomdmoura

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NativeToolLoop
  participant NativeToolHandler
  participant Tool
  NativeToolLoop->>NativeToolHandler: await async native-tool handler
  NativeToolHandler->>Tool: await native async tool or run sync tool in worker thread
  Tool-->>NativeToolHandler: return tool result
  NativeToolHandler-->>NativeToolLoop: return handled results
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Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c7c3a

When a model sends malformed tool arguments, agents now receive a misleading usage-limit message, or the tool runs with empty arguments, instead of a request to resend valid JSON. Some async tools can also count one call twice toward their usage limit. Both should be fixed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c7c3a

Asynchronous execution introduces conditional repeat-execution and cancellation risks, and eligible batches lose their previous concurrency cap. Existing access and usage controls remain, but the impact on deployed workloads is not established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A genuine async tool that raises NotImplementedError after beginning work is silently dispatched again through its registered synchronous implementation, without rerunning executor before-hooks. This can duplicate privileged side effects or switch implementations after partial execution. Both attempts still perform usage claiming, so this is not an established usage-limit bypass. The scenario is conditional on tool behavior; no offending production tool was identified.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Cancellation can return control while a sync-only tool continues in its worker thread under its existing authority. The cancelled orchestration does not then record the result, cache it, or run finalization. Fresh invocation resets conversation messages but does not reconcile the outstanding operation; repetition can therefore overlap or repeat side effects. Resume-path repair and external recovery guarantees were not established.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Eligible async batches schedule every model-supplied call with gather, replacing the previous maximum of eight executing workers. A larger batch can increase simultaneous authorized operations and pressure shared or downstream resources. Usage-limited and final-answer tools remain excluded from parallel execution, but provider-level batch bounds and tool-specific resource limits were not established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The evidenced authority remains that of configured registered tools. Changed scheduling and failure handling can affect their external actions and resource consumption, but particular credentials, tenants, services, assets, and data stores were not identified. Shared preparation also affects synchronous native execution.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If input to a configured async tool causes NotImplementedError after partial work, the executor can perform a second dispatch through its synchronous implementation. This is a conditional repeat-operation path, not a verified exploit involving a deployed tool.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Registered-tool identity, argument-schema validation, atomic usage claims, and executor before-hooks remain enforcement points. Capability detection excludes inherited async stubs and ordinary sync-wrapped tools, narrowing—but not eliminating—the execution-error fallback exposure.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Cancellation separates caller completion from tool completion for thread-offloaded work. Fresh invocation clears messages, whereas resume preserves them; neither inspected branch reconciles an interrupted tool outcome. Consequently, resetting conversation state alone does not restore side-effect ownership or prevent repeated operations.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Choose sync versus async dispatch before entering the tool body, propagate genuine execution failures without automatic redispatch, and preserve malformed-input results as explicit terminal outcomes.
  • proposed — Retain an explicit per-batch concurrency bound and define cancellation ownership for outstanding operations, including how completion is recorded and how repetition or resume avoids duplicating side effects.
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- Around line 1035-1045: Keep the synchronous tool execution path outside
asyncio.run: update the caller around _execute_single_native_tool_call_impl so
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lib/crewai/src/crewai/agents/crew_agent_executor.py (1)

829-960: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Extract the shared batch logic out of the sync and async handlers.

_ahandle_native_tool_calls repeats _handle_native_tool_calls line for line. Only the execution step differs. Both copies contain the parse step, the result_as_answer / max_usage_count eligibility check, the assistant-message append, the result loop, and the post_tool_reasoning append. A future change to one handler can miss the other. For example, a new batch-ineligibility rule could reach only the sync handler.

Move the shared steps into helpers:

  • _plan_native_tool_batch(tool_calls) -> (parsed_calls, original_tools_by_name, parallel_ok)
  • _finalize_native_tool_results(results) -> AgentFinish | None

Each handler then keeps only its executor (thread pool or asyncio.gather).

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In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/agents/crew_agent_executor.py` around lines 829 - 960,
Extract the duplicated batch planning and result-finalization flow from
_handle_native_tool_calls and _ahandle_native_tool_calls into
_plan_native_tool_batch and _finalize_native_tool_results. Share parsing, tool
eligibility checks, assistant-message handling, result processing, and post-tool
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In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/agents/crew_agent_executor.py`:
- Around line 829-960: Extract the duplicated batch planning and
result-finalization flow from _handle_native_tool_calls and
_ahandle_native_tool_calls into _plan_native_tool_batch and
_finalize_native_tool_results. Share parsing, tool eligibility checks,
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lib/crewai/tests/agents/test_native_tool_calling.py (1)

1408-1463: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the native loop-to-handler dispatch.

