Why Your AI Agent Is Only As Good As the Tools It Can Reach

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📌 Key takeaways 1. Reasoning gets an agent to a decision, but reach is what lets it actually act on your systems. 2. Tools need typed contracts, clear inputs and outputs, or agents guess their way into broken workflows. 3. Read access and act access carry very different risk, and should be treated as separate permissions. 4. Upgrading the model won't fix an agent limited by weak or undocumented…

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