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tool sprawl

/tuːl sprɔːl/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Forty tools the agent may call, eleven that do the same thing, none that anyone will deprecate.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The accumulation of overlapping tools an agent can call, added without a registry of what already exists.

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See also

agentic systemsSoftware empowered to act on decisions no human had been assigned to make.
ai gatewayA toll booth on the model traffic that three teams are already routing around.
orchestrator sprawlThe state of having three tools to schedule jobs and a fourth, undocumented one to schedule the other three.