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97 changes: 94 additions & 3 deletions README.md
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- Unified interface for multiple SaaS tools
- AI-friendly tool descriptions and parameters
- **Tool Calling**: Direct method calling with `tool.call()` for intuitive usage
- **Glob Pattern Filtering**: Advanced tool filtering with patterns like `"hris_*"` and exclusions `"!hris_delete_*"`
- **Meta Tools** (Beta): Dynamic tool discovery and execution based on natural language queries
- **Advanced Tool Filtering**:
- Glob pattern filtering with patterns like `"hris_*"` and exclusions `"!hris_delete_*"`
- Provider and action filtering with `fetch_tools()`
- Multi-account support
- **Meta Tools** (Beta): Dynamic tool discovery and execution based on natural language queries using hybrid BM25 + TF-IDF search
- Integration with popular AI frameworks:
- OpenAI Functions
- LangChain Tools
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employee = employee_tool.execute({"id": "employee-id"})
```

## Tool Filtering

StackOne AI SDK provides powerful filtering capabilities to help you select the exact tools you need.

### Filtering with `get_tools()`

Use glob patterns to filter tools by name:

```python
from stackone_ai import StackOneToolSet

toolset = StackOneToolSet()

# Get all HRIS tools
tools = toolset.get_tools("hris_*", account_id="your-account-id")

# Get multiple categories
tools = toolset.get_tools(["hris_*", "ats_*"])

# Exclude specific tools with negative patterns
tools = toolset.get_tools(["hris_*", "!hris_delete_*"])
```

### Advanced Filtering with `fetch_tools()`

The `fetch_tools()` method provides advanced filtering by providers, actions, and account IDs:

```python
from stackone_ai import StackOneToolSet

toolset = StackOneToolSet()

# Filter by account IDs
tools = toolset.fetch_tools(account_ids=["acc-123", "acc-456"])

# Filter by providers (case-insensitive)
tools = toolset.fetch_tools(providers=["hibob", "bamboohr"])

# Filter by action patterns with glob support
tools = toolset.fetch_tools(actions=["*_list_employees"])

# Combine multiple filters
tools = toolset.fetch_tools(
account_ids=["acc-123"],
providers=["hibob"],
actions=["*_list_*"]
)

# Use set_accounts() for chaining
toolset.set_accounts(["acc-123", "acc-456"])
tools = toolset.fetch_tools(providers=["hibob"])
```

**Filtering Options:**

- **`account_ids`**: Filter tools by account IDs. Tools will be loaded for each specified account.
- **`providers`**: Filter by provider names (e.g., `["hibob", "bamboohr"]`). Case-insensitive matching.
- **`actions`**: Filter by action patterns with glob support:
- Exact match: `["hris_list_employees"]`
- Glob pattern: `["*_list_employees"]` matches all tools ending with `_list_employees`
- Provider prefix: `["hris_*"]` matches all HRIS tools

## Implicit Feedback (Beta)

The Python SDK can emit implicit behavioural feedback to LangSmith so you can triage low-quality tool results without manually tagging runs.
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## Meta Tools (Beta)

Meta tools enable dynamic tool discovery and execution without hardcoding tool names:
Meta tools enable dynamic tool discovery and execution without hardcoding tool names. The search functionality uses **hybrid BM25 + TF-IDF search** for improved accuracy (10.8% improvement over BM25 alone).

### Basic Usage

```python
# Get meta tools for dynamic discovery
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result = execute_tool.call(toolName="hris_list_employees", params={"limit": 10})
```

### Hybrid Search Configuration

The hybrid search combines BM25 and TF-IDF algorithms. You can customize the weighting:

```python
# Default: hybrid_alpha=0.2 (more weight to BM25, proven optimal in testing)
meta_tools = tools.meta_tools()

