Agent Tools Reference

Last Updated: October 25, 2026

This feature is in beta. Capabilities, configuration, and availability may change as development continues. Contact your Vasion representative with feedback to help shape this feature.

Tools are the capabilities that an agent uses to act, such as running code, looking up reference data, or sending a message. Use this reference to identify the tools that you can add to an agent and what each tool does. The tools that you see in the Tools section of an agent depend on your permissions and the Vasion products that your organization uses. To add or change tools to an agent, you need Edit access or higher on the agent. Refer to Create an Agent.

An agent can perform only the actions that the user running it has permission to perform. In a workflow, the Agent step runs using with the permissions of the user who last saved the workflow revision that contains the step.

General Tools

General Tools

Tool

Description

Code Interpreter

Writes and runs code in a secure sandbox to perform calculations, analyze data, and generate files. Improves accuracy on complex, end-to-end tasks. Required for an agent to return a file. Improves accuracy on complex, end-to-end tasks. For file types and limits, refer to Agent File Output Reference.

Healthcare Tools

Healthcare Tools

Tool

Description

ICD-10 Lookup

Looks up ICD-10-CM diagnosis code descriptions in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Clinical Tables.

NPI Lookup

Looks up public National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) provider metadata by 10-digit National Provider Identifier (NPI).

These tools are approved for non-PHI reference only. Do not include patient, member, claim, date-of-service, or clinical data in your prompts, files, or agent instructions.

Slack Tools

Slack Tools

Tool

Description

Slack GET Channels

Retrieves all Slack channels by using user credentials.

Slack GET Users

Retrieves all Slack users by using user credentials.

Slack SEND message

Sends a Slack message by using user-level or service-level credentials.

To use the Slack tools, set up your Slack account in the Integrations section of your user profile. Your administrator must first connect your organization’s Slack account to the Vasion Platform.

Recommendations

Follow these practices when you add tools to an agent:

  • Add only the tools that the agent needs for its task.
  • Keep protected health information out of every agent that uses the healthcare reference tools.

  • Add the Code Interpreter tool to any agent that returns a file.

Next Steps

Refer to the following: