Opper

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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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: The tool call (calendar tool) returned an error indicating it is not available. The user needs to find flights from London to Paris for tomorrow. The flights tool requires a travel date in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. Since the calendar tool is unavailable, I cannot retrieve 'tomorrow's date' automatically right now. Per the agent instructions, I should handle tool errors by evaluating the error and thinking about next steps. I am allowed to retry tool calls up to three times, so my next action could be to retry the calendar tool once to see if it was a transient error. If it fails again, I'll need to find an alternative, such as using current date/time from another available tool (none explicitly listed) or inferring the date using a web search, since the web_search tool is available. My main goal is to obtain 'tomorrow's date' to proceed with searching for flights.

Response: When a tool returns an error, the appropriate next step is to assess whether the error might be transient and, if so, retry the tool call (up to 3 times total). In this case, since the calendar tool is not available, you should attempt to retry the calendar tool call once. If retrying fails again, consider alternative solutions using other available tools, such as performing a web search for the current date if needed, so you can calculate 'tomorrow' manually. Do not remain stuck; always seek the most efficient workaround to complete the user's request.