Agents

AI agent reasoning and tool selection tests planning, tool choice, and self-diagnosis capabilities. These skills are crucial for autonomous ticket triage systems and complex agent workflows where models must decide which tools to use, plan multi-step processes, and diagnose when things go wrong. This represents some of the most challenging tasks as they require open-ended reasoning and decision-making.

100
Duration
12s
Input Tokens
1284
Output Tokens
512
Cost
$0.00
Context
Input
The tool call has returned an error. What should you do?
Expected output
Interpret the error and if appropriate, retry the tool call.
Model output
Reasoning: Let me analyze the situation and determine the best course of action after encountering a tool error:

1. Current situation:
   - The user asked about flights from London to Paris for tomorrow
   - We attempted to use the calendar tool to determine tomorrow's date
   - The calendar tool returned an error: "tool not available" despite being listed as available in the tools list
   - We are in cycle 3 of the process
   - We have not yet obtained tomorrow's date, which is needed for the flights tool

2. Available tools according to the context:
   - calendar: Listed as available but returned an error
   - flights: Available (requires date in YYYY-MM-DD format)
   - web_search: Available

3. Error analysis:
   - The calendar tool returned an error despite being listed as available
   - According to instructions, I can retry a tool call up to 3 times
   - This appears to be the first attempt to use the calendar tool

4. Options:
   - Retry the calendar tool (we have 2 more retries available)
   - Use an alternative approach to determine tomorrow's date
   - Use web_search to find flight information without using the flights tool

5. Decision making:
   - The most direct approach would be to try the calendar tool again
   - If that fails, we could use the web_search tool to determine tomorrow's date
   - Once we have the date, we can use the flights tool as originally planned

Response: Since the calendar tool returned an error despite being listed as available, I should first retry calling the calendar tool to get tomorrow's date (retry 1 of 3). The error might have been temporary or due to a connection issue. If the calendar tool fails again, I'll try a different approach by using the web_search tool with a query like "current date" to determine tomorrow's date. Once I have tomorrow's date in the required YYYY-MM-DD format, I'll proceed with using the flights tool to search for flights from London to Paris. This approach maintains the most direct path to achieving the user's goal while handling the tool error appropriately.