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agent-tool-builder

Tools are how AI agents interact with the world. A well-designed tool is the difference between an agent that works and one that hallucinates, fails silently, or costs 10x more tokens than necessary. This skill covers tool design from sch

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  • AI research
  • 161

What it does and how to use it

A skill that teaches Claude Code to do ai research tasks well. It is packaged knowledge the model uses whenever it is relevant.

  1. Install the skill (command above).
  2. In Claude Code, describe what you need - the skill turns on by itself when the context fits.
  3. No commands to memorize: you talk in plain language and the skill does the rest.

Install (Claude Code)

mkdir -p .claude/skills/agent-tool-builder && curl -fsSL https://doutorai.pt/data/lib/skills__agent-tool-builder.md -o .claude/skills/agent-tool-builder/SKILL.md

Paste this command into the terminal, in your project folder, and the component installs automatically.

Content

---
name: agent-tool-builder
description: "Tools are how AI agents interact with the world. A well-designed tool is the difference between an agent that works and one that hallucinates, fails silently, or costs 10x more tokens than necessary.  This skill covers tool design from schema to error handling. JSON Schema best practices, description writing that actually helps the LLM, validation, and the emerging MCP standard that's becoming the lingua franca for AI tools.  Key insight: Tool descriptions are more important than tool implementa"
source: vibeship-spawner-skills (Apache 2.0)
---

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