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Joint Optimization of Tool Creation and Use for Large Language Model Agents

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Tool-augmented language models are bounded by the APIs humans bothered to write; existing tool-creation systems patch this by prompting a frozen LLM at inference time, leaving the model that writes a tool decoupled from the one that uses it, with no signal that the schemas it produces are schemas it can invoke. We propose SMITH (Schema-grounded Multi-task Iterative Tool Honing), a reinforcement learning framework that jointly trains tool creation and tool use inside a single policy. Each rollout is either a build task (write a tool from a few examples) or a use task (invoke a pooled tool on a

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