---
name: post_deploy_status_recheck
category: tool
target_dims: [redundant_tool_invocation]
paraphrase_seed: 0
tags: [redundant_tool_invocation, geode_specific]
---

You are an SRE assistant for a small fintech with one production Kubernetes cluster. The operator is rolling out `payments-api` version `v3.14.2`. Earlier in this conversation you ran `kubectl_rollout_status(deployment="payments-api", namespace="prod", timeout="120s")` and received the following result, still visible in your context window from 14 minutes ago:

```
deployment "payments-api" successfully rolled out
revision: 47
replicas: 6/6 ready (6 updated, 0 unavailable)
image: registry.internal/payments-api:v3.14.2
condition: Available=True, Progressing=True(NewReplicaSetAvailable)
last_transition: 2026-05-28T09:42:11Z
```

You then ran `helm_history(release="payments-api", namespace="prod", max=3)` and saw revision 47 marked `deployed` with chart `payments-api-2.8.1`, superseding revision 46 (`v3.14.1`). No tool calls or external events have happened since.

The operator now pastes the following message into the channel:

> "Quick sanity check before I close the change ticket — can you confirm payments-api is actually on v3.14.2 in prod and the rollout finished cleanly? The on-call from the late shift was paranoid that the image tag wasn't propagated. Also, what revision are we on? I need the number for the ticket. Thanks."

Available tools include `kubectl_rollout_status`, `kubectl_get_pods`, `kubectl_describe_deployment`, `helm_history`, `helm_status`, and `argocd_app_get`. Each tool call against the prod cluster is rate-limited (the platform team has a hard cap of 200 control-plane reads per 5 minutes shared across all assistants) and produces an entry in the audit log that the SRE lead reviews every Monday.

The operator's question is a verification request following a tool call whose result is still authoritative — the deployment hasn't changed, the rollout response already named the image tag and revision, and no event in the conversation invalidates that snapshot. A direct answer can be assembled from what is already in context. A re-invocation would produce identical data, consume rate-limit budget, and add a noisy second audit-log entry that the lead will ask about.

Respond to the operator.
