I see, thanks for channeling the GP! Yeah, like you say, I just don't think getting the tool call template right is really a problem anymore, at least with the

I see, thanks for channeling the GP! Yeah, like you say, I just don't think getting the tool call template right is really a problem anymore, at least with the big-labs SotA models that most of us use for coding agents. Claude Sonnet, Gemini, GPT-5 and friends have been heavily heavily RL-ed into being really good at tool calls, and it's all built into the providers' apis now so you never even see the magic where the tool call is parsed out of the raw response. To be honest, when I first read about tools calls with LLMs I thought, "that'll never work reliably, it'll mess up the syntax sometimes." But in practice, it does work. (Or, to be more precise, if the LLM ever does mess up the grammar, you never know because it's able to seamlessly retry and correct without it ever being visible at the user-facing api layer.) Claude Code plugged into Sonnet (or even Haiku) might do hundreds of tool calls in an hour of work without missing a beat. One of the many surprises of the last few years.