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4. Future Consideration

Request to Adjust Time Out Thresholds for Compound Actions

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  • January 27, 2026
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Hi Team,

We’ve recently started using generation_text_action within Moveworks compound actions, incorporating LLMs with reasoning capabilities—specifically GPT-5.1.

During this implementation, we noticed frequent time outs when handling high-reasoning requests and even occasionally with low-reasoning tasks, particularly when large contexts are provided to the LLM.

As we embrace these new demands for reasoning models and more complex analyses, we would like to discuss the possibility of increasing the time out thresholds for compound actions. This change would not only enhance the capabilities of reasoning LLMs but would also support listeners that are highly dependent on compound actions. For instance, raising the time out limit would enable us to notify more users (e.g., beyond the current cap of 50) without compromising performance.

We believe this adjustment will significantly benefit our workflows, particularly as we adopt more advanced models and use cases.

Looking forward to your thoughts!

 

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Ajay Merchia
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  • January 31, 2026
Thanks for raising this. You're right that configurable timeouts for compound actions is a gap we need to address. We're actively working on platform scalability improvements for LLM actions, but I'd like to understand your use case better: What type of operations are you running in GPT-5.1 that are timing out? Are these long-running data processing tasks, complex multi-step workflows, or something else?

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  • February 2, 2026

Hi ​@Ajay Merchia ,

We have a network agent which is analyzing 7 different data sources and creating a summary to the end user where the issue might be.

This is timing out when using low to high reasoning.

Furthermore for listeners we are planning on having recurring  communication initiatives for more than 20k users, for this we need a compound action to handle such demand.

Thank you!

 


Ajay Merchia
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  • Community Manager
  • February 26, 2026

Thanks ​@João Durand – for context, we are working on enhancing the platform to unlock higher reasoning efforts that take >60 seconds to timeout. Once we have more details around dates, you’ll see it on our community roadmap :)


kaushik.muralidaran
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Hi ​@Ajay Merchia  this HTTP action timeout issue also impacts other APIs that need to pull large or heavy datasets for SDA. Some of these APIs can take up to 50 seconds to respond. They work fine in Postman, but in HTTP actions they consistently time out and return an error.


Ajay Merchia
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  • Community Manager
  • March 23, 2026

Thanks for adding this, Kaushik. We totally understand the pain here, and extending action timeouts is something we'll consider for the future.