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A system that decides which specific external tool an AI agent should call for a given request among several available options.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The tool router was sending search requests to the wrong tool until they fixed its matching logic."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard agent-architecture terminology for the dispatch layer once agents accumulated enough distinct tools to need automatic selection logic.
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Related To:Model RouterTool CallingToolformer
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