Tool use
AssessTechniques
The practice of enabling models or agents to call external tools and APIs.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 40%.
Evidence (2)
- 4Hugging Face Blog·4/15/2026researchInside VAKRA: Agent Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes
This Hugging Face blog post examines VAKRA, focusing on how agents reason, use tools, and where they fail. It highlights failure modes as a way to better understand the limits and behavior of agentic systems in practice.
- 7OpenAI Blog·3/17/2026model_releaseOpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 mini and nano
OpenAI has released GPT-5.4 mini and nano, smaller and faster variants of GPT-5.4. The models are optimized for coding, tool use, multimodal reasoning, and high-volume API and sub-agent workloads.