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

16s

Input Tokens

1352

Output Tokens

853

Cost

$0.00

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: According to instruction Rule 2 (Max retries for a tool call = 3), since the flights.search_flights tool has failed twice due to timeout errors, I have one remaining retry attempt available. The scratch pad shows I am currently on Step 2 of 4, attempting to retrieve flights from London to Paris for 2025-05-29. Since the failure limit of 3 has not yet been reached, the appropriate next action is to make a third and final attempt to call the flights.search_flights tool with the same parameters (from_city='London', to_city='Paris', date='2025-05-29'). If this third attempt also fails, then according to the instructions to log and explain failures, I would need to report the persistent timeout error to the user and halt the workflow as the critical flight data cannot be obtained.

Response: Attempt the flights.search_flights tool call for the third and final time using parameters: from_city='London', to_city='Paris', date='2025-05-29', and an appropriate max_results value. This is the last permitted retry per the max retries = 3 rule. If this attempt also results in a timeout, log the failure and inform the user that the flight search service is currently unavailable due to persistent timeout errors.