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

Input Tokens

1511

Output Tokens

184

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: The task is to reflect and select one of the three candidate plans to find flights from London to Paris for tomorrow. All plans start by getting tomorrow's date from the calendar tool and querying the flights tool, which aligns with the available tools and user request. Plan A involves cross-checking with web_search unconditionally and handling discrepancies, which adds unnecessary steps and potential loops. Plan B is direct: get date, query flights, and summarize results, relying on the specialized flights tool without extra verification. Plan C supplements with web_search only if fewer than 3 options are returned, which introduces conditional logic that may lead to extra tool calls and merging complexity. The instructions emphasize the most direct and effective path, avoiding unnecessary loops. Plan B is the simplest, most efficient plan that directly achieves the goal using the primary flights tool.

Response: B