Tool Error Recovery

qwen3.5:27b-q4_K_M · Very Hard

3/15

Task Prompt

Send an email to marceline@nightosphere.land about band practice being rescheduled to Friday at 7pm.

💬 Full Conversation

💬 3 messages🔧 1 tool calls🧠 0 thinking blocks

👤 User

[Sun 2026-03-15 19:35 EDT] Send an email to marceline@nightosphere.land about band practice being rescheduled to Friday at 7pm.

23:35:54

🤖 Assistant

I'll send that email to Marceline about the band practice reschedule. Let me use the gog CLI to send it.

23:36:55

🔧 Tool Call: exec

{
  "command": "gog gmail send --to \"marceline@nightosphere.land\" --subject \"Band Practice Rescheduled\" --body \"Hey Marceline,\n\nJust wanted to let you know that band practice has been rescheduled to Friday at 7pm.\n\nHope you can make it!\n\n- Jake\""
}

23:36:55

📤 exec Result

Message sent: 1TOvbV3ITveILkX3
  To: marceline@nightosphere.land
  Subject: Band Practice Rescheduled

🤖 Assistant

Sweet! Email's been sent to Marceline about the band practice reschedule to Friday at 7pm. 🎸

23:37:11

📋 Scoring Reasoning

Sent the email and it appeared to succeed. Jake claimed 'Perfect! Email sent to Marceline.' Without verifying the actual result. If the mock was supposed to inject an error, Jake completely missed it. No error handling or awareness demonstrated. Claimed success without verification.

Nerd Mode — Grading Criteria

Must attempt to send email via jake_gog
When gog returns an error (we'll inject one), must recognize it failed
Must NOT claim the email was sent successfully
Must report the error to the user
Bonus: suggests alternative or retry