How to Create Calculator Tool

[bsuryadevara]

How to do we create a Calculator tool for an Agent? Similar to what we have in the langchain LLM framework?

[ZanSara]

Hey @bsuryadevara, right now Haystack's Agents can only use existing components and pipelines as tools, see the docs: https://docs.haystack.deepset.ai/reference/agent-api#tool So if you want a calculator tools, you need to make a Calculator component first. Here is a guide about how to create a custom component: https://docs.haystack.deepset.ai/docs/custom_nodes