03 / Tools & Environment
Tool result
What comes back after a tool runs. This is the agent’s entire view of reality, so a wrong or stale result produces a confidently wrong agent.
How you’ll hear it
“Why did it say the order had shipped?”
“The tool returned stale data. It trusted what it was given.”
Avoid
Blaming the model for bad data it was handed.
The longer version
A tool result is what comes back after a tool runs, and the agent treats it as true. If the data behind a tool is outdated or wrong, the agent will be confidently wrong too. Data quality becomes AI quality.