Managing Tools

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<h1 className={styles.pageTitle}>Managing Tools</h1> <p className={styles.pageDescription}> Tools are specific functions within <a href="/docs/getting-started/using-extensions">extensions</a> that give goose its capabilities. Learn to control and customize how these tools work for you. </p> <div className={styles.categorySection}> <h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>📚 Documentation & Guides</h2> <div className={styles.cardGrid}> <Card title="Tool Permissions" description="Configure fine-grained permissions to control which tools goose can use and when, ensuring secure and controlled automation." link="/docs/guides/managing-tools/tool-permissions" /> <Card title="Adjust Tool Output" description="Customize how tool interactions are displayed, from detailed verbose output to clean concise summaries." link="/docs/guides/managing-tools/adjust-tool-output" /> <Card title="Code Mode" description="Programmatic approach that discovers and calls MCP tools on demand." link="/docs/guides/managing-tools/code-mode" /> <Card title="Ollama Tool Shim" description="Enable tool calling for models that don't natively support it using an experimental local interpreter model setup." link="/docs/experimental/ollama" /> </div> </div> <div className={styles.categorySection}> <h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>📝 Featured Blog Posts</h2> <div className={styles.cardGrid}> <Card title="Agentic AI and the MCP Ecosystem" description="A 101 introduction to AI agents, tool calling, and how tools work with LLMs to enable powerful automation." link="/blog/2025/02/17/agentic-ai-mcp" /> <Card title="A Visual Guide To MCP Ecosystem" description="Visual breakdown of MCP: How your AI agent, tools, and models work together, explained with diagrams and analogies." link="/blog/2025/04/10/visual-guide-mcp" /> <Card title="Finetuning Toolshim Models for Tool Calling" description="Technical deep-dive into the challenges of tool calling with open-source models and the research behind toolshim solutions." link="/blog/2025/04/11/finetuning-toolshim" /> </div> </div>