Seeing like an agent: how we design tools in Claude Code (opens in new tab)

📌 One-Sentence Summary Anthropic engineers share their iterative design philosophy for Claude Code's agentic tools, emphasizing 'seeing like an agent' to balance model capabilities with tool complexity. 📝 Summary This article explores the design principles behind Claude Code's agentic tools. The authors argue that tool design should be tailored to a model's specific capabilities, a process they call 'seeing like an agent.' Through case studies on elicitation (AskUserQuestion tool), task manag...