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programmatic tool calling

2 articles tagged programmatic tool calling.

2 articles

Agentic Jun 25, 2026 • 6 min

Your Agent Reads the Transcript Twice: Stop Piping Tool Outputs Through Context and Filter Them in Code

The 'response bloat' tax quietly doubles your token bill. Here's the prompt pattern that keeps raw tool payloads out of the model's working memory.

Agentic Jun 11, 2026 • 6 min

Your Agent Should Write Python, Not Emit JSON: Prompting for CodeAct Now That It Ships in Microsoft Agent Framework

BUILD 2026 made code-as-action a first-class pattern. Here's how to rewrite your tool-use prompts from "pick a tool" to "write code that calls the tools" and cut tokens 30-50%.