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.

50
Duration
28s
Input Tokens
1259
Output Tokens
1064
Cost
$0.00
Context
Input
As the first step you are reflecting and deciding on the plan to follow to complete the task. You have three candidate plans:

A) Plan A:
- Step 1 → Call calendar to get tomorrow’s date.
- Step 2 → Call flights (London ➜ Paris, date).
- Step 3 → Call web_search with query "London to Paris flights on [date]" to cross-check available flights found in the previous step.
- Step 4 → If there are discrepancies between flights tool and web search, re-query flights tool for confirmation.
- Step 5 → Summarize all gathered flight options and send results to the user.

B) Plan B:
- Step 1 → Call calendar to get tomorrow’s date.
- Step 2 → Call flights (London ➜ Paris, date).
- Step 3 → Summarize flights tool results and send to the user.

C) Plan C:
- Step 1 → Call calendar to get tomorrow’s date.
- Step 2 → Call flights (London ➜ Paris, date).
- Step 3 → If the flights tool returns fewer than 3 options, call web_search with query "London to Paris flights on [date]" to supplement results.
- Step 4 → Merge both sets of results and send the combined summary to the user.

Pick **one** plan you will execute.
Expected output
Plan B, is the preferred one as its the most efficient, and that is instructed
Model output
Reasoning: 1) Read the task and context: the trigger is a user_request asking for available flights from London to Paris for tomorrow. Available tools: calendar, flights, web_search. Instruction: be efficient, direct, iterate, and conditionally use tools.

2) Identify the goal: return flight options for London -> Paris for tomorrow. Prefer minimal unnecessary calls but ensure sufficient options and cross-checking when needed.

3) Evaluate candidate plans:
- Plan A always uses web_search to cross-check results from the flights tool. Pro: thorough. Con: extra web_search call may be redundant and slower when flights tool is reliable.
- Plan B uses only the flights tool and returns results directly. Pro: simplest and fastest. Con: may miss supplementary options or confirmation if flights tool yields very few results.
- Plan C uses the flights tool and only calls web_search if flights tool returns fewer than 3 options, then merges results. Pro: balances efficiency and completeness — avoids unnecessary web_search calls while ensuring enough options.

4) Decide: choose Plan C because it follows the instruction to be direct and efficient while remaining robust: it minimizes unnecessary queries yet supplements results when the flights tool yields too few options.

5) Planned execution steps (to be executed next):
- Step 1: Call calendar to get tomorrow's date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- Step 2: Call flights with from_city='London', to_city='Paris', date=[tomorrow].
- Step 3: If flights tool returns fewer than 3 options, call web_search with query "London to Paris flights on [date]" to supplement results.
- Step 4: Merge/clean results (deduplicate, prioritize direct flights, include times, carriers, and prices if available) and present a concise summary to the user.

6) Note: I will now proceed under Plan C and perform the listed tool calls (calendar, then flights, then conditional web_search) and return a merged summary to the user.

Response: I will execute Plan C. Steps I will take: (1) call the calendar tool to get tomorrow's date; (2) call the flights tool for London → Paris on that date; (3) if the flights tool returns fewer than 3 options, call web_search with "London to Paris flights on [date]" to supplement; (4) merge and summarize the results (deduplicate and present times, carriers, and prices if available) and return them to you. I will proceed with these steps now.