Topic

AI agent tool calling

The pattern in which a language model invokes external functions through declared schemas, together with the executor code that validates arguments and dispatches the call.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

tenant-invariant denies an agent's tool call when the server cannot resolve the resource owner

The experimental Rust crate keeps tenant_id out of the tool schema and compares an authenticated actor's tenant against ownership that the server resolved itself, allowing the call only when the two values match.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption8
Hype gap−10
Incentives30
Confidence55

build1 publisher

Your prompt is not a precondition: check the facts outside the model before money moves

A dev.to writeup moves tool guards out of the prompt and into the executor, where a database check runs before dispatch. The same design fails open when the check itself breaks.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption12
Hype gap+10
Incentives78
Confidence55