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
1398
Output Tokens
463
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: The trajectory shows that in the previous cycle, we attempted to call the calendar tool to get tomorrow's date, but it returned an error stating 'tool not available'. However, looking at the current context, the tools list shows that the 'calendar' tool status is now 'available'. This suggests the tool may have been temporarily unavailable but is now accessible.

Given the instructions state that if a tool returns an error, I should think about the error and decide the next action, with a maximum of 3 retries allowed. Since this is cycle 3 and we're on step 2 of 4, we have room to retry.

My analysis:
1. The calendar tool appears to be available now (status: 'available' in tools list)
2. We need tomorrow's date to properly query the flights tool (which requires date in YYYY-MM-DD format)
3. This is a recoverable error - we should retry the calendar tool call
4. We haven't exceeded the maximum retry limit (3 times)
5. Alternative approach: We could use web_search to find today's date, but calendar tool is more direct and reliable

Next action: Retry calling the calendar tool to get the current date so we can calculate tomorrow's date for the flight search.

Response: The calendar tool returned an error in the previous cycle, but checking the current tools list shows it is now marked as 'available'. Since the instructions allow up to 3 retries for tool errors, and we need tomorrow's date to search for flights (the flights tool requires date in YYYY-MM-DD format), the best next action is to:

**Retry the calendar tool call** to obtain the current date and determine tomorrow's date. This is the most direct path to getting the information needed for the flights search. If the calendar tool fails again, we can consider alternative approaches such as using the web_search tool to find today's date or making reasonable assumptions about the date format.