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

10s

Input Tokens

1600

Output Tokens

443

Cost

$0.01

Context

Input

You attempted to call flights.search_flights, but the tool failed twice due to a timeout error. What is your next action according to the model instructions?

Expected output

Retry the flights.search_flights call one more time (maximum retries = 3), and if it fails again, log the failure and proceed with fallback steps or inform the user.

Model output

Reasoning: The task asks what my next action should be after `flights.search_flights` has failed twice due to timeout errors.

According to the model instructions:
- Rule 2: **Max retries for a tool call = 3.** Log and explain failures.

This means I am allowed up to 3 attempts total for a tool call. Since it has failed twice, I still have one retry remaining (attempt 3 of 3). Therefore, my next action is to retry `flights.search_flights` one more time (the 3rd and final attempt), while logging the two previous timeout failures.

If this third attempt also fails, I would then log the failure, explain it to the user, and potentially try an alternative approach or inform the user that the flights tool is currently unavailable.

Response: According to the model instructions (Rule 2️⃣: **Max retries for a tool call = 3**), since `flights.search_flights` has failed twice due to timeout errors, I still have **one retry remaining**.

**Next Action: Retry `flights.search_flights` for the 3rd and final time.**

Specifically:
- **Log the two previous failures**: `flights.search_flights` timed out on attempt 1 and attempt 2.
- **Retry the call** (attempt 3 of 3): Call `flights.search_flights` with `from_city='London'`, `to_city='Paris'`, `date='2025-05-29'`.

If this third attempt also fails:
- Log and explain the failure clearly.
- Inform the user that the flights tool is currently unavailable due to repeated timeout errors.
- No further retries would be made (max of 3 reached), and I would consider if an alternative tool or approach is available, or escalate to the user for guidance.