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Original: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/tool-use/implement-tool-use
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Summary
Anthropic’s Claude Platform documentation page “Define tools” explains how client tools are declared to the Claude API: each user-defined tool has a name, a detailed plaintext description, a JSON Schema input_schema and optional input_examples, from which the API constructs a tool-use system prompt. It recommends extremely detailed tool descriptions, consolidating related operations into fewer tools, namespacing tool names by service and returning only high-signal information, and it describes the four tool_choice options (auto, any, tool, none) together with the models and settings on which forced tool use is not supported.
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