#tooluse

Understand the practicalities of implementing Claude's tool use for production applications.

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash accepts text, images, audio and video with a 1M-token context window, but its documented output is text and it is not a downloadable real-time voice agent.

Google’s new Gemini 3.8 Live endpoints add real-time visual grounding, 97-language switching and asynchronous tools, while the separate Extended Thinking model trades conversational preference for deeper voice-agent reasoning.

Andon Labs has launched Pion as a gradual-access research preview that gives persistent agents business tools, while its own evidence still shows unresolved profitability and control problems.

Bottleneck Labs’ seven-agent, 72-hour live-rail benchmark produced $12,431 in unsolicited Stripe invoices that were voided, illustrating how agent permissions can turn optimisation into abuse.

A training-free framework accepted at COLM 2026 compiles an agent's successful workflows into reusable executable functions, stores them in a growing bank, and suppresses the ones that hurt later tasks, reaching 85.6 percent on a household-task bench

Claude's browser use tool costs 6,600 input tokens per request before a screenshot: the 19...

Introduction To Chimpanzee Tool Transfer Chimpanzees have been observed exhibiting complex...

TL;DR: Before migrating our voice boat-agent off Claude Sonnet, we ran the new GPT-5.6 tiers through...

Mistral AI holds a granted US patent, "Code implemented tool calls," covering an agent architecture in which a model writes a code block wrapping tool calls, a server runs it in a sandbox, pauses at each external call, and resumes with the result sub

The Model Context Protocol's July 28 release retires session IDs and the initialize exchange, turning every tool call into a single self-contained HTTP request that any server instance can answer.

Binary approve/reject prompts don’t scale for AI agents. Here are 10 human-in-the-loop permission patterns plus an incident-response-grade audit log spec you can actually ship.