# Provide more specific and helpful tool failure error messages

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| **ID** | `bug_009` |
| **Priority rank** | 2 |
| **Severity** | high |
| **Category** | bug |
| **Time range** | 173.5s – 178.6s |
| **Key moment** | 175.0s |
| **Affected element** | Error message system |

> ⚠️ **About the red box in `screenshot.png`:** It is an AI-generated guess at the affected
> UI element. **It is correct most of the time but not always** — sometimes the actual
> element is near the box rather than exactly inside it, and occasionally the box lands
> on an unrelated element.
>
> When acting on this bug:
> 1. Read the **narration quote** and **detailed visual walkthrough** below first — they
>    describe what is actually wrong.
> 2. Look at the **full screenshot**, not just inside the red box.
> 3. If you need precise pixel coordinates, consult `omniparser_elements.json` in this
>    folder — it lists every UI element the detector found on this screen, with bounding
>    boxes and confidence. You can search by label or look at elements adjacent to the
>    red box.

## Description

The user complains about receiving generic and unhelpful 'tool failure' error messages, such as 'I don't have the access to this tool'. These messages don't help the user diagnose or resolve the underlying issue.

## What the narrator said

> "she keeps getting weird um tool failure you like I don't have the access to this tool. I don't like that."

## Detailed visual walkthrough

The screen displays a dark-themed chat application called "Athena v3". The interface features a left sidebar with a list of chats and a main chat area. At the bottom of the main area, a user has already typed a prompt into the text input field: "give me an infographic that looks fucking beautiful, absolutely. like cartoons and images and everything, showing me the current state of the iran war and all that."

While the prompt is visible, the narrator explains a recurring problem with the application's error messages. "She keeps getting weird, um, tool failure," the narrator says, "like, 'I don't have the access to this tool.' I don't like that." This commentary highlights the user's frustration with generic and unhelpful feedback when the system fails.

The user then sends the message by clicking the blue "Send" button to the right of the text input field. The prompt is immediately added to the chat log as a light-blue, right-aligned message bubble. Below the user's message, a system response appears, stating, "Athena has your message and will work through it." The text input field is now cleared, showing its placeholder text. The video ends with the system processing the request, setting the stage for the potential tool failure the narrator described.

## Suggested fix

Implement a more robust error handling and messaging system. Instead of generic failures, provide specific details about what went wrong (e.g., 'API key for [Tool Name] is invalid', 'Network timeout when calling [Tool Name]', '[Tool Name] returned an error: [details]').

## Bounding boxes drawn on `screenshot.png`

- **status message area** at `[ymin=829, xmin=165, ymax=845, xmax=495]` (normalized 0-1000)

## Files in this folder

- `clip.mp4` — Video clip (173.5s – 178.6s, plus 2s padding on each side)
- `screenshot.png` — Key frame at 175.0s with red bounding box (see note above on accuracy)
- `screenshot_raw.png` — Same frame, no annotations
- `clip_description.md` — The detailed walkthrough above as a standalone file
- `bug.json` — Structured data
- `omniparser_elements.json` — every UI element detected on this screen by the OmniParser YOLOv8 model, with pixel-space bounding boxes and confidence scores. Useful if the red box in `screenshot.png` is on the wrong element — you can pick a different one from this list.
- `motion/` — Additional keyframes showing motion/state-change (if any):
  _(none — this is a static issue)_
