sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills
agent-tool-builder
Tools are how AI agents interact with the world. A well-designed
Before you install
- Last update
- Files in folder
- 2
- Scripts
- No script files found
- SKILL.md size
- 3.1 KB (about 805 tokens of context each time it loads)
- License
- MIT
- Source on GitHub
- sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills
Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.
Install
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills@agent-tool-builderRuns in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills@agent-tool-builder --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/agent-tool-builder- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/agent-tool-builder
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /agent-tool-builder.
What it does
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 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 implementations. The LLM never sees your code - it only sees the schema and description.…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
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