Putting it in the tool makes it MUCH MICH easier from a construct perspective. Trust me
Help isn’t for common crap. It’s the extended stuff. Like I have a tool for grocy. Help tells the llm EXACTLY how to log something in inventory. But it’s not in context until the llm needs it.
You can automate the prompt. - it’s just a template. But if the tool description is in the prompt too you need to do a lot of work to work around the custom text. (go see the prompt template for Friday to see wht I’m talking about)
Friday's Party: Creating a Private, Agentic AI using Voice Assistant tools (I’ve been working on this problem a long time…)
Future agents will not be able to load every single item inthe prompt on first shot. It’s impossible. Especially local where most people will be fighting context under 16k every token matters.
So how to use the tool I the tool. Extended use of tool in tool help to clear toks and how you need to use the tool in context I. Your prompt (or in my case inthe pre summarizer… Long story) we can do some amazing stuff but it takes prompt context micromanaging and keeping stuff OUT of the prompt when it doesn’t need to be there is gonna be the name of the game for 2026. (cause none of us are going to be buying new ram…)