Tool-to-Agent Retrieval: Bridging Tools and Agents for Scalable LLM Multi-Agent Systems

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Autori principali: Lumer, Elias, Nizar, Faheem, Gulati, Anmol, Basavaraju, Pradeep Honaganahalli, Subbiah, Vamse Kumar
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author Lumer, Elias
Nizar, Faheem
Gulati, Anmol
Basavaraju, Pradeep Honaganahalli
Subbiah, Vamse Kumar
author_facet Lumer, Elias
Nizar, Faheem
Gulati, Anmol
Basavaraju, Pradeep Honaganahalli
Subbiah, Vamse Kumar
contents Recent advances in LLM Multi-Agent Systems enable scalable orchestration of sub-agents, each coordinating hundreds or thousands of tools or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. However, existing retrieval methods typically match queries against coarse agent-level descriptions before routing, which obscures fine-grained tool functionality and often results in suboptimal agent selection. We introduce Tool-to-Agent Retrieval, a unified framework that embeds both tools and their parent agents in a shared vector space and connects them through metadata relationships. By explicitly representing tool capabilities and traversing metadata to the agent level, Tool-to-Agent Retrieval enables granular tool-level or agent-level retrieval, ensuring that agents and their underlying tools or MCP servers are equally represented without the context dilution that arises from chunking many tools together. Evaluating Tool-to-Agent Retrieval across eight embedding models, our approach achieves consistent improvements of 19.4% in Recall@5 and 17.7% in nDCG@5 over previous state-of-the-art agent retrievers on the LiveMCPBench benchmark.
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spellingShingle Tool-to-Agent Retrieval: Bridging Tools and Agents for Scalable LLM Multi-Agent Systems
Lumer, Elias
Nizar, Faheem
Gulati, Anmol
Basavaraju, Pradeep Honaganahalli
Subbiah, Vamse Kumar
Computation and Language
Recent advances in LLM Multi-Agent Systems enable scalable orchestration of sub-agents, each coordinating hundreds or thousands of tools or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. However, existing retrieval methods typically match queries against coarse agent-level descriptions before routing, which obscures fine-grained tool functionality and often results in suboptimal agent selection. We introduce Tool-to-Agent Retrieval, a unified framework that embeds both tools and their parent agents in a shared vector space and connects them through metadata relationships. By explicitly representing tool capabilities and traversing metadata to the agent level, Tool-to-Agent Retrieval enables granular tool-level or agent-level retrieval, ensuring that agents and their underlying tools or MCP servers are equally represented without the context dilution that arises from chunking many tools together. Evaluating Tool-to-Agent Retrieval across eight embedding models, our approach achieves consistent improvements of 19.4% in Recall@5 and 17.7% in nDCG@5 over previous state-of-the-art agent retrievers on the LiveMCPBench benchmark.
title Tool-to-Agent Retrieval: Bridging Tools and Agents for Scalable LLM Multi-Agent Systems
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01854