Question

You've defined a tool called get_weather for a travel assistant. Claude frequently calls it with vague or incorrect location values (e.g., 'there' or a hotel name instead of a city). The input schema already requires a 'location' string. What is the most effective first change to reduce these errors?

Accepted Answer

Improve the tool's description and the 'location' field description to specify the expected format, e.g., a city and country name like 'Paris, France'.

Answer

Set tool_choice to force Claude to always call get_weather on every turn.

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Remove the input schema so Claude can pass whatever value it wants without validation.

Answer

Lower the temperature to 0 so Claude becomes more deterministic when selecting arguments.