# MODEL_HINTS.md — General Tool Best Practices

Active model family: **Unknown** (no specific hints available for this model)

Applying universal best practices. For model-specific guidance, see:
- `skills/llm-tool-best-practices/hints/anthropic.md` (Claude)
- `skills/llm-tool-best-practices/hints/openai.md` (GPT)

## Universal rules
- Write detailed descriptions (3–4+ sentences per tool): purpose, when to use/not use, params, output, caveats.
- Fewer, richer tools beat many narrow ones. Consolidate related operations.
- Use `service_resource_verb` namespacing for clarity.
- Return only high-signal data. Strip opaque IDs, raw stack traces, bloat.
- Bound response sizes; make truncation messages actionable.
- Least privilege. Validate all inputs. Guard destructive actions.