Prompt Engineering for Tool-Calling Agents: 10 Patterns That Work
Tool-calling reliability is mostly a prompt-engineering problem. The 2026 patterns that consistently improve function-call accuracy.
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Tool-calling reliability is mostly a prompt-engineering problem. The 2026 patterns that consistently improve function-call accuracy.
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Easy queries need 3 chunks; hard ones need 30. The 2026 adaptive-K patterns that match retrieval depth to query difficulty.
When custom CUDA via Triton beats stock PyTorch ops in 2026 — the patterns, the tooling, and what production teams have shipped.
The architectural transitions that take an AI project from a PoC to production-grade in 2026 — and the things teams routinely miss.
Long conversations are where bots fail. The 2026 techniques for keeping coherence across many turns without infinite-context costs.
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Las Vegas retail inventory hit 70.7M SF in Q1 2026 with a 4.3% vacancy rate. Tourism + locals drive a unique multilingual call mix. Here is how a 2026 voice agent runs your storefront line.
Naive RAG retrieves wrong documents and answers from them confidently. The 2026 self-correcting RAG patterns that detect and fix bad retrievals.
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