Its weird for me. I fried my brain since they released it on this matter and so far, whenever I want it to process, I explicitly tell it to try opening the files no matter what.

I believe there is an issue in their “os” or file management system when you’re uploading files. I believe uploading the files (so not using the file ids) fixes it. Accessing these files via file ids generated at a much earlier time is not as effective as uploading the same file although its the exact same file.

I don’t know as it’s kind of a black box right now. It might be something else and what I’m getting might be coincidental.

Very varied responses here, so we need deterministic responses (seeds) for assistants too, which I think will be available one day.

If you’re struggling, add a feedback loop and have 2 agents, one will be your agent, the other will be quality control. I think then you can generate a json response to see if the quality checker approved the output of the main agent. Works for me although conversations are sometimes very long (not always, 10% of the time) but they do figure it out eventually.