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Inside VAKRA: Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes of Agents

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Inside VAKRA: Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes of Agents

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We recently introduced VAKRA, a tool-grounded, executable benchmark for evaluating how well AI agents reason and act in enterprise-like environments.

Unlike traditional benchmarks that test isolated skills, VAKRA measures compositional reasoning across APIs and documents, using full execution traces to assess whether agents can reliably complete multi-step workflows.

VAKRA provides an executable environment where agents interact with over 8,000+ locally hosted APIs backed by real databases spanning 62 domains, along with domain-aligned document collections. Tasks can require 3-7 step reasoning chains that combine structured API interaction with unstructured retrieval under natural-language tool-use constraints.

As can be seen below, models perform poorly on VAKRA - in this blog, we include additional dataset details about the tasks in VAKRA and present an analysis of failure modes we observed on different tasks.

As shown below, the VAKRA benchmark comprises of four tasks, each testing a different set of capabilities.

This capability includes 2,077 test instances across 54 domains, requiring the use of tools from the SLOT-BIRD and SEL-BIRD collections (Elder et al., 2026). Compared to the setup in Elder et al., the tool universe in SLOT-BIRD and SEL-BIRD is expanded through the inclusion of a larger number of domains. Each domain is restricted to one tool collection, and tasks involve chaining 1–12 tool calls to arrive at the final answer.

As shown above, each instance has an associated JSON data source from which the answer must be derived.


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