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AI agent tool schemas cut 47%: the duplicate YAML key that disabled nothing

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My self-hosted AI agents were slow, and I spent a while assuming the model was the problem. It wasn't. Most of every request was the agent describing its own tools to the model, over and over, for tools it never used. On 2026-08-15 I trimmed the tool schemas on five specialist agent profiles by 47%…

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  1. 2026-10-15 08:00 · DEV Community — AI
    AI agent tool schemas cut 47%: the duplicate YAML key that disabled nothing

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