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Multi-Tool Coordination: When Agents Use 20+ Tools
Production agents may have many tools. Tool coordination — selection, sequencing, recovery — is its own discipline.
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- 1The premise
- 2multi-tool agents
- 3tool selection
- 4orchestration
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Section 1
The premise
Multi-tool agents face combinatorial complexity in tool selection and sequencing; design patterns matter.
What AI does well here
- Group tools by category to reduce model's selection burden
- Document tools with explicit when-to-use and when-not-to-use
- Build tool-result interpretation into the agent loop
- Test tool selection across diverse scenarios
What AI cannot do
- Make every tool selection deterministic
- Substitute tool count for actual capability
- Eliminate the testing burden of multi-tool combinations
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