Two top-level tools shared the rlm_ prefix but did completely different
things — rlm_query was a flat parallel-completion fan-out wearing an
RLM-shaped name, and rlm_process was the actual recursive language model.
The overlap was the source of the "our rlm query is completely wrong"
confusion.
rlm_process → rlm # single, honest name for the recursive tool
rlm_query → parallel_fanout # honest name for the flat fanout
Internal renames follow:
Op::RlmQuery → Op::Rlm
AppAction::RlmQuery → AppAction::Rlm
handle_rlm_query → handle_rlm
RlmProcessTool → RlmTool
RlmQueryTool → ParallelFanoutTool
RlmChildClient → FanoutChildClient
with_rlm_process_tool → with_rlm_tool
with_rlm_query_tool → with_parallel_fanout_tool
The REPL helpers `rlm_query` / `rlm_query_batched` / `llm_query` /
`llm_query_batched` keep their names — those are correctly named (they
ARE recursive within the REPL) and the model knows them from the system
prompt and metadata.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hunter Bown
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