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Lesson · Intermediate · 25 min

Tools that fail well

Designing tool results so the agent can be honest about failures instead of inventing around them.

Claude
ChatGPT
Any assistant
agents
lesson

Inside this lesson

You will: Return structured failures for every tool
You will: Let the model retry within limits

Sections: 3
Exercise: Yes

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