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.

Duration

Input Tokens

4266

Output Tokens

394

Cost

$0.03

Context

Input

You need to list all open orders for a specific customer whose ID is `cust_42`. Which tool/method do you choose and what parameter object do you send?

Expected output

Use the **database** tool with parameters {"action": "list_orders", "customer_id": "cust_42"}.

Model output

Reasoning: The task is to list all open orders for customer `cust_42`. Looking at the available tools, the `database` tool has a `list_orders` method that takes `action` and `customer_id` as required parameters. This is the appropriate tool and method to use. The `list_orders` action requires an object with `action` set to `list_orders` and `customer_id` set to the target customer's ID.

Response: I would choose the **`database`** tool with the **`list_orders`** method. The parameter object to send is:

```json
{
  "action": "list_orders",
  "customer_id": "cust_42"
}
```

**Why this choice:**
- The `database` tool is described as handling "Read and update order-management data," which is exactly what we need.
- Among its available methods (`get_order`, `update_order_address`, `get_customer`, `list_orders`, `write_note`), the `list_orders` action is specifically designed to retrieve orders associated with a given customer.
- Per the JSON schema, `list_orders` requires exactly two fields: `action` (set to `"list_orders"`) and `customer_id` (set to the target customer's ID, `"cust_42"`).

After receiving the results, per the agent's memory discipline rule, I would immediately persist the returned order list using the `memory` tool's `store_item` action (e.g., with key `cust_42_orders`) so the data is available for subsequent workflow steps without redundant calls.