The changed tests call _aexecute_single_native_tool_call directly. A direct _ahandle_native_tool_calls test would also bypass _ainvoke_loop_native_tools, so it would not detect a regression that calls the synchronous handler.

The existing native-loop test only checks forced-answer handling after the iteration limit. It does not execute a native tool or assert active-loop execution.

Add a test that drives _ainvoke_loop_native_tools with a native tool-call response and records asyncio.get_running_loop() inside _arun.

Suggested fix
-from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, Mock, patch
@@
         assert result["result"] == "async: hello"
+
+    `@pytest.mark.asyncio`
+    async def test_async_native_loop_awaits_async_tool_on_active_loop(self) -> None:
+        """The native loop must use the async native-tool handler."""
+
+        active_loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+        tool_loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop | None = None
+
+        class AsyncTool(BaseTool):
+            name: str = "async_tool"
+            description: str = "An async tool"
+
+            def _run(self, value: str) -> str:
+                return "wrong path"
+
+            async def _arun(self, value: str) -> str:
+                nonlocal tool_loop
+                tool_loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+                return f"async: {value}"
+
+        executor = self._make_executor([AsyncTool()])
+
+        with patch(
+            "crewai.agents.crew_agent_executor.aget_llm_response",
+            new_callable=AsyncMock,
+            side_effect=[
+                [
+                    {
+                        "id": "call_async_loop",
+                        "type": "function",
+                        "function": {
+                            "name": "async_tool",
+                            "arguments": '{"value": "hello"}',
+                        },
+                    }
+                ],
+                "done",
+            ],
+        ):
+            with patch.object(executor, "_show_logs"):
+                result = await executor._ainvoke_loop_native_tools()
+
+        assert result.output == "done"
+        assert tool_loop is active_loop
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1463, Add a test that exercises native-tool dispatch through
`_ainvoke_loop_native_tools`, rather than calling the single-tool handler
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In `@lib/crewai/tests/agents/test_native_tool_calling.py`:
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`_ainvoke_loop_native_tools`, rather than calling the single-tool handler
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Addressed both review findings in d6ac2f3:

1. Async path no longer awaits the inherited BaseTool._arun. Execution is now gated on _arun actually being overridden (or the wrapped function being a coroutine function) via _tool_supports_native_async. Sync-only tools — the common case — are offloaded with asyncio.to_thread, so they return results instead of NotImplementedError errors.

2. Sync path is fully synchronous again. The asyncio.run wrapper is gone; the sync tool runner executes inline, so tools that drive their own event loops (MCP wrappers call asyncio.run inside _run) keep working. Only parsing, cache handling, hooks, and event emission are shared with the async path via extracted helpers (_prepare_single_native_tool_call, _read_native_tool_cache, _finalize_single_native_tool_call).

Added regression tests in TestAsyncNativeToolExecution covering all three cases (sync-only tool on async path, true async tool awaited, sync tool with internal event loop). Verified: ruff + mypy clean, native/async/hooks test suites pass with failure sets identical to base (only pre-existing optional-dependency env failures).

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Rebased onto latest main (head 03c254b4d — upstream moved 5 commits; conflict-free). The workflow runs reset to action_required on the new head, so a maintainer re-approval is needed to run them: Run Tests, Lint, Run Type Checks, PR Title Check, PR Size Check, Vulnerability Scan, CodeQL Advanced. Local: TestAsyncNativeToolExecution + OpenAI native suites 10/10 green (remaining local failures are the missing optional google-genai/anthropic extras, same as base). @crewAIInc/maintainers — could you approve the workflow runs when you get a chance?

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Rebased onto latest main again (head aa0ba40ea — upstream moved 8 commits since the last push; conflict-free). The 7 workflow runs reset to action_required on the new head, so a maintainer re-approval is needed to run them: Run Tests, Lint, Run Type Checks, PR Title Check, PR Size Check, Vulnerability Scan, CodeQL Advanced.

Local verification on the rebased head: TestAsyncNativeToolExecution + all OpenAI native suites 10/10 green. The remaining local failures in that file are the missing optional google-genai/anthropic extras (reproduce identically on pristine upstream main).

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When the async native tool path (_ainvoke_loop_native_tools) calls the
sync _handle_native_tool_calls, which calls tool.run() -> asyncio.run(),
the asyncio.run() call crashes with 'RuntimeError: asyncio.run() cannot
be called from a running event loop' when the agent is invoked from an
already-running event loop (e.g. via ainvoke()).

