Designing Good Tools for AI Agents
Practical rules for naming, describing, scoping and returning results from agent tools so the model picks the right one and recovers from mistakes.
Agents succeed or fail largely on the quality of their tools. A model can only act through the tools you give it, and it chooses among them by reading names and descriptions. Treat tool design as interface design for a very literal colleague: clear, small and forgiving beats clever and sprawling.
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