# Custom alpha: 0.5 = equal weight to both algorithms
meta_tools = tools.meta_tools(hybrid_alpha=0.5)

# More BM25: higher alpha (0.8 = 80% BM25, 20% TF-IDF)
meta_tools = tools.meta_tools(hybrid_alpha=0.8)

# More TF-IDF: lower alpha (0.2 = 20% BM25, 80% TF-IDF)
meta_tools = tools.meta_tools(hybrid_alpha=0.2)
```

**How it works:**
- **BM25**: Excellent at keyword matching and term frequency
- **TF-IDF**: Better at understanding semantic relationships
- **Hybrid**: Combines strengths of both for superior accuracy
- **Default alpha=0.2**: Optimized through validation testing for best tool discovery

## Examples

For more examples, check out the [examples/](examples/) directory:
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# Use bundled specs directly
OAS_DIR = Path(str(importlib.resources.files("stackone_ai") / "oas"))

# Hybrid search default weight for BM25 vs TF-IDF
# alpha=0.2 means: 20% BM25 + 80% TF-IDF
# This value was optimized through validation testing and provides
# 10.8% improvement in tool discovery accuracy
DEFAULT_HYBRID_ALPHA: float = 0.2
111 changes: 89 additions & 22 deletions stackone_ai/meta_tools.py
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import numpy as np
from pydantic import BaseModel

from stackone_ai.constants import DEFAULT_HYBRID_ALPHA
from stackone_ai.models import ExecuteConfig, JsonDict, StackOneTool, ToolParameters
from stackone_ai.utils.tfidf_index import TfidfDocument, TfidfIndex

if TYPE_CHECKING:
from stackone_ai.models import Tools
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class ToolIndex:
"""BM25-based tool search index"""
"""Hybrid BM25 + TF-IDF tool search index"""

def __init__(self, tools: list[StackOneTool]) -> None:
def __init__(
self, tools: list[StackOneTool], hybrid_alpha: float | None = None
) -> None:
"""Initialize tool index with hybrid search

Args:
tools: List of tools to index
hybrid_alpha: Weight for BM25 in hybrid search (0-1). If not provided,
uses DEFAULT_HYBRID_ALPHA (0.2), which gives more weight to BM25 scoring
and has been shown to provide better tool discovery accuracy
(10.8% improvement in validation testing).
"""
self.tools = tools
self.tool_map = {tool.name: tool for tool in tools}
# Use default if not provided, then clamp to [0, 1]
alpha = hybrid_alpha if hybrid_alpha is not None else DEFAULT_HYBRID_ALPHA
self.hybrid_alpha = max(0.0, min(1.0, alpha))

# Prepare corpus for BM25
# Prepare corpus for both BM25 and TF-IDF
corpus = []
tfidf_docs = []
self.tool_names = []

for tool in tools:
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actions = [p for p in parts if p in action_types]

# Combine name, description, category and tags for indexing
doc_text = " ".join(
# For TF-IDF: use weighted approach similar to Node.js
tfidf_text = " ".join(
[
f"{tool.name} {tool.name} {tool.name}", # boost name
f"{category} {' '.join(actions)}",
tool.description,
" ".join(parts),
]
)

# For BM25: simpler approach
bm25_text = " ".join(
[
tool.name,
tool.description,
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]
)

corpus.append(doc_text)
corpus.append(bm25_text)
tfidf_docs.append(TfidfDocument(id=tool.name, text=tfidf_text))
self.tool_names.append(tool.name)

# Create BM25 index
self.retriever = bm25s.BM25()
# Tokenize without stemming for simplicity
self.bm25_retriever = bm25s.BM25()
corpus_tokens = bm25s.tokenize(corpus, stemmer=None, show_progress=False)
self.retriever.index(corpus_tokens)
self.bm25_retriever.index(corpus_tokens)

# Create TF-IDF index
self.tfidf_index = TfidfIndex()
self.tfidf_index.build(tfidf_docs)

def search(self, query: str, limit: int = 5, min_score: float = 0.0) -> list[MetaToolSearchResult]:
"""Search for relevant tools using BM25
"""Search for relevant tools using hybrid BM25 + TF-IDF

Args:
query: Natural language query
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Returns:
List of search results sorted by relevance
"""
# Tokenize query
# Get more results initially to have better candidate pool for fusion
fetch_limit = max(50, limit)

# Tokenize query for BM25
query_tokens = bm25s.tokenize([query], stemmer=None, show_progress=False)

# Search with BM25
results, scores = self.retriever.retrieve(query_tokens, k=min(limit * 2, len(self.tools)))
