# How to solve Discourse AI tool call timeout? Can the Discourse timeout be adjusted, and how?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [March 13, 2026, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355 "2026-03-13T08:08:35Z")
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### Author: ![shixiaochi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@shixiaochi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shixiaochi)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2026, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/1 "2026-03-13T08:08:35Z")

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Discourse AI tool Operation timed out - FinalDestination::HTTP  
How to solve the Discourse AI tool call timeout? Can the Discourse timeout be adjusted, and how?

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/2 "2026-03-14T04:19:49Z")

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Which tool are you talking about?

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### Author: ![shixiaochi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@shixiaochi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shixiaochi)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2026, 6:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/3 "2026-03-16T06:30:52Z")

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![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/d/5/ad5c0f4f7dff140815e6bcbd282677e81207c939.png)

Tool in AI times out when running tests on a script

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### Author: ![shixiaochi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@shixiaochi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shixiaochi)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2026, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/4 "2026-03-16T06:31:31Z")

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![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/a/a/3aabe582b1b7e0c57d2e59c75bd66a5fb2ab0e0e.png)

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/5 "2026-03-16T13:05:29Z")

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What is the tool!!! What is the request you are doing???

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### Author: ![shixiaochi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@shixiaochi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shixiaochi)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/6 "2026-03-17T06:31:56Z")

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A self-built knowledge base integrated in the form of a tool. Interface for requesting knowledge base retrieval.

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/7 "2026-03-17T15:07:04Z")

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Our read\_timeout is 10 seconds, does your API takes longer than that?

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### Author: ![shixiaochi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@shixiaochi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shixiaochi)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/8 "2026-03-18T02:08:30Z")

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My API takes 20 to 30 seconds, are there any good solutions?

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### Author: ![shixiaochi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@shixiaochi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shixiaochi)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2026, 7:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-discourse/398355/9 "2026-03-19T07:07:57Z")

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Can `read_timeout` be modified? How to modify it?