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Quiz · 11 · Agent Building Blocks

14 questions from 3 pages

These are the Check Yourself questions from each page of the module, collected in course order. Each heading links back to the page the questions test. All module quizzes →

Tool Use & Function Calling

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  1. What does strict mode guarantee about tool arguments?
  2. In OpenAI strict mode, how do you express an optional parameter?
  3. Your agent has 180 tools across 12 services and often picks the wrong one. Which change addresses both context cost and selection accuracy?
  4. Why should a payment tool accept an idempotency key?
  5. Rewrite this error for the model: {"error": "E_STATE"}

Agent Memory

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  1. A coding agent keeps a list of the steps it has completed in the current task, persisted after each step so it can resume after a crash. Which memory is this?
  2. The agent learns that this team always wants tests written before code and updates its instructions accordingly. Which kind of long-term memory is that?
  3. What are Mem0's four memory-update operations?
  4. Why does Zep store facts with validity intervals instead of overwriting them?
  5. A user asks your assistant to forget everything about them. What must deletion cover?

Planning & Reasoning

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  1. According to Huang et al. (2024), when does self-correction of reasoning reliably help?
  2. What is ReWOO's main efficiency gain over ReAct?
  3. Why keep a plan in harness state when the model already reasons internally?
  4. Give two re-planning triggers that are better than 're-plan every step'.