Designing Tools for AI Agents — Schemas, Descriptions, and Error Handling
Master tool schema design, description engineering, error handling, idempotency, and tool versioning to build AI agent tools that agents actually want to use.
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Master tool schema design, description engineering, error handling, idempotency, and tool versioning to build AI agent tools that agents actually want to use.
Deploy translation pipelines combining LLMs and specialized models with translation memory, glossary enforcement, backtranslation quality checks, and cost optimization.
Orchestrate AI pipelines with Temporal for durable workflows, Prefect for data + AI, or Airflow for batch jobs. Handle retries, human approval, and cost tracking.
Product wants features. Engineering wants to fix the architecture. Neither fully understands the other's constraints. The result is either all-features-no-quality or all-refactoring-no-shipping. The fix requires building a shared language around trade-offs, not just better processes.
Implement consumer-driven contract testing with Pact to verify that APIs and clients agree on their interface without full integration tests.