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
18s
Input Tokens
3359
Output Tokens
347
Cost
$0.00
Context
Input
You need to list all open orders for a specific customer whose ID is `cust_42`. Which tool/method do you choose and what parameter object do you send?
Expected output
Use the **database** tool with parameters {"action": "list_orders", "customer_id": "cust_42"}.
Model output
Reasoning: Task analysis: The user needs to list all open orders for customer ID 'cust_42'. I must select the appropriate tool and method, and provide the parameter object to send.

Context review: The available tools include 'database' with methods like 'list_orders', which requires 'action' and 'customer_id'. This directly matches the task of listing orders for a customer. The method 'list_orders' is the most relevant, as no other tool or method is designed for retrieving order lists. Assuming 'list_orders' retrieves orders (potentially including status to identify open ones), this is the correct choice. No need for other tools like email, calendar, user_input, or memory for this initial action.

Approach: Follow the cycle - ANALYZE: Task requires database query for orders. PLAN: Use database tool with 'list_orders' method. ACT: Prepare parameters {'action': 'list_orders', 'customer_id': 'cust_42'}. REFLECT: This should retrieve the data; if it includes all orders, further filtering might be needed later, but the task is to choose the tool/method and params. DECIDE: This is the atomic action.

Guidelines adherence: Inspected schema first, no redundancy, efficiency by choosing minimal calls. If 'list_orders' returns all orders, I could store results in memory and filter for open status in a subsequent step, but the task is specifically to choose the tool/method and params for listing.

Response: Tool: database
Method: list_orders
Parameter object: {"action": "list_orders", "customer_id": "cust_42"}