ToolScope: A telescope + toolbox for long-horizon, vision-guided AI

Kari Jaaskelainen

04 Nov 2025 — 1 min read

What’s new?

AI can call external tools (search, code, etc.) to solve problems, but juggling images, text, and many steps is hard. ToolScope is a new framework that helps multimodal AI plan globally and see locally — like using a telescope plus a toolbox.

How it works

Global Navigator: sets a high-level plan (the "telescope").
Agentic Executor: iteratively uses tools — Search, Code, and a special Perceive tool that re-looks at the right parts of images to avoid losing context.
Response Synthesizer: turns the reasoning trail into clear, user-friendly answers.

Why it matters

On four visual question-answering benchmarks (VQA 2.0, ScienceQA, MAT-Search, MathVista), ToolScope showed strong generalization, boosting accuracy by up to +6.69% on average.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27363v1

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27363v1

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