Reducing Tool Calls in Agentic AI

I have been experimenting with optimizing my local-LLM agentic AI workflow. Currently I have Gemma 4 E4B (other models work well too, but this one seems reliable and fast) as the LLM. Reducing Tool Calls In testing my system, I found that a simple query, like "summarize the Kimi-K3 blog post" was slower than necessary because the agent had to call multiple tools to resolve the query. It had to…