AI Agents — From Tool Users to Tool Creators
The Quiet Evolution That’s Redefining Agentic Systems For the past two years, the dominant conversation in AI has been about orchestration. How do we coordinate agents? How do we design better tool libraries? How do we manage multi-agent workflows? But that conversation assumes something fundamental: That the tools required for a task are known in advance. That assumption is starting to break. A new class of agent is emerging — one that doesn’t just select tools. It creates the tools it needs. And that changes the architecture of intelligence itself. ~◈~ The Hidden Limitation of Tool Catalogs Most modern agent frameworks operate on a simple idea: Define tools. Expose them to the agent. Let the agent choose wisely. It’s elegant. Structured. Contained. But it embeds a quiet constraint: The system can only operate within the boundaries of what engineers anticipated. Reality, unfortunately, does not respect those boundaries. In production systems — supply chai...