bm25_results, bm25_scores = self.bm25_retriever.retrieve(
query_tokens, k=min(fetch_limit, len(self.tools))
)

# Search with TF-IDF
tfidf_results = self.tfidf_index.search(query, k=min(fetch_limit, len(self.tools)))

# Build score map for fusion
score_map: dict[str, dict[str, float]] = {}

# Process results
# Add BM25 scores
for idx, score in zip(bm25_results[0], bm25_scores[0]):
tool_name = self.tool_names[idx]
# Normalize BM25 score to 0-1 range
normalized_score = float(1 / (1 + np.exp(-score / 10)))
# Clamp to [0, 1]
clamped_score = max(0.0, min(1.0, normalized_score))
score_map[tool_name] = {"bm25": clamped_score}

# Add TF-IDF scores
for result in tfidf_results:
if result.id not in score_map:
score_map[result.id] = {}
score_map[result.id]["tfidf"] = result.score

# Fuse scores: hybrid_score = alpha * bm25 + (1 - alpha) * tfidf
fused_results: list[tuple[str, float]] = []
for tool_name, scores in score_map.items():
bm25_score = scores.get("bm25", 0.0)
tfidf_score = scores.get("tfidf", 0.0)
hybrid_score = self.hybrid_alpha * bm25_score + (1 - self.hybrid_alpha) * tfidf_score
fused_results.append((tool_name, hybrid_score))

# Sort by score descending
fused_results.sort(key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)

# Build final results
search_results = []
# TODO: Add strict=False when Python 3.9 support is dropped
for idx, score in zip(results[0], scores[0]):
for tool_name, score in fused_results:
if score < min_score:
continue

tool_name = self.tool_names[idx]
tool = self.tool_map[tool_name]

# Normalize score to 0-1 range
normalized_score = float(1 / (1 + np.exp(-score / 10)))
tool = self.tool_map.get(tool_name)
if tool is None:
continue

search_results.append(
MetaToolSearchResult(
name=tool.name,
description=tool.description,
score=normalized_score,
score=score,
)
)

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"""
name = "meta_search_tools"
description = (
"Searches for relevant tools based on a natural language query. "
"This tool should be called first to discover available tools before executing them."
f"Searches for relevant tools based on a natural language query using hybrid BM25 + TF-IDF search "
f"(alpha={index.hybrid_alpha}). This tool should be called first to discover available tools "
f"before executing them."
)

parameters = ToolParameters(
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def __len__(self) -> int:
return len(self.tools)

def __iter__(self) -> Any:
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The return type annotation Any is too broad for the __iter__ method. It should return Iterator[StackOneTool] for better type safety and IDE support. Add from collections.abc import Iterator to the imports and update the return type.

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"""Make Tools iterable"""
return iter(self.tools)

def to_list(self) -> list[StackOneTool]:
"""Convert to list of tools

Returns:
List of StackOneTool instances
"""
return list(self.tools)

def get_tool(self, name: str) -> StackOneTool | None:
"""Get a tool by its name

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"""
return [tool.to_langchain() for tool in self.tools]

def meta_tools(self) -> Tools:
def meta_tools(self, hybrid_alpha: float | None = None) -> Tools:
"""Return meta tools for tool discovery and execution

Meta tools enable dynamic tool discovery and execution based on natural language queries.
Meta tools enable dynamic tool discovery and execution based on natural language queries
using hybrid BM25 + TF-IDF search.

Args:
hybrid_alpha: Weight for BM25 in hybrid search (0-1). If not provided, uses
ToolIndex.DEFAULT_HYBRID_ALPHA (0.2), which gives more weight to BM25 scoring
and has been shown to provide better tool discovery accuracy
(10.8% improvement in validation testing).

Returns:
Tools collection containing meta_search_tools and meta_execute_tool
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create_meta_search_tools,
)

# Create search index
index = ToolIndex(self.tools)
# Create search index with hybrid search
index = ToolIndex(self.tools, hybrid_alpha=hybrid_alpha)

# Create meta tools
filter_tool = create_meta_search_tools(index)
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