Writing effective tools for agents with agents
Anthropic's engineers share how to write and evaluate agent tools, and how to have Claude itself optimize tool descriptions.
Argues agents are only as good as their tools and walks through building a prototype, running evaluations, and using Claude to analyze transcripts and improve tools for MCP servers with hundreds of tools.
- Date
- Thursday, 11 September 2025
- Lab
- Anthropic
- Kind
- paper
- Access
- paper only
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