Topic

Agent tool use and retrieval

The practice of giving language model agents access to external documentation, APIs and search at inference time, including who decides when a lookup happens and how much retrieved material enters the context.

Current clusters

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A nine-agent pipeline injects canonical API examples because its agents can skip the MCP lookup

The team behind a nine-agent code generator reports about 30,000 tokens and 15 to 20 Pro-tier model calls per request, and attributes its reliability to strict output schemas and context the agents cannot decline to read.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption28
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence42