https://districtsolutions.ai/blog Insights on AI infrastructure, private deployment, and production-grade systems. en-us Fri, 15 May 2026 13:41:21 GMT https://districtsolutions.ai/blog/Agentic-AI-Tool-Calling-Design-Patterns-OATs-Protocol-Technical-Deep-Dive-How-OATs-Works https://districtsolutions.ai/blog/Agentic-AI-Tool-Calling-Design-Patterns-OATs-Protocol-Technical-Deep-Dive-How-OATs-Works Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A technical deep-dive into the OATs protocol file format — the JSON structure that powers high-availability tool-calling for agentic AI. Explore the per-directory Prompt Index, entity extraction, retention policies, execution history, and alerting. Jay Johnson and the DS AI Team https://districtsolutions.ai/blog/Agentic-AI-Tool-Calling-Design-Patterns-Reviewing-Agentic-Coding-Token-Usage-Over-Multiple-Years https://districtsolutions.ai/blog/Agentic-AI-Tool-Calling-Design-Patterns-Reviewing-Agentic-Coding-Token-Usage-Over-Multiple-Years Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today we summarize findings from our multi-year coding agent token usage patterns to help others understand why we all need an open agent tool-calling protocol. The major AI providers do not make money saving us tokens. Let's do this together! Jay Johnson and the DS AI Team https://districtsolutions.ai/blog/Agentic-AI-Tool-Calling-Design-Patterns-Prompt-Indexing-For-Reducing-Token-Costs https://districtsolutions.ai/blog/Agentic-AI-Tool-Calling-Design-Patterns-Prompt-Indexing-For-Reducing-Token-Costs Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Saving tokens with self-hosted, local agentic ai models that can run 1 to 200 local commands in a row with 1 prompt using the Open Agent Tools Protocol (OATs). Jay Johnson and the DS AI Team