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Re: end_conversation

All tools have short descriptions of how/when to use them. They're not part of the system prompt because different users have different tools loaded.

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I really wish Anthropic would publish those tool descriptions.

I learned a ton of useful things about ChatGPT Work by having it dump out its tool descriptions the other day: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/

The web Claude wouldn't tell me, but Claude Code had no reservations:

   EndConversation (deferred tool): use only for sustained user abuse directed
   at the assistant, or when the user explicitly asks to see it demonstrated.
   Load the full guidance via ToolSearch("select:EndConversation") before using
   it.

There's a much more detailed set of instructions that are provided when the agent goes to invoke it:

https://snowday.s3.amazonaws.com/store/6097125d0a169554063dd...

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