retrieve-tool-docs TEC-0021Retrieve tool documentation at call time
Put the exact documentation for candidate tools into the prompt instead of relying on memory.
Index tool and API documentation, retrieve the entries relevant to the current step, and include them verbatim before the model chooses a call. This removes invented endpoints and arguments and keeps the model current when APIs change.
Contexts: Coding agent, Autonomous agent
Does it work?
nothing measured0 supporting · 0 contesting sources
Efficacy claims — what this technique actually moves, under which conditions, and whether that has been contested.
1 more condition from claims reviewed by AI, listed with the claims below.
No efficacy claim filed yet. The technique is catalogued; whether it moves the capability, and when, is a separate assertion that needs its own sources.
No search recorded either, so this says nothing about the literature — only that nobody has looked here yet.
Code
- https://github.com/ShishirPatil/gorilla — Gorilla retriever-aware training and API documentation store.verified 2026-09-02
Sources
Whether a technique works is a claim. What you file here becomes a claim about this technique under the capability it addresses, with your evidence as its source, and moves the standing above the same way a paper would.