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Agent Tool-Use System Design (AML Volcano Engine)

System Design · ByteDance · Hard

Requirements Opening prompt: "Which issues emerge when an agent uses tools in a production environment, and how would you architect safeguards for them?" The interviewer then steers the discussion through these focused areas: State management: how can complicated state be carried through lengthy sequences of tool calls? Which information belongs in the context window, and which belongs in persistent external memory? Evaluation: how should such a complicated system be…

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