Tool Calling Design Best Practices (ANSWERED)
Medium AI Agents interview question on tool calling design best practices — architecture, trade-offs, eval, and production patterns.
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Design narrow, idempotent tools with clear JSON schemas, descriptive names, explicit error payloads, and least-privilege scopes. Fewer well-documented tools beat dozens of overlapping endpoints.
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Explain tool calling design best practices. How would you apply this when building production AI agents? Cover architecture, safety, and evaluation.
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