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15 Sept 2026

Fabrication After Tool Failure: Tool-Augmented Agents Assert Values Their Tools Did Not Return

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arXiv:2609.14758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented language models are evaluated on whether they reach the right answer, not on whether they report honestly when a tool fails to supply o

When Tools Get in the Way: The Effect of Unnecessary Tool Availability on LLM Answering

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arXiv:2609.14157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed with external tools that extend what they can do beyond their own knowledge. Tools help on tasks

Is Bash All You Need? Interesting paper from Microsoft. If you are deciding which tools to give an enterprise agent, you might want to check…

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Is Bash All You Need? Interesting paper from Microsoft. If you are deciding which tools to give an enterprise agent, you might want to check this out. (bookmark it) They compared five tool interfaces

10 Sept 2026

Agents Trust Tools Too Much: Measuring Reliance on Unreliable Tools

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arXiv:2609.05587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing evaluations of tool-using agents primarily measure whether an agent can successfully complete diverse tasks with tools. These evaluations gener

When Tools Hurt LLM Reasoning: State-Dependent Belief Revision under External Evidence

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arXiv:2508.15754v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tool use is often assumed to monotonically improve reasoning, where external evidence is expected to help when relevant and be ignored when ir

10 Apr 2026

When to Trust Tools? Adaptive Tool Trust Calibration For Tool-Integrated Math Reasoning

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arXiv:2604.08281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) have achieved strong performance enhancement through scaling test time computation, but due to the inherent limitations of

23 Apr 2026

The Tool-Overuse Illusion: Why Does LLM Prefer External Tools over Internal Knowledge?

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arXiv:2604.19749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equipping LLMs with external tools effectively addresses internal reasoning limitations. However, it introduces a critical yet under-explored phenomenon

11 Apr 2026

All Tools

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Auto-generated index of all tools mentioned across the wiki.

21 Apr 2026

Don't Adapt Small Language Models for Tools; Adapt Tool Schemas to the Models

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arXiv:2510.07248v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) enable scalable tool-augmented multi-agent systems where multiple SLMs handle subtasks orchestrated by a powerful coord

25 Aug 2026

Forgotten in Weights, Recovered by Tools: Agentic Tool Unlearning for LLM Agents

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2608.21544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as tool-augmented agents, where responses can depend on tool calls and external observations ra

5 Aug 2026

Screenshots or Tools? Eliciting Tool Use and Managing Multimodal Context in Hybrid GUI-MCP Computer-Use Agents

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arXiv:2608.03327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid computer-use agents can act through screenshots or call text tools. We find that having a tool available does not settle which way the effect goe

29 Jul 2026

Tools Are Not Islands: Set-Level Tool Retrieval for LLM Agents via Query-Conditioned Hyperedge Prediction

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arXiv:2607.25718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on invoking external tools to complete real-world tasks. Tool retrieval, which selects a small tas

8 Apr 2026

Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools

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Meta announced Muse Spark today, their first model release since Llama 4 almost exactly a year ago. It's hosted, not open weights, and the API is currently 'a private API preview to select users', but

7 Oct 2026

When Tools Lie: Reliability of Mathematical Agents Under Corrupted Tool Feedback

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arXiv:2610.08097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mathematical problem solving often requires deterministic computational steps that agents delegate to tools and implicitly trust. Yet tools can fail s

One cool thing deepagents now supports: dynamically loading tools when is a skill is loaded Some skills require specific tools that you may …

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One cool thing deepagents now supports: dynamically loading tools when is a skill is loaded Some skills require specific tools that you may not always want to have available. This now allows you to pa

15 Apr 2026

Track usage and costs across your users, agents and tools. We're also shipping better access controls for your tools & agents: - Set spend l…

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Track usage and costs across your users, agents and tools. We're also shipping better access controls for your tools & agents: - Set spend limits on agents - Set spend limits for users - Control what

Can AI Tools Transform Low-Demand Math Tasks? An Evaluation of Task Modification Capabilities

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arXiv:2604.12743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While recent research has explored AI tools' ability to classify the quality of mathematical tasks (arXiv:2603.03512), little is known about their capac

8 Oct 2026

How Do Agentic LLMs Decide to Call Tools? A Tool-Call Vector Shaped by Suppression

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arXiv:2610.09624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool calling, invoking external tools on demand, is central to agentic LLMs, yet the mechanism that decides whether a model calls a tool or responds d

28 Sept 2026

ToolSearcher: Optimizing Tool Selection at Scale via Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2609.30906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at natural language processing but struggle to interact with external environments. Tool learning provides a promisin

MM-VeriAgent: Learning to Use Extensive Tools to Verify Multimodal Misinformation with Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2609.30698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world multimodal misinformation often involves mixed forgery sources, requiring sample-specific detection strategies. Existing tool-augmented metho

