alt Hacker NewsAnthropic’s tool calling was exposed as XML tags at the beginning, before they introduced the JSON API. I expect they’re still templating those tool calls into XML before passing to the model’s context
Anthropic’s tool calling was exposed as XML tags at the beginning, before they introduced the JSON API. I expect they’re still templating those tool calls into XML before passing to the model’s context
Yeah like I remember prior to reasoning models, their guidance was to use <think> tags to give models space for reasoning prior to an answer (incidentally, also the reason I didn't quite understand the fuss with reasoning models at first). It's always been XML with Anthropic.