Nice! Feature #2 here is basically an implementation of the “write code to call tools instead of calling them directly” that was a big topic of conversation recently.
It uses their Python sandbox, is available via API, and exposes the tool calls themselves as normal tool calls to the API client - should be really simple to use!
Batch tool calling has been a game-changer for the AI assistant we've built into our product recently, and this sounds like a further evolution of this, really (primarily, it's about speed; if you can accomplish 2x more tools calls in one turn, it will usually mean your agent is now 2x faster).
The "write code to call tools instead of calling them directly" has been such an obvious path, the team at Huggingface & smolagents figured that out a while ago, agents that write code instead of natural language are just better for most cases.