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Chapter 9 of 23 · Level 4 · Giving Models Tools

Tool Use & the Agentic Loop

Tool schemas, the call to result to continue loop, routing, and orchestrating many tools.

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Tools Turn a Chatbot Into an Actor
A chatbot answers. An agent acts. The one thing between them is a tool. This is how giving models tools works: schemas, the agentic loop, routing, and the MCP standard that kills bespoke glue.
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