ResearchResearch paperAgents & Tool Use · Safety & Alignment1 source · Oct 20, 2026

RITE: Evaluating End-to-End Resilience to Silent Tool Errors in E-Commerce Agentic Systems

Tool-using LLM agents increasingly answer e-commerce queries through multi-step tool interactions.

Key points

  • The expected output of a tool call can shift between agent development and execution, allowing a plausible but incorrect value to be returned without an explicit failure signal.
  • To study agents' resilience across this end-to-end process, we formulate Silent-error Resilience Task, an interactive task that evaluates whether they complete the original query after a silent error corrupts an intermediate state.
  • We introduce RITE, a benchmark built from human-authored industrial workflows and production-log-derived inputs.
  • To enable controlled and reproducible evaluation, we use a semantic error taxonomy to inject errors into fixed workflow prefixes, freeze recorded tool behavior, and let agents continue freely.

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