in reply to Re: howto reference to a external sub/object/constructor thingy
in thread howto reference to a external sub/object/constructor thingy

That breaks inheritance. You oughtn't assume anything about how Tool gets or implements new(). I suggest instead:

my %states =
(
    module => sub { Tool->new( @_ ) },
);

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