AI agents

Tool errors and retry recovery

• Classifying Tool Errors So an Agent Can Act on Them
• Retry Prompts That Quote the Failing Tool Call Back to the Model
• Tool Error Recovery: Structuring Failures for Retries
• A Queue Owner Table per Error Class: Who Gets the Escalation
• A Retry-After Field: Passing Backoff Hints From Tool to Agent
• A Token Budget for the Retry Turn
• Classifying Tool Errors by Whether a Retry Can Fix Them
• Measuring Repair Success Rate per Error Class
• Quoting a Truncated Error Without Losing the Failing Argument
• Testing a Tool Gateway Against a Fake for Every Error
• When a Tool Fails Silently: Detecting Empty Successes