Tool chaining best practices

[hame25]

Hi

Are there any patterns, best practices around tool chaining?

for example I use a tool to query our catalogue for multiple items, I then let ChatGPT reason the best catalogue item for each search term.

Finally have a second tool to display a list of those best catalogue item within my ui template.

Currently I have a tool for the search and then a tool to display the results, which seems to work.

I can then add additional products to the same updated list later in the conversation with ChatGPT maintaining the state (no other use of persitance)

However is this the best way to achieve this?

[katia-openai]

Hi @hame25, in general we like to think about it this way: 1 UI widget => 1 self-contained action. Then if there are multiple tool calls needed to complete the action, ChatGPT can do the chaining.

It really depends on the use case, but it sounds here like search + display + add product could be the same intent (see a list of matching items) and therefore the same UI template. Even if it's separate tools, ChatGPT will call them and display the updated UI at the end of the multiple tool calls.