An Overview of Tool Use with Cohere

Here, you’ll find context on using tools with Cohere models:

• The basic usage discusses ‘function calling,’ including how to define and create the tool, how to give it a schema, and how to incorporate it into common workflows.
• Usage patterns builds on this, covering parallel execution, state management, and more.
• Parameter types talks about structured output in the context of tool use.
• As its name implies, Streaming explains how to deal with tools when output must be streamed.
• It’s often important to double-check model output, which is made much easier with citations.

These should help you leverage Cohere’s tool use functionality to get the most out of our models.