[pmontra]

I would naively suppose that the agent is able to read the man page or run the help command of the tool. They usually contain plenty of information. But bending the tool to suit the agent has some value. The GNU-AI suite of userland tools? Unfortunately it's possible that every model will settle on a different average. If that's the case we can't bend to every model. Models will have to bend to whatever we want to use.

[theshrike79]

Of course it can read the man page and run cmd --help.

Now you've wasted context on, what? Learning how to use the tool. And it will waste context on it every single time. (You can write skills to mitigate this a bit, but still).

The alternative is to make the tool work as the user (an LLM in this case) expects it to work, without having to resort to the manual.

[riknos314]

If the parameter names mostly standardize across tools because the models learn to predict those names, then humans will also learn to predict those flag names so this actually has the potential to make tools more human friendly and easier to learn.