← All IntelClip / AI AgentsThe fat agent fails on catalog size, not on bad tools
From The 100-Tool Agent Is a Trap - Sohail Shaikh & Ankush Rastogi, Prosodica · ≈3:29
Names the real failure mode and quantifies it — 741 tool schemas burn about 127,000 tokens before the user's question is even read.
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- Names the real failure mode and quantifies it — 741 tool schemas burn about 127,000 tokens before the user's question is even read.
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respond. The important point is, basically, the design does not fail because one tool is badly written. It fails because every request is forced to carry the entire catalog. So, let's look here. There are, say for example, uh 741 tools in your uh in your entire schema, but and it will look, basically, take up to 127,000 tokens just to have all those tool descriptions in it. And this is even before the user user's actual question is even considered. So, basically, this will lead to context overload and uh we need to manage that properly.
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