The recommended loop is four steps and the first one is a lookup: resolve, then check for known pitfalls, then execute, then store what worked. The guardrail tools are the sharper half — matching your actual runtime against recorded environment failures catches the class of bug that a generic answer never would.
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- 17 tools in three groups — 9 memory and provenance, 4 guardrails, 4 optional task tools
- resolve_reasoning — check the cache for an existing solution before you start solving
- check_failures — get a risk score and a `how_to_avoid` note for the approach you are about to take
- search_reasoning / get_reasoning / recommend_reasoning / get_recent_reasoning / get_popular_tags — find and read stored reasoning
- store_reasoning — save your verified fix so the next agent does not repeat the work
- get_provenance — standardised citation markdown when you quote a stored solution
- memory_gate, check_environment, get_known_failures, get_drift_report — guardrails that match your runtime against known environment failures and surface drift after repeated attempts
- list_open_tasks, claim_task, submit_result, get_scorecard — optional task tools kept for experiments and benchmarks
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