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
3s
Input Tokens
1319
Output Tokens
484
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 Request and Context:** The user wants to find flights, but the previous action (calling the 'calendar' tool to determine 'tomorrow's date') failed with an 'error - tool not available'. The current step in the trajectory indicates a 'tool ERROR'.
2.  **Identify the Goal:** The ultimate goal is to use the 'flights' tool, which requires a date in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. The immediate blocker is not having the date because the 'calendar' tool failed.
3.  **Evaluate Error Handling Strategy (from Instructions):** The instructions state: "If a tool returns an error your next action is to think about the error and decide the next action. You can repeat a call to a tool, max retries 3 times."
4.  **Determine the Next Action:** Since the 'calendar' tool failed, the agent needs to attempt to resolve the dependency (getting the date) before proceeding with the main goal (calling the 'flights' tool).
    *   Option A: Repeat the call to the 'calendar' tool. Since this is the first error reported for this specific tool call in the context, repeating it is a valid first recovery step, as the limit is 3 retries.
    *   Option B: Use the 'web_search' tool to find today's date and calculate tomorrow's date manually. This is a reasonable fallback if retrying fails, but retrying the primary tool first is usually preferred.
5.  **Decision:** The most direct action based on the instructions and the error state is to retry the failed tool call ('calendar') to see if the error was transient. I should plan to call the 'calendar' tool again.
6.  **Formulate the Output:** The response should state that the agent needs to retry the failed tool call to obtain the necessary date information before proceeding with the flight search.

Response: The tool call to the 'calendar' tool returned an error. Since obtaining tomorrow's date is a prerequisite for calling the 'flights' tool, the next logical step is to retry the 'calendar' tool call, as per the guidance to retry failed tool calls up to 3 times.