Tool-Calling Prompts That Don't Blow Up on the Five Edge Cases
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Book: AI Agents Pocket Guide Also by me: Prompt Engineering Pocket Guide My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub - an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub You've seen this shape: an agent confidently calls delete_user instead of archive_user because the description is off by one verb. Same arg signature, both (user_id: str), the model picks the first one in the schema list, and a paying customer gets nuked. The post-mortem eats half a day. The fix is a sentence in a tool description. That's edge case one of five.