OpenAI Tools Schema (JSON)
OpenAI function tools definition JSON paired with the tool-calling traces.
{
"tools": [
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "get_weather",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"city": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"city"
]
}
}
}
]
}
Specifications
- Tools
- 1
What is a .json file?
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, text-based data-interchange format representing objects, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans, and null. It is language-independent, human-readable, and the dominant format for web APIs and configuration. It requires a single well-formed root value.
How to use this file
Use an example JSON file to test parsers and serializers, schema validation, Unicode and number-precision handling, and API request or response processing.
How to use this file for testing
“OpenAI Tools Schema (JSON)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Tool calling / function calling, Schema / OpenAPI testing. JSONL traces of function/tool calls with arguments and results — for testing agent harnesses and tool routers.
Documented properties for this file: JSON · 362 bytes. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
AI/ML fixtures are fully synthetic with documented schemas — no real people or data. Test data loaders, tokenizers, annotation converters, embedding/vector stores, or eval-metric parsers against the known structure and fixed seeds.
These JSON fixtures are synthetic SAMPLE auth or tool-call shapes for harnesses — never production secrets or live tokens. Validate schema fields and alg variants against the documented role.
Code examples
import json
with open("openai-tools-schema.json") as f:
data = json.load(f)
print(type(data), len(data))Related files
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- jsonTool Calling — Tool Call WeatherSAMPLE tool-calling JSON (tool-call-weather) for agent harness schema tests.

- jsonTool Calling — Tool Error UnknownSAMPLE tool-calling JSON (tool-error-unknown) for agent harness schema tests.

- jsonTool Calling — Tool Parallel TwoSAMPLE tool-calling JSON (tool-parallel-two) for agent harness schema tests.

- jsonTool Calling — Tool Result WeatherSAMPLE tool-calling JSON (tool-result-weather) for agent harness schema tests.

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