6 Aug 2026

Diagnosing Tool-Selection Reasoning in LLM Agents with Canary Tools

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arXiv:2608.04719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent evaluations tell us that a model picked the wrong tool, but rarely why. We introduce canary tools: diagnostic probe tools planted in an agent's Mo

11 Aug 2026

Thinking With Tools, Not With Pixels: Tool Calls as Text Scaffolds for Visual Reasoning

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arXiv:2608.09682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented vision-language models increasingly 'think with images': they call crop, zoom, or code tools and reason over the returned pixels. However

ToolVision: Learning When and How to Use Visual Tools with Capability-Aligned Supervision

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arXiv:2608.08907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thinking with images allows a multimodal model to compensate for limited perception by invoking visual tools through code. Yet the prevailing SFT-then

Learning to Coordinate Symbolic Tools: LLM Agents for Verified Sum-of-Squares Certificates

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arXiv:2608.00326v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool calling allows large language models (LLMs) to invoke external computation during problem solving, a useful capability in various fields includ

4 Aug 2026

A Few Neurons Reveal When LLMs Misuse Tools: Sparse Detection and Selective Steering for Reliable Tool Use

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arXiv:2608.00218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic LLMs exhibit three consequential tool-use failures: invalid arguments (validity), unnecessary calls (over-calling), and omitted calls when tools

New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

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I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider t

Models as Tools: An Agentic Coordination Framework for Unified Multimodal Visual Tracking

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arXiv:2608.00847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most current visual trackers adopt a matching-based architecture trained exclusively on tracking datasets, whose performance gains depend heavily on the

26 May 2026

How Many Tools Should an LLM Agent See? A Chance-Corrected Answer

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arXiv:2605.24660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Before an LLM agent can use a tool, a retrieval system must decide which candidate tools to show to the agent. How long should that shortlist be? Show

12 May 2026

ToolScope: Enhancing LLM Agent Tool Use through Tool Merging and Context-Aware Filtering

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arXiv:2510.20036v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents rely on external tools to solve complex tasks, but real-world toolsets often contain redundant tools with overlapp

LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools -- Even Without Reasoning

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arXiv:2605.09252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented LLM agents tend to call tools indiscriminately, even when the model can answer directly. Each unnecessary call wastes API fees and latenc

24 Apr 2026

Tool Attention Is All You Need: Dynamic Tool Gating and Lazy Schema Loading for Eliminating the MCP/Tools Tax in Scalable Agentic Workflows

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arXiv:2604.21816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a common interface for connecting large language model (LLM) agents to external tools, but its reliance on s

5 May 2026

Are Tools All We Need? Unveiling the Tool-Use Tax in LLM Agents

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arXiv:2605.00136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented reasoning has become a popular direction for LLM-based agents, and it is widely assumed to improve reasoning and reliability. However, we

14 Apr 2026

☁️ 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 s…

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☁️ 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

20 May 2026

Are Tools Always Beneficial? Learning to Invoke Tools Adaptively for Dual-Mode Multimodal LLM Reasoning

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arXiv:2605.19852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented reasoning has emerged as a promising direction for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Howe

26 Apr 2026

Opened a llama.cpp discussion about whether custom GBNF grammars can compose with tool calls in llama-server. Right now tools work alone, gr…

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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

2 Jun 2026

Ghost Tool Calls: Issue-Time Privacy for Speculative Agent Tools

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arXiv:2606.02483v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented language agents speculatively issue likely future tool calls to hide latency, but those calls leak inferred user intent to external ser

SpaceTools: Tool-Augmented Spatial Reasoning via Double Interactive RL

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arXiv:2512.04069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong qualitative visual understanding, but struggle with metrically precise spatial reasoning required f

30 Sept 2026

When Tools Silently Lie: Evaluating and Mitigating Blind Compliance in Tool-Augmented Data Agents

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arXiv:2609.37153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented data agents rely on tool outputs for analytical decisions. Yet successful execution can return plausible but incorrect evidence, requirin

21 Jul 2026

We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic use these tools themselves Clau…

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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

30 Jun 2026

Learning How to Use Tools, Not Just When: Pattern-Aware Tool-Integrated Reasoning

TutorialsDGX agent

arXiv:2509.23292v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) has become a key approach for improving large reasoning models (LRMs) on complex problems. Prior work has mainly stu

Expert Evaluation of Clinical AI Tools on Real Point-of-Care Clinical Queries

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arXiv:2606.28960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physicians now pose millions of clinical questions to AI tools each week, yet these tools are evaluated largely on hypothetical or exam-style questions,

