Function Calling
Function calling is a large language model capability that lets a model produce structured, machine-readable requests to invoke external functions or APIs with specific arguments, enabling it to take actions or retrieve real-time information beyond its own training data.
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Model Context Protocol
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard, introduced by Anthropic in late 2024, for connecting AI assistants and applications to external tools, data s…
Replit Agent
Replit Agent is an AI-powered coding agent built into the Replit online IDE that can plan, write, run, debug, and deploy full software applications from natura…
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic's most capable large language model in the Claude 4 family, designed for the highest-difficulty reasoning, coding, and agentic tas…
Command R
Command R is a family of large language models from Cohere optimized for enterprise use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and multilingua…
GLM
GLM (General Language Model) is a family of large language models developed by Zhipu AI, a Chinese AI company spun out of Tsinghua University research, spannin…
Test-Time Compute
Test-time compute refers to additional computation a language model performs at inference time — beyond a single fixed-length forward pass — such as extended r…
Function Calling
Function calling is a large language model capability that lets a model produce structured, machine-readable requests to invoke external functions or APIs with…
Structured Outputs
Structured outputs is a large language model feature that constrains a model's response to strictly conform to a predefined schema, such as JSON with specific…
Guardrails
Guardrails are the policies, filters, and validation checks applied around a large language model — on its inputs, outputs, or both — to keep its behavior with…
Multi-Agent System
A multi-agent system, in the context of modern AI, is an architecture in which multiple distinct AI agents — often each built on an LLM with its own role, inst…
Tool Use
Tool use is the general capability of an AI model to invoke external functions, APIs, or software utilities during its reasoning process — such as a calculator…
ReAct Prompting
ReAct (Reasoning and Acting) is a prompting framework that interleaves a language model's step-by-step reasoning with concrete actions, such as tool or API cal…