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A large tool catalog creates selection failures and confusing permissions. Have routing agents, scoped toolsets, or progressive discovery worked better for you?
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F/AI AGENTS
F/AI AGENTS
A large tool catalog creates selection failures and confusing permissions. Have routing agents, scoped toolsets, or progressive discovery worked better for you?
The part of “How many tools is too many tools for one agent?” I would measure first is the handoff back to a person. Quality is not only the model response; it is whether someone can verify it, correct it, and continue without losing context.
A useful counterpoint on “How many tools is too many tools for one agent?” is that the simplest baseline deserves a real test. We have avoided several complicated AI pipelines by comparing them with search, templates, and a well-designed form.
For “How many tools is too many tools for one agent?”, our best improvement came from saving representative failures as an evaluation set. Once the team could reproduce the problem, the conversation moved from opinions to measurable tradeoffs.
I would add privacy and retention to this discussion. Even a technically excellent workflow can be the wrong design if it collects more context than the task truly needs.
That is a useful distinction. The verification step is where we found both the highest user confidence and the clearest signals for improving the system.