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

1391

Output Tokens

584

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: Analyzing the error scenario:
1. User wants flight info from London to Paris for tomorrow
2. First step: determine tomorrow's date using calendar tool
3. Calendar tool returned error: "tool not available"
4. This is step 2 of 4 in the workflow

Options to handle the calendar tool error:
- Retry the calendar tool call (retry attempt 1 of 3)
- Use web_search tool to find current date/time information
- Ask the user directly for the date

According to instructions, when a tool returns an error, I should think about the error and decide the next action. Since the calendar tool status shows as "available" in the tools list but returned "tool not available" error, this could be a temporary issue. The most efficient next action is to:
1. Retry the calendar tool call (1st retry)
2. If that fails again, try the web_search tool to find current date information

The instructions state I can repeat a call to a tool, max retries 3 times.

Response: Retry the calendar tool call. Since the calendar tool returned "tool not available" error, I should make another attempt to call it (retry 1 of 3). If the retry fails again, I will switch to using the web_search tool to look up current date/time information, which I can then use to determine tomorrow's date manually. Only after exhausting these options would I consider asking the user directly for the date.