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Tools and MCPs
An agent has two tools with nearly identical descriptions and starts calling the wrong one intermittently. What's the actual bug?
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Answer: B — The tool descriptions overlap — the model routes purely on name/description/schema
Tool descriptions function as prompts. The fix is sharpening each description so their 'use this when…' conditions are mutually exclusive — not a model or temperature problem.
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