alt Hacker NewsThe problem is really more getting the agent to reliable relay a UUID. For example, we were creating files for visualizations and having the agent reference them in there response with a custom <visualization file=UUID /> and found that it would often fail to accurately return a UUID from a tool response it was previously provided (running sonnet 4.6).
For this use case, our solution was just to use a slug for the filename, but we can control the uniqueness constraint on our backend.
Except that we don't yet know what would need in all cases, this seems like something that should be provided by the environment.
It feels much like the random number generators in your operating system. The OS is responsible for providing applications with a source of entropy. In the same line of thinking maybe IDEs, agent frameworks, whatever you want to call it, should be responsible for providing some base functionality.