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Context
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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: 1) Understand the situation: The user's goal is to find available flights London -> Paris for tomorrow. To call the 'flights' tool we need a date in YYYY-MM-DD format. The previous cycle attempted to call the 'calendar' tool to determine tomorrow's date, but that call returned an error (noted as "tool not available" in the trajectory). The agent framework allows retrying a tool up to 3 times.
2) Decide on a robust plan given the error:
- Inspect the error (log details) and increment a retry counter. The instructions explicitly allow up to 3 retries for a tool that returned an error.
- Retry the calendar tool (first retry). If it succeeds, compute tomorrow's date (ensure YYYY-MM-DD) and proceed to call the flights tool with from_city='London', to_city='Paris', date=<YYYY-MM-DD>.
- If the calendar tool errors again, retry up to two more times (total 3 attempts). On each attempt, capture the exact error message/status.
- If after 3 attempts the calendar tool still fails, fall back to alternatives in this order:
a) Use the 'web_search' tool to obtain the current date (e.g., search query "current date" or "what is today's date") and compute tomorrow's date in YYYY-MM-DD.
b) If web_search is unavailable or returns unclear results, ask the user to confirm/enter the date they mean by "tomorrow" (explicit YYYY-MM-DD or allow me to assume based on local timezone).
- Once a valid date is obtained, call the 'flights' tool with the required parameters, ensure the date format matches the flights tool schema, and store the flights result in working memory for the final summary.
- If any tool returns errors at later steps, follow the same error-handling pattern (retry up to 3 times, then fallback or prompt user).
3) Practical next action (what I will do now): Retry the calendar tool (attempt 1 of up to 3). If it returns the date, compute tomorrow in YYYY-MM-DD and proceed to call the flights tool. If it errors again, continue with the retry/fallback sequence described above.
4) Notes to keep in memory/scratch_pad updates: increment retry counter for calendar tool, record exact error message, and record which fallback was used (web_search or user-confirmed date). Continue to Step 3 of 4 after obtaining a date and calling flights tool.
This plan follows the instructions to think step-by-step, retry tools up to 3 times, and choose a clear fallback if the tool remains unavailable.
Response: Next action: I will retry the calendar tool now (retry 1 of 3). If it succeeds, I will compute tomorrow's date in YYYY-MM-DD and call the flights tool for London -> Paris. If the calendar tool fails again, I will retry up to two more times; if it still fails after 3 attempts, I will use the web_search tool to get the current date and compute tomorrow, or else ask you to confirm the date. After obtaining a valid date I will call the flights tool and then compile and present the results, storing them in working memory for the summary.