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Pythonlangchain-coremessagescontentcreate_tool_call

Function●Since v1.0

create_tool_call

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create_tool_call(
  name: str,
  args: dict[str, Any],
  *,
  id:

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Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`name`*	`str`	The name of the tool to be called.
`args`*	`dict[str, Any]`	The arguments to the tool call.
`id`	`str \| None`	Default:`None`
`index`	`int \| str \| None`	Default:`None`

Create a ToolCall.

The id is generated automatically if not provided, using a UUID4 format prefixed with 'lc_' to indicate it is a LangChain-generated ID.

An identifier for the tool call.

Generated automatically if not provided.

Index of block in aggregate response.

Used during streaming.