This document details how to use function calling with Mistral AI models to connect to external tools and build more complex applications, outlining a four-step process: User query & tool specification, Model argument generation, User function execution, and Model final answer generation.
Hugging Face introduces a unified tool use API across multiple model families, making it easier to implement tool use in language models.
Hugging Face has extended chat templates to support tools, offering a unified approach to tool use with the following features:
- Defining tools: Tools can be defined using JSON schema or Python functions with clear names, accurate type hints, and complete docstrings.
- Adding tool calls to the chat: Tool calls are added as a field of assistant messages, including the tool type, name, and arguments.
- Adding tool responses to the chat: Tool responses are added as tool messages containing the tool name and content.
