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Your Free LLM Can Call Tools. Prove It With This Harness.

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Most free model tiers are judged by chatbot quality. That is the wrong metric for agentic side projects. The real question is boring: does the model emit a tool_call JSON object that matches your schema, every single time? I built a small harness to answer that question using a free model endpoint…

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  1. 2026-08-30 11:03 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Free LLM Can Call Tools. Prove It With This Harness.

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