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ToolRegistry: A Protocol-Agnostic Tool Management Library for Function-Calling LLMs
Peng Ding, Rick Stevens
Every LLM tool call is structurally an RPC -- a function name, JSON arguments, and a serialized result -- yet each protocol (native Python, MCP, OpenAPI, LangChain) is integrated f…
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Stdlib or Third-Party? Empirical Performance and Correctness of LLM-Assisted Zero-Dependency Python Libraries
Peng Ding, Rick Stevens
Third-party Python libraries introduce dependency management overhead, supply chain risk, and deployment friction in constrained environments. A natural question is how much of thi…