Lazy tool loading
An agent loads tool schemas on demand at call time rather than injecting every tool definition upfront, cutting the per-request context and token overhead of large tool catalogs.
grounded in: Trend theme: people auditing 'exactly what agent CLIs send over the wire and how much token overhead they carry' — deferred/on-demand tool schema loading is the durable mitigation for that overhead.
Connected concepts
Tool use / function calling, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Context engineering, Agent-computer interface (ACI)
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