MEPX
Chapter 7 of 10All chapters
  1. 1What generative means
  2. 2Text generation
  3. 3Images and other media
  4. 4Working with these tools
  5. 5What to expect it to get wrong
  6. 6Customising a model
  7. 7Tools and agents
  8. 8Copyright and licensing
  9. 9Provenance and trust
  10. 10Using it well at work

Chapter 7 of 10

Tools and agents

Letting a model act.

Adding capability

Giving a model tools, such as search, code execution or an interface to your systems, extends what it can do and multiplies what a mistake can cost.

  • An agent loop can repeat an error many times before anyone notices.
  • Permissions, review steps and limits matter more as autonomy grows.

Prompt injection

A model reading a web page or document will treat instructions inside it as text worth following. Anything acting on untrusted content needs a boundary between data and commands.