Question

A developer is adding a currency-conversion capability to a Claude-powered assistant. They want Claude to be able to invoke this capability during the conversation. When defining the tool in the API request, which three components must the developer provide for the tool definition to be valid and usable by Claude?

Accepted Answer

A name, a description, and an input JSON schema describing the parameters

Answer

A name, the URL of the external service, and an authentication token

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A description, an example output, and a maximum token limit for the result

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A unique ID, a temperature value, and a stop sequence for the tool