Think locally, tool-call globally: a pithy take on agent architecture
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-14
A pithy riff on "think globally, act locally" applied to modern agent architectures: the model's <think> reasoning happens within its local context, while <|toolcall|> reaches out globally to the outside world. One line that neatly captures the current paradigm of combining reasoning models with tool use.
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