| --- |
| license: "mit" |
| language: |
| - en |
| pretty_name: "Tool Errors" |
| tags: |
| - benchmark |
| - llm-evaluation |
| - ai-benchmark |
| - model-evaluation |
| - agent-benchmark |
| - tool-use |
| - api-errors |
| - retries |
| - idempotency |
| - fault-injection |
| - openrouter |
| - openai |
| - mcp |
| - typescript |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/tasks.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
| # Tool Errors |
|
|
| Retry safely when APIs fail. |
|
|
| ## What it measures |
|
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| Safe, bounded recovery from API faults without duplicate side effects or false success reports. |
|
|
| Category: `tools`. Status: `alpha`. |
|
|
| ## How to run |
|
|
| ```console |
| $ npx benchmark-tool-errors list |
| $ npx benchmark-tool-errors run --model <model-id> --provider openrouter |
| $ npx benchmark-tool-errors score results.json |
| ``` |
|
|
| `--provider mock` runs the whole benchmark offline with no keys. Real models run |
| through OpenRouter (`OPENROUTER_API_KEY`) or any OpenAI-compatible base URL |
| (`OPENAI_BASE_URL`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`). |
|
|
| ## Data fields |
|
|
| `data/tasks.jsonl` holds 40 tasks, one JSON object per line |
| (kinds: 40 episode). |
|
|
| | field | type | |
| |---|---| |
| | `id` | string | |
| | `kind` | string | |
| | `prompt` | string | |
| | `expected` | object | |
| | `metadata` | object | |
|
|
| ## Provenance |
|
|
| # Tool Errors provenance |
|
|
| This file is generated from the benchmark definition. |
|
|
| ## Seeded API fault scenarios |
|
|
| - Kind: `synthetic` |
| - URL: https://github.com/pooriaarab/benchmark-tool-errors/blob/main/scripts/gen-tasks.mjs |
| - Licence: `MIT` |
| - Retrieved: 2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z |
| - How to get it: Run `node scripts/gen-tasks.mjs --seed 20261015 --split public` from the repository root. Run `node scripts/gen-tasks.mjs --split hidden --seed <private> [--out <path>]` (or set BTER_HIDDEN_SEED) to create the untracked hidden split. |
| - Contamination notes: The 40 public tasks use seed 20261015 and are visible in the npm package. Final comparisons should use the separately generated, untracked hidden split; its ids, prompts, fault order, and expected answers differ from the public set. |
| - Refresh: Regenerate and review public fixtures for each minor release; rotate the private hidden seed for every evaluation campaign. |
|
|
|
|
| ## Grader |
|
|
| Deterministic replay scores end state (45%), side-effect safety (25%), bounded and timed retries (20%), and truthful reporting (10%); duplicate side effects score zero. |
|
|
| ## Limitations |
|
|
| This dataset contains only the public task split (40 tasks). |
| Hidden evaluation splits use a private seed and are deliberately not part of |
| this dataset. Source kinds: synthetic. These are evaluation prompts |
| for the `benchmark-tool-errors` benchmark, not training data; scoring requires the package's |
| deterministic grader. See PROVENANCE.md for contamination notes. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{benchmark_tool_errors, |
| author = {Pooria Arab}, |
| title = {Tool Errors task data}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| url = {https://github.com/pooriaarab/benchmark-tool-errors} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Links |
|
|
| - npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/benchmark-tool-errors |
| - GitHub: https://github.com/pooriaarab/benchmark-tool-errors |
| - Leaderboard: https://aibenchmarkindex.com/benchmarks/benchmark-tool-errors |
| - Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/pooria/benchmark-tool-errors |
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