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genai-toolbox/docs/en/resources/tools/utility/wait.md
prernakakkar-google ed5ef4caea feat: Create wait for tool (#885)
`
tools:
  wait_for_tool:
    kind: wait-for
description: "Tool puts chat to sleep for given timeout example 3m,10s,
5m etc. For tasks such as cluster creation no need to wait. It takes
longer time such as 8m for instance creation. Use timeout value as
default if nothing is provided"
    timeout: 10s
`

Output: 
`
prernakakkar@prernakakkar:~/senseai/genai-toolbox$ curl -X POST -H
"Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"duration": "5m"}'
http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/tool/wa
it_for_tool/invoke
{"result":"[\"Wait for 5m0s completed successfully.\"]"}
`
2025-07-16 17:18:24 +05:30

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title, type, weight, description, aliases
title type weight description aliases
wait docs 1 A "wait" tool pauses execution for a specified duration.
/resources/tools/utility/wait

About

A wait tool pauses execution for a specified duration. This can be useful in workflows where a delay is needed between steps.

wait takes one input parameter duration which is a string representing the time to wait (e.g., "10s", "2m", "1h").

{{% notice info %}} This tool is intended for developer assistant workflows with human-in-the-loop and shouldn't be used for production agents. {{% /notice %}}

Example

tools:
  wait_for_tool:
    kind: wait
    description: Use this tool to pause execution for a specified duration.
    timeout: 30s

Reference

field type required description
kind string true Must be "wait".
description string true Description of the tool that is passed to the LLM.
timeout string true The default duration the tool can wait for.