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Tool Use
Trends & Concepts
Integrating external tools (APIs) into model chains.
Tool use extends models by connecting them to functions such as search, databases, or actuators.
- Benefits: Access to up-to-date information, execution of external actions, computational offloading.
- Risks: Security clearance, cost control, correctness of external results.
- Best practices: Whitelisting, sandboxing, logs and receipts, rate limiting.