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Tool Description
A tool description is the natural-language text within a tool schema that explains what the tool does, when to use it, and what its parameters mean. Because the language model relies on this text to decide whether and how to call the tool, description quality has an outsized impact on overall agent performance. Effective descriptions are precise, concrete, and include notes on common misuse cases or edge-case constraints that the model should be aware of.