Discover how to enhance GPT-5's capabilities by integrating custom tools and functions. Progress from creating tool schemas to building autonomous agents that can interact with external systems through iterative tool use.
Overview
Syllabus
- Unit 1: Writing Tool Schemas for GPT-5
- Build Your First Tool Function
- Describe a Tool with a JSON Schema
- Adding a Second Tool Schema and Function
- Building a Tool Registry Mapping
- Unit 2: Understanding How GPT-5 Uses Tools
- Enabling Tool Use in a Basic Request
- Guiding GPT-5 to Use Tools with a Developer Prompt
- Parsing Function Call Responses
- Multiple Function Calls in One Response
- Mixing Addition and Multiplication Function Calls
- Unit 3: Completing the Tool Use Cycle
- Detecting and Parsing Function Calls
- Execute Tools and Collect Function Outputs
- Closing the Tool Execution Loop
- Visualizing the Complete Message History
- Unit 4: Building an Autonomous GPT-5 Agent
- Build the Agent Class Foundation
- Implementing Robust Tool Execution and Error Handling
- Implement Basic Agent Conversation Flow
- Implement an Iterative Agent Run Loop
- Completing the Function-Call Loop for a Multi-Step Agent
- Autonomous Agent Challenge: Solve a More Complex Quadratic Equation