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Glossary: AI Security and Guardrails

Tool result

Also written: tool_result, tool_use, tool loop

The data a tool returns to the model in an agent loop, delivered as a `tool_result` block. Because someone else wrote that data, it is untrusted input, such as a buyer's gift note.

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Instruction hierarchyUntrusted inputTool call