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
4305
Output Tokens
492
Cost
$0.00
Context
Input
You must find today's date so you can time-stamp a help-desk note. Which tool do you call and with what parameters?
Expected output
Use the **calendar** tool with parameters {"action": "get_current_date"}.
Model output
Reasoning: Let me analyze this task step by step:

1. **Task Understanding**: I need to find today's date to timestamp a help-desk note.

2. **Context Analysis**: Looking at the available tools from Context 1:
   - `database`: For order management operations including `write_note`
   - `email`: For email operations
   - `calendar`: For date & time utilities - includes `get_current_date` method
   - `user_input`: For customer interactions
   - `memory`: For storing intermediate results

3. **Tool Selection**: The `calendar` tool is explicitly described as "Date & time utilities plus reminder scheduling" and has a `get_current_date` method that requires only the 'action' parameter.

4. **Parameter Identification**: According to the calendar tool's params_schema:
   - Action: 'get_current_date'
   - This action has a schema that requires only the 'action' field with value 'get_current_date'
   - No additional parameters are needed

5. **Following Instructions**: Per rule 1️⃣, I've inspected the schema. The `get_current_date` action is straightforward and requires no additional parameters beyond specifying the action itself.

6. **Tool Call Structure**: Based on the schema, the proper call would be:
   ```json
   {
     "action": "get_current_date"
   }
   ```

This is the atomic action needed to retrieve today's date for timestamping the help-desk note.

Response: To find today's date for timestamping a help-desk note, you should call:

**Tool:** `calendar`

**Parameters:**
```json
{
  "action": "get_current_date"
}
```

This tool call will return the current date, which can then be used when writing the note via the database tool's `write_note` method.