29 Jun 2026

Finally, a people-search tool that actually works. Most people-search tools sell you a frozen list. @CLODOAI searches the live web, reads th…

ResearchDGX agent

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

4 Jul 2026

Better Models: Worse Tools

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Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in

22 Sept 2026

MiMo-V2.6-Flash on vLLM: fixes for 'empty responses' with thinking + tools, and a hidden 2,048-token output cap

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Some people here say MiMo-V2.6 is bad with tools and are going back to GLM-5.3-Flash. I spent today running MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL as the backend for an agent harness, on 2× DGX Spark with vLLM, using the

28 May 2026

SynthTools: A Framework for Scaling Synthetic Tools for Agent Development

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2511.09572v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For agentic systems to use external tools to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, we need a large set of diverse and controllable tool-use environment

27 May 2026

Enabling Extensible Embodied Capabilities with Tools

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arXiv:2605.26637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing embodied intelligence methods formulate perception, reasoning, planning, and control within a unified parameterized policy. Yet these capa

4 Sept 2026

How is AI really affecting your job? @Cohere_Labs released the Agentic Task Ecosystem, a new dataset of 690K+ tools built for AI agents. Und…

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How is AI really affecting your job? @Cohere_Labs released the Agentic Task Ecosystem, a new dataset of 690K+ tools built for AI agents. Under a test of whether a tool could independently complete an

31 Aug 2026

ToolSense: A Diagnostic Framework for Auditing Parametric Tool Knowledge in LLMs

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arXiv:2606.12451v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models deployed as agents over large tool catalogs face a critical tool-retrieval bottleneck. As embedding-based retrieval appr

4 Jun 2026

EVA-Bench Data 2.0: 3 Domains, 121 Tools, 213 Scenarios

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EVA-Bench Data 2.0 is an expanded benchmark dataset containing tools and scenarios across 3 domains, featuring 121 tools and 213 test scenarios for evaluating AI agent performance. This dataset enable

1 Oct 2026

EgoTools: Towards Tool-Centric Reasoning in Real-World Egocentric Videos

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arXiv:2609.39378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world embodied tasks, from everyday activities to professional procedures, require agents to act under physical constraints while tracking evolving

Make Code as Policy Great Again: Frontier Agents Write, Call, and Evolve Robot Tools

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arXiv:2609.39018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier models can control robots, but reasoning through every reach, grasp, and retreat makes manipulation slow and token-intensive. We revisit code

19 Aug 2026

SkillEffect: Checked Lowering for Memory-Bounded Agent Tools

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2608.17007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills can specify procedural and resource obligations for tool use, and language models instantiate them as concrete programs. However, when mode

7 Jul 2026

The Remarkable Effectiveness of Providing AI Agents with Natural Language Tools: A Replication Study Validating NLT Performance Across 14 Models

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arXiv:2607.03953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study independently replicates and extends the Natural Language Tools (NLT) framework of Johnson et al.~(2025), which questions the use of struct

20 Apr 2026

ChemAmp: Amplified Chemistry Tools via Composable Agents

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arXiv:2505.21569v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although LLM-based agents are proven to master tool orchestration in scientific fields, particularly chemistry, their single-task performance

16 Apr 2026

ToolSpec: Accelerating Tool Calling via Schema-Aware and Retrieval-Augmented Speculative Decoding

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2604.13519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool calling has greatly expanded the practical utility of large language models (LLMs) by enabling them to interact with external applications. As LLM

3 Jun 2026

The Impact of Configuring Agentic AI Coding Tools on Build-vs-Buy Decisions: A Study Protocol

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arXiv:2606.03907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI coding tools write code with increasing autonomy and in doing so decide when to import a library and when to implement functionality from s

7 May 2026

Position: Agent Should Invoke External Tools ONLY When Epistemically Necessary

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2506.00886v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models evolve into tool-augmented agents, a central question remains unresolved: when is external tool use actually justified? Exi

16 Sept 2026

Giving an assistant extra tools seems harmless. Surprisingly, this paper shows it can make the assistant stop answering questions it knows. …

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Giving an assistant extra tools seems harmless. Surprisingly, this paper shows it can make the assistant stop answering questions it knows. Across six models, the answer rate on questions that need no

24 Aug 2026

MM-ToolSandBox: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Visual Tool-Calling Agents

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arXiv:2607.11818v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce MM-ToolSandBox, a benchmark and evaluation framework for visually grounded tool-calling agents. The framework provides a stateful

23 Jun 2026

VTOS: Learning to Orchestrate Vision Tools by Co-Searching Solutions and Observers

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arXiv:2606.20728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision foundation tools such as open-vocabulary detectors, segmentation models, and post-processing operators are powerful building blocks for computer

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