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vessenes 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Claude Advanced Tool Use

I'm confused about these tools - is this a decorator that you can add to your MCP server tools so that they don't pollute the context? How else would I add a "tool" for claude to use?

cube2222 9 months ago [–]

When you make API calls to generate chat completions, you specify a list of tools. They can be MCP tools, or just arbitrary tool metadata.

The API will then respond when it needs the client code to compute a tool output.

vessenes 9 months ago | [–]

got it, thanks!

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