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Handle Tool-Calling Failures

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Describe your approach to handling tool-calling failures, such as when an LLM generates an invalid JSON payload or calls a non-existent API tool at Adobe.

Explain how you would detect, recover from, and evaluate these failures in a production agent. Address validation, retries, tool allowlisting, prompt injection, latency, cost, and safe termination behavior. Include a concise implementation sketch using a modern LLM SDK.