What is a tool?

A tool is something an agent can use: read a file, run a command, search the web, send a request.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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Without tools a model can only write text back at you. With them it can look things up and change things.

Every tool is also a risk, which is why anything that sends, posts or pays should stop and ask you first.