Your AI Agent Is Only as Smart as the Tools You Give It
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I've been building with the Laravel AI SDK since it dropped, and one thing became clear fast: the agent itself is not the hard part. The tools are. Let me explain what I mean. What Are Tools in the Context of AI Agents? If you've worked with any LLM API — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini — you know the model can generate text. But text alone doesn't get you far when you need the agent to actually do something in your application. It can't query your database. It can't check a user's permis