Tool Time, Any Time: Inside RLFactory’s Plug‑and‑Play RL for Multi‑Turn Tool Use
Tool calls are where agent demos stop being cute. A chatbot can talk through a task all day. A working agent has to search, query, execute, verify, retry, and sometimes discover that the tool it politely called has returned a malformed answer after making everyone wait. That is the difference between “reasoning about work” and doing work. The former gives you fluent paragraphs. The latter gives you latency, interface contracts, timeout handling, reward ambiguity, and a suspicious number of JSON parsing errors. Glamorous, naturally. ...