A tool experiences two types of errors: transient network timeouts, and permanent user syntax errors. How…

Question

A tool experiences two types of errors: transient network timeouts, and permanent user syntax errors. How should the tool handle these errors to optimize the agent workflow?

Accepted Answer

B. Automatically retry transient network timeouts inside the tool, but immediately return syntax errors with clear validation details to the agent.

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A. Pass all errors to the agent and prompt it to retry timeouts but stop on syntax errors.

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C. Uniformly auto-retry all errors 3 times before returning a failure message to the agent.

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D. Return all errors immediately to the agent as generic 'Tool Execution Failed' messages.

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