Question

You are building a Foundry agent that must call an internal shipping API to look up delivery estimates. The API requires a destination postal code and an optional expedited boolean flag. During testing, the model frequently invokes the function without supplying the postal code, causing runtime errors. What is the most effective way to reduce these malformed tool calls?

Accepted Answer

Define the tool's JSON schema with the postal code listed in the 'required' array and provide clear parameter descriptions

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Lower the temperature parameter to 0 so the model produces deterministic tool invocations

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Increase the max_tokens limit so the model has room to generate the complete argument object

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Add a retry policy on the endpoint so failed calls are automatically re-executed until they succeed