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// The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling // Tool calling is a design choice, and the defaults are quietly costing accuracy. How so? New research releases a generation-spanning comparison of programmatic t

New in LangSmith Fleet: Tool access controls and usage tracking. 📊 Track cost and usage by user, agent, and tool from a single dashboard 💳 Set spend limits per user or team to prevent surprises ✅ Cont

☁️ Salesforce tools now in Fleet One of the most requested features we've gotten, and it's now a first-class supported tool in Fleet! Just sign in with your Salesforce account, and start using it imme

Opened a llama.cpp discussion about whether custom GBNF grammars can compose with tool calls in llama-server. Right now tools work alone, grammar works alone, but tools+grammar doesn't. If you use lla

We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic use these tools themselves Claude Tag (Claude Code via Slack) is already landing 65% of the

Finally, a people-search tool that actually works. Most people-search tools sell you a frozen list. @CLODOAI searches the live web, reads the signals, and tells you why this specific person, right now

Nous Research announced an enhancement to their Hermes AI model where terminal tool calls will now be displayed in formatted markdown codeblocks when the display tool calls feature is enabled. This im

I'm really excited about this as a new tool in our interpretability tool kit In a new paper, we present NLAs, an unsupervised method for converting an LLM's internal state into human-readable text. I'

I prefer my design tool to be more closely integrated with where my agents work. I spent a few hours building my own design tool (inspired by Claude Design) inside my orchestrator. I can use this with

Big new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library for talking to hundreds of different LLMs - reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses support, server-side tools, smarter logging and a whole lot more ht

A developer expressed enthusiasm for the emerging convergence of `AGENTS.md`, agent skills (SKILL.md), and tool configuration toward portable, cross-tool interfaces rather than siloed, tool-specifi...

Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) used Randal Olson's Tufte Test tool, developed by Goodeye Labs, to improve the visual quality of a machine learning benchmark plot. The Tufte Test encodes seven of Tufte'...

toodles from mickey mouse clubhouse was weirdly ahead of its time wake phrase: mickey mouse clubhouse launched in 2006, and “oh toodles” trained toddlers on the assistant wake phrase years before siri

Simon Willison expresses hope that OpenAI will commit to long-term maintenance of an AI tool, citing concerns about his own tool potentially becoming stale or discontinued. The post reflects broader u

One portal, unlimited possibilities. You can now access Modal via Tool Gateway by @NousResearch, makers of Hermes Agent. Check it out 👇 Tool Gateway is now live in Nous Portal. No separate accounts, n

Uber reportedly now caps coding agents at $1,500/month per employee per tool - seems sensible to me, but it's also an interesting hint at the value Uber thinks these tools are providing https://simonw

Hermes Agent has been updated with a Tool Search feature that enables agents to dynamically identify and load only the tools necessary for a given task, rather than loading all available tools upfront

A talk titled 'Every API is a Tool for Agents' from the AI Engineer conference is now available on YouTube, discussing how APIs can be leveraged as tools for AI agents. The presentation was facilitate

Token costs are why there will be no saas apocalypse / good dev tools are cached intelligence for agents! The popular theory goes: agents can write code, so they'll just rebuild every tool from scratc

Interesting interpretability paper on tool-using agents. The authors probe hidden states and find the model often recognizes it should call a tool, but fails to actually call one. The mismatch ranges

Tool Attention Is All You Need // Tool Attention Is All You Need // New research proposes a practical fix for the hidden 'MCP tax.' The work introduces a dynamic tool gating mechanism built on an Inte

You can now use OpenAI OAuth to generate images with Hermes Agent! Update Hermes and use the ‘hermes tools’ command to configure the image generation tool to use OpenAI! Reminder: we have a $26,000 on

OpenAI's new Euphony tool works almost exactly the same way as my Codex transcript viewer https://tools.simonwillison.net/codex-timeline?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.githubusercontent.com%2Fsimonw%2Fa9eb599

Nous Research announced documentation and resources for getting started with Hermes Agent's tool gateway feature, which appears to be a system for managing and integrating external tools within the He

@hwchase17 is right, memory creates lock-in. But not just conversations. Tool registries, hooks, agent conventions -> that's harness memory too. In my setup I define agent tools once in a shared regis

good dev tools are cached intelligence for agents! Token costs are why there will be no saas apocalypse / good dev tools are cached intelligence for agents! The popular theory goes: agents can write c

Nous Research🤝fal Congratulations to @NousResearch on the Tool Gateway launch. Developer-first infrastructure is what will define the next phase of agentic applications. Tool Gateway is now live in No

MiniMax M2.7 is a large language model now available for local deployment through LM Studio, notable for its strong performance in agentic tool calling tasks. The model requires a substantial minimum

the most important abstraction in AI agents isnt the model — its the harness it orchestrates tools, memory, prompts. this is where all the alpha is deepagents is our take: built-in tools, memory, smar

This wins the prize for sleazy misrepresentation. @mattShumer took my 2023 argument for hybridizing LLMs with symbolic tools – which is *exactly* what everyone does nowadays – and made it sound like I

Many AI tools rent intelligence. Kimi K3 on Fireworks is different. Fine-tune it on your own data, serve from US-hosted endpoints, and own the weights. Zero data retention. ICYMI yesterday, start buil

Ethan Mollick notes that image input represents the primary advanced capability of current AI models, and that tool‑use can effectively replace outputs from non‑omni models. He observes that multimoda

We just launched Sakana Translate! https://sakana.ai/translate-release/#English I personally rely on this tool every day. Huge congratulations to the team for shipping this! Standard translation tools

Open models are not just a pricing story. They are what happens when the AI stack becomes modular: models, APIs, harnesses, tools, and inference all improving independently. Together AI is building th

Introducing Computer for Counsel. Computer now connects the research databases, document tools, and matter-management systems lawyers use every day. Pull citable sources from @midpageAI, @LegalZoom, @

Cursor has launched a feature enabling users to publish and share canvases—custom applications such as dashboards, reports, and internal tools—with their teams. This update extends Cursor's canvas fun

Announcing our new collaboration with @Microsoft Organizations can now build internal tools, workflows, or data dashboards in Replit and publish directly to Microsoft Fabric with security, authenticat

Cursor has introduced an auto-review mode feature that enables AI agents to execute tool calls with reduced approval requirements while maintaining safer execution practices. This feature streamlines

Introducing Screendrop - a screenshot tool for everyone Opensource Host your own cloud with R2 + a tiny little hono worker Native Screenshot capture and editor Video recorder, editor and compressor Th

Bumblebee started as an internal tool. Making Perplexity products more secure for users starts with protecting the developer systems we use to build them. Read the full blog: https://www.perplexity.ai

Sneaky interventions, interactive installations, tools built for other artists to use. @kcimc's practice lives where machine learning, computer vision, and social technology collide. See his new inter

Introducing voice finder from Together AI, a new tool to search, filter, and audition 600+ voices across leading TTS models. AI natives can now find the right voice for their app faster by describing

This post from Swyx (a prominent figure in AI/developer experience circles) comments on Bloomberg's sudden media interest in developer experience and AI coding tools, suggesting this topic has become

Now all Replit builders can securely connect webhooks, GitHub, Slack and other external services to private apps So an internal tool can post Slack updates, or a business app can receive Stripe paymen

Now it's time to really execute. Episode 2 is coming. Two builders, two wildly different bets. One building AI voice tools from a farm. The other turning bartending gigs into a career engine. Who hits

new mode for LangChain's human in the loop middleware: respond instead of running a tool, you can return the human's interrupt response directly as the tool's output handy for 'ask user' stubs or head