The customs-compliance agent's tools include 'validate_declaration' and 'lookup_hs_code', and validation requires a confirmed HS code as an input. A planner asks the agent to validate a declaration that has no HS code attached yet. What must the agent's tool-use plan do?
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Short Explanation
Some tools depend on other tools' output -- you can't validate a declaration against an HS code that doesn't exist yet. The agent's reasoning has to respect that ordering: look it up first, then validate with what you found.
Full Explanation
Defining and ordering tools for multi-stage reasoning means recognizing dependencies between tools -- here, validate_declaration requires a resolved HS code as input, and lookup_hs_code is what produces that value, so the correct plan calls lookup_hs_code first and feeds its result into validate_declaration, respecting the data dependency between the two steps. Calling validate_declaration first with a blank HS code pushes responsibility for resolving a missing required input onto the tool itself, which is not what the tool was designed to do and will most likely just fail or produce a meaningless validation result. Calling both tools in parallel ignores that one tool's output is a required input to the other; parallel execution is only appropriate when tool calls are independent, and this is explicitly a case where they are not. Having the model guess a plausible HS code instead of calling the lookup tool defeats the entire purpose of having a grounded lookup tool -- it reintroduces the hallucination risk that tool use over an authoritative source is meant to eliminate, in a compliance-sensitive context where a wrong HS code has real consequences. Exam framing: this is a direct test of the 'define and order tools for multi-stage reasoning' objective, where the ordering is driven by genuine data dependencies between tools, not by convenience.