What is Tool Calling?
Databricks, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Databricks publishes an explainer on tool calling and how models interact with external systems.
Databricks explains tool calling, the ability of an AI model to interact with external tools, APIs, and systems.
The article covers how a model decides to invoke a tool and how results are returned into its reasoning.
Tool calling is the mechanism that turns a language model from a text generator into something that can act. The explainer is aimed at practitioners building agentic applications on enterprise data.