02. Tools/Elaboration

You gave the bot hands. It can now read your catalog, move customers around the site, ask before doing risky things, and load extra tools on demand.
That covers the four flavors of tool you'll meet in TanStack AI: server, client, approval, and lazy.
Let me know what you think in the form on the right! 👉
Next up: structured replies — getting the model to return data in a shape you designed.

Test Your Knowledge

Retrieval practice helps solidify learning by actively recalling information. Use this prompt with your AI assistant to quiz yourself on what you've learned.

Please quiz me on exercise 2 using the epicshop MCP server. Call the get_quiz_instructions tool with exerciseNumber "2" to get the quiz instructions, then quiz me one question at a time.

Learn how to set up the epicshop MCP server

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