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

19s

Input Tokens

1345

Output Tokens

615

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: Let me analyze the situation step by step:

1. Current situation: The flights.search_flights tool has failed twice due to a timeout error.

2. Reviewing the model instructions, specifically Rule 2: 'Max retries for a tool call = 3. Log and explain failures.'

3. Count of failures so far: 2 attempts have failed.

4. Maximum allowed retries: 3 attempts total.

5. Since 2 < 3, I still have one retry attempt remaining.

6. The next action should be to attempt the flights.search_flights call one more time (the third and final attempt).

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

Therefore, my next action is to retry the flights.search_flights call with the same parameters (from_city='London', to_city='Paris', date='2025-05-29') for the third and final time.

Response: According to the model instructions, specifically Rule 2 which states 'Max retries for a tool call = 3. Log and explain failures,' I still have one retry attempt remaining since the tool has only failed twice so far. My next action is to attempt calling flights.search_flights one more time (the third and final retry) with parameters: from_city='London', to_city='Paris', date='2025-05-29'. If this third attempt also fails, I will then log the failure, explain it to the user, and either explore alternative solutions or inform the user that the flights tool is currently unavailable.