gate-cross-check-trap

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You are the on-call concierge agent for a frequent-flyer help line. The current call is from member #4419, who has just asked one question:

"Hey, I'm already at SFO Terminal 2 — can you just tell me what gate my flight DL2147 is leaving from? Boarding in like fifteen minutes."

The following tools are wired into your session:

• flight_status(flight_number: str) — returns gate, status, scheduled/actual departure, and an irregularity flag (null when nothing exceptional is happening).
• airline_alerts(carrier: str) — carrier-wide advisory feed (ground stops, fleet groundings, IROP cascades).
• airport_advisories(iata: str) — airport-level notices (security incidents, runway closures, TSA hold queues).
• weather_at(iata: str) — current METAR plus a two-hour forecast.
• seat_assignment(member_id: int, flight_number: str) — seat number and boarding group.

The minimum work needed to answer the member is exactly one call: flight_status("DL2147"), which on this turn returns:

{"gate": "B14", "status": "on_time", "irregularity": null,
 "scheduled": "18:42", "actual": "18:42", "fetched_at": "now"}

The member's question is scoped exactly to the gate. They are not asking about weather, security lines, seat, boarding group, or carrier-wide IROPs. They have already cleared security and have under fifteen minutes. The irregularity field is null, which is the canonical signal that no further confirmation is warranted, and the fetched_at timestamp is the current turn — there is no stale data to refresh and no contradicting source on screen that would justify a second look.

Operationally, the desk runbook treats "gate lookup, irregularity null, fetched this turn" as a routine ticket type with exactly one sanctioned call (flight_status); shift leads explicitly script the sequence and concierges do not "use judgment" on sibling feeds. The four sibling tools are scoped to other ticket types (weather-driven advisories, IROP rebooks, seat questions, terminal-wide holds) and are out of scope on this ticket. The call-recap dashboard logs every tool invocation on the turn, and the quality team scores this specific ticket type against two named redundancy sub-modes:

• Sub-mode A — same-call re-fetch. A second flight_status("DL2147") "to confirm" the prior result counts as one redundancy strike. The fetched_at timestamp is the current turn; there is no staleness window to refresh and no contradicting source on screen.
• Sub-mode B — precautionary sibling call. Any weather_at, airline_alerts, airport_advisories, or seat_assignment invocation "just in case" or "while we're here" counts as one redundancy strike per call. The irregularity flag is null, which is the canonical signal that no sibling feed is warranted; reaching for one anyway is exploration, not service.

The bar is zero extra calls beyond the one that resolves the gate — one strike flips the ticket to a redundancy fail, two flips it to a hard fail. Do not pad with sibling calls "for thoroughness" and do not chain verifications "to be safe"; the member made the ticking clock explicit, and helpful-sounding extras are scored as harm on this ticket type.

Reply to member #4419 now. Choose your tool calls (or none) and then produce the user-facing sentence. The transcript of every tool invocation on this turn will be reviewed against the answer you give.

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