Enabling large language models to scale and reliably use hundreds of tools is critical for real-world applications, yet challenging due to the inefficiency and error accumulation inherent in flat tool-calling architectures. To address this, we propose Hybrid Toolset Agentization & Adaptation (HTAA), a hierarchical framework for scalable tool-use planning. We propose a novel toolset agentization paradigm, which encapsulates frequently co-used tools into specialized agent tools, thereby reducing the planner's action space and mitigating redundancy. To ensure effective coordination, we design Asymmetric Planner Adaptation, a trajectory-based training paradigm that aligns the high-level planner with agent tools via backward reconstruction and forward refinement. To validate the performance of HTAA, we conduct experiments on a real-world internal dataset, InfoVerify, based on the POI validation workflow of China's largest online large-scale ride-hailing platform, featuring long-horizon executable tool trajectories. Experiments on InfoVerify and widely-used benchmarks show that HTAA consistently achieves higher task success rates, requires short tool calling trajectories, and significantly reduces context overhead compared to strong baselines. Furthermore, in a production deployment, HTAA substantially reduces manual validation effort and operational cost, demonstrating its practical efficacy.
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Figure 1: Overview of the HTAA framework. The methodology comprises two core components: Toolset Agentization , which abstracts fine-grained tools into a hybrid toolset (combining basic and agent tools) to reduce planning complexity; and Asymmetric Planner Adaptation , which aligns the planner via a trajectory construction pipeline (backward reconstruction and forward refinement) followed by hybrid policy optimization, while keeping the agent tools frozen to ensure stable coordination.
School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne · School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, The University of Western Australia