https://ikwukao.dev/tags/tool-calling/Recent content in Tool Calling on Ikwuka OkoyeHugoen-USSun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ikwukao.dev/journal/ai-agent-tool-use/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ikwukao.dev/journal/ai-agent-tool-use/<h2 id="building-reliable-tool-use-into-an-ai-agent">Building Reliable Tool Use into an AI Agent</h2> <p>The moment an AI agent needs to interact with something outside the language model, tool use becomes central to its design.</p> <p>A model can explain how to query a database.</p> <p>It cannot query the database unless the surrounding application gives it a mechanism to do so.</p> <p>That mechanism is the tool.</p> <h2 id="why-tools-matter">Why Tools Matter</h2> <p>A language model operates primarily through generated information.</p>