Home / Applied AI / 01. AI Engineering / 19. Tool Integration Contracts Tool Integration Contracts¶ The chapters in this module, in reading order. # Chapter 00 Tool integration contracts — First-principles overview 01 A tool is not a function. It is a production API boundary. 02 Contract anatomy: the six fields, and what each one prevents 03 The four authority classes 04 Idempotency and retry safety 05 Error contracts the model can recover from 06 Scopes and credential isolation 07 Validation: preconditions, postconditions, and dry-runs 08 Versioning and deprecation 09 Integration drift detection 10 Contract testing 11 Observability and audit 12 Architect checklist 13 Honest admission