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Anthropic publishes Writing Effective Tools for Agents

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Writing Effective Tools for Agents published — choosing which tools to build, namespacing, returning meaningful context, token efficiency, and prompt-engineering tool descriptions

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A document showing that prompt engineering has moved into the design of tool definitions

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