agent-tool-builder

Features and purpose

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. Use when "agent tool, function calling, tool schema, tool design, mcp server, mcp tool, tool use, build tool for agent, define function, input_schema, tool_use, tool_result, agents, tools, function-calling, mcp, json-schema, anthropic, openai, llm-tools" mentioned.

Quick start

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