tool-design - Design effective tools for agents
Designs agent tools, descriptions, interfaces, naming conventions, response formats, and tool collections for reliable use.
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Updated: 2026-09-30Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Design agent tools
- Write tool descriptions
- Consolidate overlapping tools
- Reduce tool architecture
- Optimize response formats
- Design actionable errors
- Standardize tool conventions
- Evaluate tool collections
- Apply MCP qualified names
Inputs
- Tool requirements
- Existing tool definitions
- Tool collections
- Codebase conventions
- MCP server names
Outputs
- Tool specifications
- Tool descriptions
- Naming conventions
- Consolidation recommendations
- Architectural reduction recommendations
- Response format guidance
- Error message guidance