Agentic AI and MCP for Product Managers
Copy This Prompt - Designing Your Tool Inventory
Prompt
Help me design the tool list for an agent.
WHAT THE AGENT DOES: [description]
SYSTEMS IT CAN REACH: [list]
THE TASK TRACE: [paste your step-by-step trace from Chapter 1]
Please:
1. Propose a tool list. For each: a name, and a description of four sentences or fewer that says what it does, when to use it, what it does NOT cover, and what it returns on failure.
2. Mark each tool as READ or WRITE. For writes, say whether the action is reversible and what the worst wrong call would do.
3. Flag any two tools that a model might confuse with each other, and rewrite their descriptions so it can't.
4. Is anything here too broad? Specifically, is there a write tool that should be split into narrower ones so we can control them separately?
5. Which tools could we cut from a first version? Aim for the smallest set that does something genuinely useful.