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High School Lab

Tool Router

Route each request to the one tool that can deliver the answer โ€” the skill that turns a chatbot into an agent.

Tool Router

A capable AI agent rarely answers from memory โ€” it calls a tool. You are the router. Read each request and send it to the one tool that can actually deliver the answer.

Correct routes

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Request 1 of 8

โ€œCompute 4,096 ร— 178 โ€” I need the exact number.โ€

How does it actually work?

This is tool use (also called function calling) โ€” the skill that turns a chatbot into an agent. The model reads a request, decides which tool fits, and emits a structured call to it. The tool runs in the real world and returns a result the model can use.

Routing is the hard part. A model that answers โ€œ4,096 ร— 178โ€ from memory may be wrong; one that sends it to a calculator is exact. Knowing the limits of each tool โ€” and of the model itself โ€” is what makes an agent trustworthy.