Using Agents as Tools
Agentic AI Using Agents as Tools Building manager–specialist workflows with the OpenAI Agents SDK Shuai Guo Aug 4, 2026 7 min read Share Generated by GPT-Image 2 When building an agent, we give it tools so that it can delegate work rather than solving everything by itself. For a well-defined operation, the tool can simply be a script-based function or an API. But once the task becomes more open-ended, it can be quite difficult to capture the problem-solving logic in a predefined script.
- ▪Agentic AI Using Agents as Tools Building manager–specialist workflows with the OpenAI Agents SDK Shuai Guo Aug 4, 2026 7 min read Share Generated by GPT-Image 2 When building an agent, we give it tools so that it can delegate work rather t
- ▪For a well-defined operation, the tool can simply be a script-based function or an API.
- ▪But once the task becomes more open-ended, it can be quite difficult to capture the problem-solving logic in a predefined script.
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| Original publisher | Towards Data Science |
| Canonical URL | https://towardsdatascience.com/using-agents-as-tools/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T12:05:42.566Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T12:05:42.566Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 3Sm7mqcMtF2k · 4 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Agentic AI Using Agents as Tools Building manager–specialist workflows with the OpenAI Agents SDK Shuai Guo Aug 4, 2026 7 min read Share Generated by GPT-Image 2 When building an agent, we give it tools so that it can delegate work rather than solving everything by itself. For a well-defined operation, the tool can simply be a script-based function or an API. But once the task becomes more open-ended, it can be quite difficult to capture the problem-solving logic in a predefined script. This leads to an interesting question: Can another agent become the tool? The answer is yes. And this is the so-called “agent-as-a-tool” pattern. In this post, we’ll explore this pattern using the OpenAI Agents SDK and illustrate it with a small case study. 1.
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