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and disappear at any time... was a leetle bit unsettled by the sudden deprecation of "functions" for "tools" with only minor apparante benefit

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Hey swyx — I work at OpenAI on our API. Sorry the change was surprising, we definitely didn't do a great job communicating it.

To confirm, the `functions` parameter will continue to be supported.

We renamed `functions` to `tools` to better align with the naming across our products (Assistants, ChatGPT), where we support other tools like `code_interpreter` and `retrieval` in addition to `function`s.

If you have any other feedback for us, please feel free to email me at atty@openai.com. Thanks!

Might be a good idea to have API versions for this... Then when someone builds a product against "version 1", they can be sure that new features might be added to version 1, but no fields will be removed/renamed without openai releasing version 2.

and what does `auto` even mean?

Hey nl — I work at OpenAI on our API. Do you mean `tool_choice="auto"`? If so, it means the model gets to pick which tool to call. The other options are:

- `tool_choice={type: "function", function: {name: "getWeather"}}`, where the developer can force a specific tool to be called. - `tool_choice="none"`, where the developer can force the model to address the user, rather than call a tool.

If you have any other feedback, please feel free to email me at atty@openai.com. Thanks!

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