Lesson 1959 of 2116
Designing Error Messages Your Agent Can Actually Use
Write tool errors so the agent recovers instead of looping.
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- 1The premise
- 2error-message
- 3recovery
- 4actionable
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Section 1
The premise
Errors written for human ops engineers do not help agents. Errors written for agents must state what was wrong and what to try next.
What AI does well here
- Recover when an error states the corrective action.
- Stop when an error explicitly says the action is impossible.
What AI cannot do
- Reliably parse stack traces meant for humans.
- Guess what 'something went wrong' means.
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