tool use
Giving the model a menu of functions it can call — read a file, run a command, search the web — and letting it choose. The mechanism underneath every coding agent.
ai
2 videos
3 mentions
also: tool calling, function calling
Where it comes up
Cursor 201
“Okay. So, one just quick announcement. Uh first first up before we get into it, um you might have seen this yesterday. We we just launched uh our newest version of Composer, our own model here at Cursor. So, this just came out, 2.5. You can…”
Cursor for Mobile Developers
“You could wrap it in like a CLI tool locally and then call the CLI itself, but what I'd actually recommend on the expense side is, you know, whenever you're using uh heavy MCP tool calling for, you know, a task or a prompt, uh don't don't u…”