Claude is notorious in my experience to lie directly to your face (even if its baffling) instead of using the web tool. I'll never prompt it without saying 'use web tool' Its ridiculous.
replythe model has no such magical access to tools.
replyit's the harness which responds to the models replies that has access to the tools.
I wish people would continue to reiterate this difference.
I said the model has access to a web search tool. Of course it’s the harness that provides that access.
replyI didn’t spell that out because it’s irrelevant detail, immaterial to the point I was making.