Term tag: Developer Tools

Function Calling (Tool Calling)

The model never runs your function. It emits a structured request; your code decides whether to honour it, executes it, and hands the result back.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

An open standard that connects any AI app to any tool over one JSON-RPC interface, turning M clients x N tools from M x N custom connectors into M +…

Structured Outputs (Constrained Decoding)

Constrained decoding masks a language model's token distribution against a JSON schema or grammar at each step, so the output is parseable by construction.