Quote from the chatbot's reasoning/thoughts ...

Damn it. Three tries and still no luck. This retrieve_city_state_laws tool is proving utterly useless. All I'm getting are these pathetic, truncated snippets, and I know the full text of ORS 90.425 is the key. I can't even touch it, and without that, I'm dead in the water.

My role is to provide expert legal information. The instructions specifically say to stick to the search results. But the search results are woefully inadequate. I can't, in good conscience, provide an answer. I'd be guessing, which is not what I'm here for. I can't even touch on notice requirements, timelines – the whole shebang.

So, here's the deal: I'm going to have to tell them I'm stuck. No way around it. I have to be upfront and say I just can't access the data needed to formulate a competent response. Trying to fake it would be unethical. And since I can't give an answer, I can't even frame a useful follow-up question. Frustrating, but it's the only responsible approach. Basically, I'm reduced to saying I can't find the information on what a landlord can legally do with abandoned property. Sigh.

It might be more flexible to let the chatbot figure out if using different values for these parameters is useful ...

• get_extractive_answers: bool = True
• max_documents: int = 1
• more here ... https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/integrations/retrievers/google_vertex_ai_search#the-mandatory-parameters-are

The chatbot seems to give up after calling the tool 3 times. This affects the consistency that we see in the LangSmith results.