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Breaking down the challenge of custom tool calls in Codex

While building Graft, an open-source context layer for coding agents, the author found that keeping tool data fresh and getting the model to actually call tools are two different problems. An automatic sync hook only solves the former; Codex still needs a mechanism that prompts the model to proactively use custom tools.

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2026-08-12

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While building Graft, an open-source context layer for coding agents, the author found that keeping tool data fresh and getting the model to actually call tools are two different problems. An automatic sync hook only solves the former; Codex still needs a mechanism that prompts the model to proactively use custom tools.

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