Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What progressive disclosure actually changes Almost every production agent I have looked at this year makes the same architectural assumption without ever stating it: that the model should be handed the complete catalogue of everything it might conceivably do, before it has read the user's first sentence. It is an assumption inherited from a time when agents had six tools. It survives because connecting a new integration is now a two-line change, and because nothing about the failure is loud. Nobody gets paged for it. The bill goes up gradually and the answers get slightly worse, and both of those look like the cost of doing business. Progressive tool disclosure is the alternative: keep the whole catalogue available, but let the model see a definition only when it becomes relevant. That…
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