Toolkit
The FDE Toolkit
The exact stack changes quickly. The durable toolkit is a set of deployment capabilities: model access, data connection, workflow control, evaluation, observability, and delivery.
Toolkit categories
LLMs, embeddings, multimodal models, function calling, structured outputs, and provider routing.
Tool use, memory, planning, guardrails, review queues, and human-in-the-loop design.
Vector search, document pipelines, permissions-aware retrieval, and source citation.
Approvals, ticketing, CRM, ERP, finance, support, and internal operations workflows.
Traces, eval sets, incident review, latency, cost, quality, and adoption metrics.
Docs, dashboards, rollout plans, training material, and production runbooks.
Selection principle
FDEs should choose tools based on the workflow being deployed, the organization's trust requirements, and the team that must operate the system after launch.