Inadequate Tool Provision

Detects when agents lack the tools needed to complete assigned tasks. Catches hallucinated tool names, missing capabilities, and suboptimal workarounds.

Examples

• Agent attempts to call search_database but no such tool is provisioned
• Agent hallucinates tool name web_search_v2 that doesn't exist
• Agent manually scrapes data because it lacks a proper API client tool
• Tool call fails repeatedly because the tool's capabilities don't match the task

Detection methods

Tool Inventory Check

Compares attempted tool calls against available tools

Hallucinated Tool Detection

Identifies tool names not in the provisioned set

Workaround Detection

Flags manual approaches that suggest missing tools

Capability Gap Analysis

Matches task requirements against tool capabilities

Subtypes

• missing tool
• hallucinated tool
• tool capability gap
• workaround detected