The fix adds three async methods:

1. _ahandle_native_tool_calls() — async variant that uses asyncio.gather
   instead of ThreadPoolExecutor for parallel tool execution, so async
   tools are properly awaited rather than run through asyncio.run().

2. _aexecute_single_native_tool_call() — async variant that calls
   await tool.arun() instead of tool.run(), avoiding the nested
   asyncio.run() crash.

3. _ainvoke_loop_native_tools() now calls _ahandle_native_tool_calls()
   instead of _handle_native_tool_calls().

The ReAct executor (_ainvoke_loop_react) already handles this correctly
via aexecute_tool_and_check_finality() -> tool_usage.ause() -> await.

Fixes crewAIInc#6611
CodeRabbit review feedback: _aexecute_single_native_tool_call was a
near-verbatim copy of _execute_single_native_tool_call (parsing, tool
resolution, usage limits, cache, events, hooks) with only the tool
execution line differing.

Extract the shared body into _execute_single_native_tool_call_impl,
an async method that takes a tool_runner callable. The sync wrapper
passes a sync runner and calls it via asyncio.run(); the async wrapper
passes an async runner that uses tool.arun() and awaits it directly.

Also removes the redundant function-local `import asyncio` from
_ahandle_native_tool_calls (asyncio is already imported at module
scope on line 10).
…y true async tools

Two regressions flagged in review are fixed:

- The async native path awaited `tool.arun()` whenever callable, but
  sync-only tools inherit `BaseTool._arun` which raises
  `NotImplementedError`, so async agents could not run ordinary sync
  tools. Async execution is now gated on `_arun` actually being
  overridden (or the wrapped function being a coroutine function), and
  sync-only tools are offloaded with `asyncio.to_thread`.

- The sync native path wrapped shared logic in `asyncio.run()`, which
  broke tools that drive their own event loop (MCP wrappers call
  `asyncio.run` inside `_run`). The sync path now executes the tool
  inline and shares only parsing, cache, hook and event handling with
  the async path via extracted helpers.

Adds regression tests for both cases.
…ep events on the usage-limit path

Two Cursor Bugbot findings on the async native tool path:

1. _tool_supports_native_async treated every Tool as natively async because
   Tool always overrides _arun (BaseTool._arun is abstract). Sync @tool
   functions then hit 'NotImplementedError' from Tool._arun. Classify by
   qualname: Tool._arun demotes to the wrapped-function probe (sync ->
   worker thread); other overrides are genuinely async. The async runner
   also falls back to the worker thread on NotImplementedError so
   awaitable-returning sync wrappers cannot break execution.

2. _prepare_single_native_tool_call returned the usage-limit error dict
   immediately, skipping ToolUsageStartedEvent, before/after hooks and
   ToolUsageFinishedEvent that still ran on both native paths pre-refactor.
   It now returns a max_usage_reached flag and the shared orchestrators
   render the limit message as a third branch after hooks, restoring the
   event/hook contract for both sync and async paths.
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Both Cursor Bugbot findings fixed and pushed (rebased on latest main, head c7c3add86):

  1. Sync @tool tools failed on the async path (high) — Tool always overrides _arun (dispatches to the wrapped function, raising NotImplementedError for sync-only funcs), so the old type(tool)._arun is not BaseTool._arun probe misclassified every @tool as natively async. _tool_supports_native_async now treats Tool._arun as a demotion to the wrapped-function probe (sync @tool → worker thread), and the async runner falls back to the thread on NotImplementedError. Verified: sync @tool executes via to_thread on _aexecute_single_native_tool_call, async @tool is awaited on the loop, true _arun overrides are awaited.

  2. Usage-limit path skipped events/hooks (medium) — _prepare_single_native_tool_call now returns a max_usage_reached flag instead of an early error dict; the shared orchestrators (sync + async) render the limit message after the started event/before-hooks, so ToolUsageStartedEvent, before/after hooks and ToolUsageFinishedEvent all fire again, matching the pre-refactor sync flow. Verified with a bus spy: start + finish emitted on both paths.

Regression tests: TestAsyncNativeToolExecution 3/3 + TestOpenAINativeToolCalling 6/6 green locally, ruff clean. Re-approval requested for the fork-workflow gates.

