Track · 2:30 · Liner note
Tools Back on Their Pegs
When an AI agent uses tools, each call is a round trip of request, execution and result, so fewer, well-designed calls keep the agent faster, cheaper and easier to follow.
A tidy workshop returns every tool to its peg. An AI agent does the same with its calls: ask, get a result, take the next step. Tools Back on Their Pegs is about keeping those round trips few and clean, since each call costs latency and tokens and each result lands in the context window.
Design tools to return what the agent needs and no more. Batch where you can, run independent calls in parallel, cap the size of results and make errors specific enough to act on. A well-behaved toolset makes every run shorter and easier to audit.