Question

A team is building a coding assistant agent. They give it a file-search tool, a code-linter tool, and a git-commit tool. The lead asks the team to categorize each tool by whether it primarily lets the agent take actions that change the external environment or primarily gives the agent information to reason with. Which categorization is correct?

Accepted Answer

File-search and code-linter give the agent information; git-commit takes an action that changes the environment.

Answer

All three tools take actions that change the environment, since every tool call modifies state.

Answer

File-search takes an action; code-linter and git-commit only provide information.

Answer

All three tools only provide information, since the model still decides what to do afterward.