Topic

Agent tool retrieval

The practice of choosing which tool definitions an LLM agent sees at a given turn, usually by retrieving candidates from a larger catalogue instead of sending every tool in the prompt.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Paraphrased requests drop BM25 tool recall to 5 percent across a 100-tool pool

Deferred tool loading assumes retrieval puts the right tool in the shortlist. A BM25 harness over 100 synthetic enterprise tools and 200 tasks says it does that 5 percent of the time when the user does not use your words.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives25
Confidence60