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VerifiedSolution Design & Architecture

You are a solution architect building a Claude-based assistant that has access to 60 internal tools across multiple business domains. Loading every tool definition with each request increases token usage and time to first response.

Which design pattern best resolves this issue without reducing capability breadth?

Explanation

Progressive tool discovery keeps the full tool catalog available while deferring nonessential tool definitions until they are relevant to the task. This lowers initial context-token usage and time to first response without limiting the assistant to a permanently fixed subset of tools. Anthropic documents deferred tool loading with tool search specifically for large tool sets so that only relevant tools are presented for a query.

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