Am I able to create an assistant that uses BOTH the native file_search and also custom functions that I’ve built? I have an assistant that is successfully using file_search and I cloned that to include some custom tools I built to allow the assistant to search the web and read the clean text from UR…

I’ve answered my own question. It is possible but I was specifying which tools to run when I was running my thread, instead of letting the assistant do that on its own based on the assistant config. Seems to be working nicely now.

Using file_search in combination with function calling

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Using file_search in combination with function calling

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