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Tool / Function Calling
Tool calling is how a language model reaches outside itself: it emits a structured request (a tool name plus JSON arguments) that your application executes and feeds back. The model is only as capable as the tools you give it and as reliable as your validation, because the arguments it produces are model output and must never be trusted blindly.
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