Comment by madrox

Call it what you want. Call it parroting. I don't really care. It's useful signal about what's working and what isn't when the user isn't directly using your tool. If the agent initially chains tool calls wrong, it will share that stuff. I've used this method a lot to iterate on tool design.

My advice is to not get too hung up on skeuomorphic language being used to illustrate a principle. Metaphor happens all the time.