Designing Tools for Agents — AI Agent Development Roadmap
Building tools models can use correctly
Steps in Designing Tools for Agents
- Read-Only vs Write/Action Tools — beginner · Different risk profiles for tools that inform versus tools that act
- Composable vs Monolithic Tools — beginner · Deciding tool granularity for flexibility versus simplicity
- Sandboxing Agent Actions — beginner · Limiting the blast radius of an agent's tool use
- Versioning and Evolving Agent Tools — beginner · Changing tool interfaces without breaking existing agent behavior
- Documenting Tools for Reliable Model Use — beginner · Writing tool descriptions clear enough that a model rarely misuses them
Part of
- AI Agent Development roadmap — the full learning path