Tool Calling

/tool_calling

The mechanism by which an agent invokes external tools, APIs, or functions to act on the world.

Strata: L2, L3 Axes: Execution Status: seed

Explainer

Tool calling is the bridge between an agent's reasoning and real-world side effects. The agent generates a structured tool invocation (name + arguments), the runtime validates and dispatches it, and the result is fed back into the agent's context. Standardized via protocols like MCP and OpenAI function calling.

Anti-Patterns

None documented yet.

Mitigations