Tool Invocation at Scale: The Server Manager
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The Server Manager keeps an agent's active toolset intentionally narrow and context-driven — loading tools dynamically, only when needed, instead of exposing everything from every server at once.
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Key points
- •The Server Manager keeps the agent's active toolset intentionally narrow and context-driven, rather than exposing every tool at once
- •It loads tools dynamically only when needed, and discovers which server is appropriate for the current task
- •It provides semantic search over all available tools across servers, even ones not currently loaded into context
- •Enabling it is as simple as setting use_server_manager=True on the agent
- •It becomes the orchestrator deciding which server to activate and which tools to surface, directly addressing tool overload at its source