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Advanced tool use (2025)

Reference

Citation: Anthropic. "Advanced tool use" (24 Nov 2025). Type: guidance. Link: anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use.

What it is

Engineering guidance on advanced tool use for agents. It reports how the size of the tool surface affects token cost and tool-selection accuracy.

Role in the record

  • Grounds BP06: a large tool surface raises token cost and lowers tool-selection accuracy.

Atom-level for/against detail and quotes are in the provenance data (assets/provenance.yml), keyed by practice atom.

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