Problems / Agents and tools, medium

Tool search on every step

With 400 tools, the agent searches for the right few each step. The tool-search service has 6 slots.

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Your goals

Success ≥ 95% of tasks, p99 ≤ 90 s.

The traffic

30 requests a second for 45 seconds: 100% task (writes).

The system

What each component does in this design, and what calls it. The simulator mimics each one from these settings.

ComponentIts job hereSettings
Load balancerLoad balancerTraffic enters here.Calls Agent API.Layer 4 balancers route by IP and port; layer 7 balancers read HTTP and can route by path or header.–
Agent APIApp serviceLoad balancer forwards to it.Calls Agent orchestrator.Little's law: throughput ≈ concurrency ÷ latency. 200 slots at 50 ms serve about 4,000 req/s.3 replicas × 500 slots · timeout 180 s
Agent orchestratorAgent orchestratorAgent API calls it.Calls Tool search, Model.An agent loops: think, call a tool, read the result, repeat until done.400 slots · 6 steps
Tool searchTool searchAgent orchestrator calls it.Loading hundreds of tool definitions into every prompt wastes context and confuses the model.6 slots
ModelLLM endpointAgent orchestrator calls it.Latency has two parts: time to the first token, then a steady stream of tokens per second.2000 streams

Hints

Try it first. Open one hint at a time if you get stuck.

Hint 1

Search runs once per step.

Hint 2

Agent work multiplies: tasks a second × steps per task = calls a second on every tool the loop uses.

One way to solve it

Give tool search more capacity.

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