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Columbia's Agentic Engineering lecture 5 explains how agent tool calls run

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Columbia University's COMS W4995 Agentic Engineering lecture 5, titled "Agent tools in pictures," covers what tools are, how a single tool call happens, and five ways to give tools to an agent.

Author meng shao shared the lecture on X, describing it as about 221 minutes across 11 chapters, each with a quiz and references.

According to the article, the model only generates tool names and arguments. The surrounding harness parses, validates, authorizes, and executes those calls.

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    AIColumbia University's COMS W4995 Agentic Engineering lecture 5, titled Agent tools in pictures, covers what tools are, how a single tool call happens, and five ways to give tools to an agent. The article, shared by meng shao, runs about 221 minutes over 11 chapters, with a quiz and references in each chapter, and argues that the model only generates tool names and arguments while the surrounding harness parses, validates, authorizes, and executes them.

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