Prompt Library: Designing Tools

Designing Your Tool Inventory

Help me design the tool list for an agent. WHAT IT DOES: [description]. SYSTEMS IT CAN REACH:

[list]. THE TASK TRACE: [paste your trace]. Propose a tool list, for each, a name and a

description of four sentences or fewer covering what it does, when to use it, what it does NOT

cover, and what it returns on failure. Mark each READ or WRITE; for writes, say whether

reversible and what the worst wrong call would do. Flag any two tools a model might confuse

and rewrite their descriptions so it can't. Is anything too broad, particularly any write

tool that should be split so we can control the parts separately? And which tools could we cut

from a first version?