Tool latency is fine, but overall AI task latency is poor once tools are added. How would you investigate?

Instruction: Describe how you would debug latency when the slowdown appears above the tool layer.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would debug latency when the slowdown appears above the tool layer.

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I would profile the whole workflow, not just tool execution time. Once tools are added, latency often accumulates in orchestration overhead, repeated model turns, unnecessary planning steps, approval waits, result post-processing, and serial execution where parallelism was possible.

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