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Tool registry

An authoritative inventory of tools — with schemas, permissions, owners, deprecation state, and audit log — that an agent may call.

What this means in practice

The tool registry is the governance anchor for agentic systems: unregistered tools cannot be invoked; permission changes flow through the registry rather than through prompt updates.

Synonyms

agent tool registry , tool inventory

Related Terms Network

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Related terms for Tool registry Network graph showing 3 related glossary terms connected to Tool registry. Tool registry Tool use /… Tool schem… Model Cont…
3 related concepts connected to Tool registry.

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Accessible list of related terms
  • Tool use / function calling — A prompt pattern authorizing the model to request named functions with structured arguments — searching the web, reading a database, calling a calculator, triggering an API — rather than generating all answers from its weights.
  • Tool schema — The JSON-schema (or equivalent structured) definition of a tool's parameters, types, and constraints.
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) — An open protocol published by Anthropic in November 2024 for interoperability between models and tools — standardising how servers expose tools, resources, and prompts to AI clients.

See also

  • Tool use / function calling — A prompt pattern authorizing the model to request named functions with structured arguments — searching the web, reading a database, calling a calculator, triggering an API — rather than generating all answers from its weights.
  • Tool schema — The JSON-schema (or equivalent structured) definition of a tool's parameters, types, and constraints.
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) — An open protocol published by Anthropic in November 2024 for interoperability between models and tools — standardising how servers expose tools, resources, and prompts to AI clients.