Built-In Tools
Tools that Agents can call at any given point out of the box. They are deployed and ready for the agents to leverage to answer questions on demand.

They are also available for users to use them directly via Conversations without the Agent creation step!
Usage
Usage
These built-in tools are only available when using the Agents and/or Conversations APIs.
General Usage
General Usage
To use them, you need to specify the tool in the tools
parameter when creating an Agent or calling the Conversations API.
tip
You can use multiple Tools at the same time!
agent = client.beta.agents.create(
model="<model>",
name="<name_of_the_agent>",
description="<description>",
instructions="<instructions_or_system_prompt>",
tools=[<list_of_tools>]
)
Available Built-In Tools
Available Built-In Tools
Currently, our API has 4 built-in tools, here you can find how to use them in details: