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Your agent has forty tools available and picks the wrong one. How do you fix it?

Every tool definition costs context and adds a wrong option. Past a couple of dozen tools, selection accuracy falls and the fix is choosing a smaller loadout per task, not writing better descriptions.

Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Applied AI Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.

Every tool definition costs context and adds a wrong option. Past a couple of dozen tools, selection accuracy falls and the fix is choosing a smaller loadout per task, not writing better descriptions.

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