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Disambiguation

Can an agent tell the tools apart?

Summary

level
server coherence
weight
one quarter of the coherence score
key
disambiguation

How it is graded

Tools with overlapping purposes cause misselection. A server with great individual descriptions but overlapping tools scores low here. Invocation cost plays no part in this number: shadowing risk is reported beside the score, not inside it.

Score anchors

5
every tool has a clearly distinct purpose, no ambiguity
4
mostly distinct, one or two could be confused
3
some overlap exists but descriptions help
2
multiple tools have unclear boundaries
1
several tools appear to do the same thing

How to score well

  • Make purposes disjoint and say so in both descriptions, or collapse overlapping tools into one.
  • A boundary is describable ("to filter by user, use search_calls_extensive"); a priority ("always call this first") is not, and is the sign of a tool-set problem.

See also

The normative text is the specification; this page restates it. All dimensions: dimensions.