Writing effective tools for AI agents

by Anthropic

How to design, evaluate and improve the tools an agent calls.

Anthropic discusses shaping tool interfaces and evaluating how agents use them. The emphasis is on testing whether a tool helps accomplish the task rather than merely exposing an API.

Level: Advanced
Models: any
Category: Agents and harnesses
Tags: tools
Source date: 2025-09-11
Added: 2026-10-18
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Status: ok

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