When performing image-related tasks, the Ki assistant is still experiencing instances where the response suggests that the assistant performed the task but no images are embedded in the response. The assistant prints status indicators for image tasks and the response body suggests that the task was completed successfully. The quantity of used tokens & time duration appear to be consistent with the overhead for such a task. I have noticed that the response will no longer include the standard "Generated content expires in 10 minutes" line when the images were not embedded, but the rest of the response suggests that they were. The response doesn't mention any technical problems so its not clear if the issue stems from the downstream AI services, the assistant itself, or the chat front end. Sometimes it even looks like it starts to type the markdown embed for the image (i.e. 
Example 2:
https://kagi.com/assistant/aed3706c-ecf0-406d-bdd3-56616471b51a
Example 3:
Previous example still fails after another retry (same thread as example 2).
Ideal Assistant Behavior
The artifacts from image tasks, when completed successfully, should always be embedded in the assistant's response.
Assistant should not say or otherwise suggest that an image was included in the response when it was not.
If the assistant encounters any technical errors or limitations that would cause images to be omitted, the response should say so, along with a brief description of the same, rather than suggesting the task completed successfully and that images were included in the response. Any status indicators (e.g. "Edited Image...", "Response Planned...", etc.) should also reflect this.
Instances where failure is a foregone conclusion (e.g network issues, difficulties with upstream services) should lead to halting behavior to prevent the assistant from needlessly consuming AI tokens on a failed effort. As mentioned, the assistant now appears to only print "generated content expires in 10 minutes" when the response will include an image and omits that line when it doesn't, so perhaps there's already some indication that there's an issue.
Upon receiving the termination signal that a response has finished, the text of the response should be parsed by an independent script to confirm that it contains the regex patterns for markdown image embeds. This would flag failures even if the assistant doesn't realize it is omitting images.
Token consumption in failure cases should be limited only to error messages and relevant descriptions or background information to that effect (for the user's awareness). Any token consumption associated with the assistant's image tools and downstream 3rd party services/APIs would be nullified.
The assistant should make a good faith effort to follow the user's instructions, and any failures or difficulties should lead to error handling like what was described previously. That is, the assistant should not share an irrelevant or unwanted image which is contrary to the user's request simply to exempt itself from the failure or avoid token nullification/refunds.
