Solving Tool Overload in AI Agents: Skill-Aware Decomposition
bendee983 · x · 2026-08-06
When an AI Agent has access to thousands of skills or tools, stuffing all details into the prompt causes severe context noise, and passive retrieval isn't the solution either.
The author notes that the core to managing massive tools lies in:
- Task Decomposition: Breaking complex tasks into atomic sub-tasks requiring only a single tool.
- Tool Matching: Precisely selecting compatible tools for sub-tasks.
- DAG Execution: Executing steps sequentially or in parallel based on dependencies.
To address the challenge of controlling decomposition granularity, the author introduces Skill-Aware Decomposition (SAD), a technique that uses the capability boundaries of skills themselves to dynamically determine the granularity of sub-tasks.
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