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Automatic tool choice
A tool-calling setting that enables automatic selection of a tool.
Also called auto-tool choice, enable-auto-tool-choice.
- sources
- 4
- models
- 3
- labs adopt it
- 3
- strongest
- used
How sources treat it
One count per evidence span, weakest treatment to strongest.
optional 1used 3
Documented in
Further reading
Picked by hand, not extracted: where to read more, not evidence for anything on this page.
- vLLM Tool Calling docs docs.vllm.ai
Evidence
4 spans quoted from the sources, strongest treatment first.
--enable-auto-tool-choice
usedunclearin Qwen3.6-35B-A3BQwen
--enable-auto-tool-choice
usedsoftware implementationin Hy4-previewvLLM
--enable-auto-tool-choice
usedsoftware implementationin Step 3.7 FlashStepFun
Filed alongside
Other methods under inference & serving :: agentic scaffolding.
Advisor strategyPython toolFunction callingHarmony formatBrowser toolGeneric tool-call parserMCP tool configurationMulti-agent collaborationRole-based instruction hierarchyThinking with toolsVisual Search ToolXML-based tool-call schema with DSML tokenAgent Team modeAgentENVAgentic searchAgentic tool callingApp-server mode with adapted tool schemasAppArmor and eBPF sandbox policiesAssistant output channelsAsynchronous teammate spawningBash commands for context retrievalBash computer-use agentBrowsing tool with domain filteringChain-of-thought in the analysis channel