Tool Use & Integrations

Tool use is what turns a language model from a text generator into something that can act — query a database, call an API, search the web, read files, or run code. This track covers the engineering reality of giving a model tools: designing tool schemas the model can call correctly, handling tool results and errors, scoping permissions so a tool cannot do more than intended, and the common built-in tools (web/search, files, code execution). It also covers when to integrate a tool directly versus through MCP, and the failure modes — malformed calls, hallucinated arguments, error loops — that separate a demo from a dependable integration.