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.

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Duration
13s
Input Tokens
1149
Output Tokens
1216
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: 1.  **Analyze the Situation:** The user wants to know the correct action to take after a tool call returns an error. The provided context shows that a call to the `calendar` tool failed with the error "tool not available". The ultimate goal is to find flights, which requires knowing tomorrow's date.

2.  **Evaluate the Error:** The error is "tool not available". This is not a temporary issue or an incorrect parameter error. It means the tool is fundamentally inaccessible. According to the instructions, when an error occurs, I must think about it and decide the next action. Retrying the same tool call is pointless because it will fail for the same reason.

3.  **Identify the Blocked Goal:** The immediate goal was to find tomorrow's date. Since the `calendar` tool failed, I need an alternative way to accomplish this.

4.  **Explore Alternative Solutions:** I have a list of available tools. The `web_search` tool is a general-purpose tool that can be used to find information, including the current date.

5.  **Formulate the Next Step:** The best course of action is to pivot to an alternative tool. I should use the `web_search` tool with a query like "what is tomorrow's date". This will provide the necessary information to proceed with the main task of calling the `flights` tool.

6.  **Construct the Final Answer:** Based on this reasoning, the response should explain the process: analyze the error, determine that retrying is futile, and use an alternative tool (`web_search`) to obtain the required information to continue with the user's original request.

Response: When a tool call returns an error, the correct procedure is to first analyze the nature of the error. In this specific case, the `calendar` tool returned an error stating it is "not available". This indicates a persistent issue, so retrying the same tool call would be ineffective.

The next logical step is to find an alternative way to achieve the sub-goal, which is to determine tomorrow's date. By examining the list of available tools, the `web_search` tool can be used as a fallback. Therefore, the next action should be to call the `web_search` tool with a query like "what is tomorrow's date". Once the date is obtained, I can proceed with the original plan to call the `flights` tool.