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Tawan Shamsanor
Tawan Shamsanor

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How Claude Decides What Tool to Call

Claude doesn't choose tools—it hallucinates JSON instead. When you send a message to Anthropic's API with a list of available tools, the model doesn't "think" about which one to pick in any human sense. Instead, it runs a structured, multi-stage pipeline that converts natural language intent into rigid, machine-parseable tool invocations—and the entire process happens in under 200 milliseconds.


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