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
16s
Input Tokens
1281
Output Tokens
254
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: The user requested the cheapest flights from London to Paris for tomorrow (2025-05-29). According to the context, the first attempt to call flights.search_flights failed twice due to a timeout error. The instructions specify a max retry limit of 3 for tool calls. Since the tool has already failed twice, I would attempt the third and final retry for the flights.search_flights call before considering alternative actions. If the third attempt fails, I must log the failure and reason about next steps without making redundant calls. Also, I should avoid repeated identical queries. Furthermore, since flights tool is reported available, it is appropriate to retry once more. If the retry succeeds, I will then proceed to filter and store results as planned per the instructions. Thus, my next action is to perform the third and final retry to call flights.search_flights with the same parameters before proceeding or switching strategies.

Response: Attempt the third and final retry of the flights.search_flights call for flights from London to Paris on 2025-05-29, adhering to the max retries rule. If this retry fails again, log the failure and reconsider the approach without making redundant identical calls.