'file_search' Tool Broken (Assistants API)

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@jhakulin

First time heard about “myfiles_browser”, I guess it is not officially documented

It’s been not working right or as expected, by name, since days after the DevDay release thirteen months ago.

Assistant api, retrieval file api is not working

I have a simple json file, uploading the file using the api works just fine. When executing the assistant api it produces an message as such: It seems like there has been a misunderstanding. The file you provided isn’t accessible with the myfiles_browser tool, which is necessary for me to retrieve the file information and answer your questions. If you still need assistance with these questions, please re-upload the file and ensure it’s in a format that can be accessed by the tool, such as a tex…

And here a dump of the full text of both tools from a few weeks ago when again it is a failure:

Since 2024-Nov-16 Assistant API returning 'server_error'

In what way? That the AI never emits to the tool, producing hallucinated garbage? Or do you get an error? You can give a bug report of not using tools as instructed or as expected - but that is an AI that is at a complete loss of how to operate with the provided tool placement. That would be a problem report that looks like this for gpt-4o (by alias). First, show everybody how this operates: [image] gpt-4o tool's guidance - 752+ tokens or tool provided to all other AI models Then the …

The tool text should be under your control as a developer, instead of attempts to keep how it (doesn’t) operate some sort of secret without documentation.