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Function Calling & Tool Use — Tutorial

Define tools, parse tool calls, execute them, and return results — the complete round-trip with the Anthropic API

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Function Calling & Tool Use — Tutorial: This tutorial provides a structured implementation path with prerequisites, steps, checkpoints, and related references. Read the complete sequence before applying commands or configuration in production.

Function Calling & Tool Use — Tutorial: Adapt examples to the versions, security boundaries, data policy, and failure-handling requirements of your system. Validate intermediate outputs and keep a rollback path for changes that affect users or stored data.

Function Calling & Tool Use — Tutorial: Tutorial examples demonstrate a technique; they do not prove reliability, compliance, performance, or suitability for a workload. Use current primary documentation and test the final system under representative conditions.

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