[anuramat]

what's the point of apply_patch and shell tools though? can't you just define your custom tools with exactly the same behaviour, since you're implementing the actual execution on your side anyway? sounds like vendor lock in for the sake of vendor lock in

[gedy]

In my case, I don't want to do diff tool on my side as the diff is much smaller to send. Versus the LLM sending the whole file (slowly), just to send it back.

[anuramat]

I thought you still need to implement the patching on your side? judging by <https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/tools-apply-patch>