Question 45
An Agent SDK support agent handles returns, billing disputes and account issues through MCP tools like get_customer, lookup_order, process_refund and escalate_to_human. It aims to resolve most cases on first contact — and to know exactly when to hand off to a human.
Read the full scenario lessonA customer returns 4 hours after the initial session about the same billing dispute. The previous 32-turn session contains lookup_order results showing “Status: PENDING, Expected resolution: 24-48 hours.” In testing, you observe that when resuming sessions with stale tool results, the agent often references the outdated data in responses (e.g., “I see your refund is still being processed”) even after subsequent fresh tool calls return different information. What approach most reliably handles returning customers?