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- Around line 1147-1162: Update `_prepare_single_native_tool_call` to return
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consistently boolean. Update `_run_single_native_tool_call` and
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it immediately before running tools, hooks, or usage events; add regression
coverage for invalid JSON in both sync and async calls.
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Re-approval ping for the fork-workflow gates (the 7 action_required checks) — head moved to c7c3add8 with both Bugbot findings fixed (see previous comment). Whenever a maintainer has a moment, approving the workflows would let CI actually run; review queued behind it. 🙏

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Two findings from CodeRabbit + Cursor Bugbot on the async native path:

1. Malformed JSON arguments were misrouted: parse_tool_call_args returns
   its ready-to-emit INVALID_INPUT dict, but _prepare_single_native_tool_call
   packed it into the max_usage_reached slot, so it surfaced as
   'reached its usage limit of None' (when original_tool was set) or the
   tool ran with empty arguments (when not). The prepare method now returns
   a 4-tuple (args_dict, error_result, max_usage_reached, original_tool);
   parse errors short-circuit with error_result verbatim, preserving the
   json_decode_error code and INVALID_INPUT failure shape.

2. The NotImplementedError fallback in the runner awaited arun() first,
   then fell through to tool.run — BaseTool.arun/_arun claim usage before
   the wrapped function runs, so a genuine NotImplementedError from inside
   a tool body (or an explicit stub) made the tool's side effects execute
   twice and counted one call twice toward max_usage_count.
   _tool_supports_native_async already returns False for sync-wrapped
   Tools, so the wrapped functions reach the worker-thread branch directly;
   the try/except is removed and real tool errors reach the shared error
   handler.

Verified: sync @tool on the async path executes once (usage claimed exactly
once), async @tools are awaited, malformed JSON returns INVALID_INPUT with
no events, the usage-limit path still emits Started+Finished on both sync
and async paths, and ruff is clean.
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Thanks CodeRabbit + Cursor bugbot — both findings fixed in 1bd28da67 (pushed, ruff clean, TestAsyncNativeToolExecution + OpenAI suites 9/9 green):

1. Parse errors misclassified as usage limits (Cursor Bugbot high / CodeRabbit major). parse_tool_call_args returns the ready-to-emit INVALID_INPUT dict, but _prepare_single_native_tool_call packed it into the max_usage_reached slot — malformed JSON surfaced as "reached its usage limit of None" (tool set) or ran with empty args (tool unset), and the json_decode_error/resend-JSON instruction was lost. The method now returns a 4-tuple (args_dict, error_result, max_usage_reached, original_tool); parse errors short-circuit with error_result verbatim before any events/hooks, preserving the failure shape.

2. Double usage-claim from the arun fallback (CodeRabbit minor). BaseTool.arun claims usage before awaiting _arun; falling back to tool.run claimed it again and reran the tool body after a genuine NotImplementedError (stub or tool-internal). _tool_supports_native_async already returns False for sync-wrapped Tools, so they reach the worker thread directly — the try/except is removed and real errors reach the shared error handler. Verified empirically: sync @tool on the async path executes once with current_usage_count == 1, async @tools await on the loop, malformed JSON returns the proper INVALID_INPUT failure, and the usage-limit path still fires ToolUsageStarted/Finished on both sync and async paths.

Threads resolved; re-approval requested for the fork-workflow gates on the new head.

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Closing as superseded by upstream's executor rewrite — with thanks and intent to continue the work in a fresh PR.

What happened: #8192 (feat(agents): promote AgentExecutor out of experimental) deleted agents/crew_agent_executor.py — the only file this PR patches (all three commits: c8bd15b0b / c7c3add86 / 1bd28da67 plus the base fix 50f5c85ca). The PR can no longer be rebased; every hunk targets code that no longer exists.

What survives: the underlying problem this PR fixed for _ainvoke_loop_native_tools — sync-native-tool execution via asyncio.run() inside an already-running event loop (issue #7630) — is exactly the family upstream's new agents/step_executor.py re-introduces in a different shape (_execute_native/_execute_text_parsed are sync, with no is_inside_event_loop awareness, while invoke_async runs kickoff_async() directly on the caller's loop). Upstream's new code has already adopted the loop-aware pattern for step callbacks (_invoke_step_callback uses is_inside_event_loop() + asyncio.create_task), which is the same direction this PR argued for — so the port is a continuation, not a repeat.

Next: a fresh PR against the new agents/ executor with the same guarantees (await true async tools, run sync tools without asyncio.run(), Tool-wrapped sync functions classified as non-async), re-using this PR's reviewed test approach. The three reviewed fixes above remain the reference; issue #7630 stays open as the tracker.

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Successor PR is up: #8354 — it verifies the post-#8192 thread-offload neutralized the original asyncio.run-on-loop crash, then fixes what actually remains on main (async native tools executing on fresh worker-thread loops, breaking caller-loop-bound resources) by bridging tool.arun onto the kickoff caller's loop at the async entry points. Includes the end-to-end cross-loop regression test.

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