PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A market-research assistant uses the web search server tool with max_uses set to 10. On a broad request, the response comes back with stop_reason set to pause_turn and no final answer.
How should the application continue the turn?
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Answer: Send the paused assistant content back unchanged with the same tools array
A pause_turn stop reason means the server-side loop hit its iteration limit before finishing, and the turn is continued by re-sending the response unchanged with the same tools so a pending server tool can still run. Server tools never take a client tool_result.