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url_context Still Answers When the Fetch Fails — Gating on Retrieval Status Before You Trust It

The url_context tool returns a confident answer even when it failed to fetch the target page. This walks through reading url_retrieval_status from url_context_metadata to build a verification gate, plus a fallback that only finalizes an answer when the source URL was truly read.