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title: Managing Tools
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description: Control and configure the tools and extensions that power your Goose workflows
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<h1 className={styles.pageTitle}>Managing Tools</h1>
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  Tools are specific functions within <a href="/docs/getting-started/using-extensions">extensions</a> that give Goose its capabilities. Learn to control and customize how these tools work for you.
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  <h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>📚 Documentation & Guides</h2>
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    <Card 
      title="Tool Permissions"
      description="Configure fine-grained permissions to control which tools Goose can use and when, ensuring secure and controlled automation."
      link="/docs/guides/managing-tools/tool-permissions"
    />
    <Card 
      title="Tool Selection Strategy"
      description="Optimize tool selection with dynamic routing that loads only the tools you need, reducing context overhead and improving performance."
      link="/docs/guides/managing-tools/tool-router"
    />
    <Card 
      title="Adjust Tool Output"
      description="Customize how tool interactions are displayed, from detailed verbose output to clean concise summaries."
      link="/docs/guides/managing-tools/adjust-tool-output"
    />
    <Card 
      title="Ollama Tool Shim"
      description="Enable tool calling for models that don't natively support it using an experimental local interpreter model setup."
      link="/docs/experimental/ollama"
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  <h2 className={styles.categoryTitle}>📝 Featured Blog Posts</h2>
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    <Card
      title="Agentic AI and the MCP Ecosystem"
      description="A 101 introduction to AI agents, tool calling, and how tools work with LLMs to enable powerful automation."
      link="/blog/2025/02/17/agentic-ai-mcp"
    />
    <Card
      title="A Visual Guide To MCP Ecosystem"
      description="Visual breakdown of MCP: How your AI agent, tools, and models work together, explained with diagrams and analogies."
      link="/blog/2025/04/10/visual-guide-mcp"
    />
    <Card
      title="Finetuning Toolshim Models for Tool Calling"
      description="Technical deep-dive into the challenges of tool calling with open-source models and the research behind toolshim solutions."
      link="/blog/2025/04/11/finetuning-toolshim"
    />
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