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Agent skill

Tools

by ai-driven-dev in ai-driven-dev/framework

Defines or modifies what the project targets, under src/contexts/tools/ — an AI/IDE tool profile, its build contract, the content-translation capability classes it composes…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Tools

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill tools -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ai-driven-dev/framework tools --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-driven-dev/framework.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli/.claude/skills/tools .claude/skills/tools && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
tools
GitHub stars
513
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
457 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
46
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Defines or modifies what the project targets, under src/contexts/tools/ — an AI/IDE tool profile, its build contract, the content-translation capability classes it composes…

  • Adding a new AI
  • SKILL.md covers What goes in, How, Public surface and How it's tested
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Changing a tools Has capability intersection

What it does

Tools is an agent skill from ai-driven-dev/framework. Defines or modifies what the project targets, under src/contexts/tools/ — an AI/IDE tool profile, its build contract, the content-translation capability classes it composes (agents/skills/commands/rules/hooks), and its own native-plugin adapter. Use when adding a new AI or IDE tool, changing a tool's Has capability intersection, adding or modifying a capability class, or declaring a tool's aidd translate build contract. Do NOT use for the canonical-to-native translation pipeline itself — use translate. Do NOT use…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/build-contract.md`, `references/capability-conventions.md` and `references/content-rewrite.md`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Translation. The repository describes itself as: Marketplace Framework AI-Driven Dev : Context Engineering, Plugins, Agents, Skills, Hooks, Templates, SDLC. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Adding a new AI
  • Changing a tools Has capability intersection
  • Modifying a capability class
  • Declaring a tools aidd translate build contract

Example prompts

  • “Use the tools skill to define or modifies what the project targets, under src/contexts/tools/ — an AI/IDE tool profile, its build contract, the…”
  • “/tools”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e30640. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Tools loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 164 tokens; SKILL.md has 457 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~164
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ai-driven-dev/framework at commit 6e30640, republished under its MIT licence (© ai-driven-dev). 457 words, ~1,116 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/tools/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
tools
description
Defines or modifies what the project targets, under src/contexts/tools/ — an AI/IDE tool profile, its build contract, the content-translation capability classes it composes (agents/skills/commands/rules/hooks), and its own native-plugin adapter. Use when adding a new AI or IDE tool, changing a tool's Has* capability intersection, adding or modifying a capability class, or declaring a tool's `aidd translate` build contract. Do NOT use for the canonical-to-native translation pipeline itself — use `translate`. Do NOT use for where plugin content comes from — use `distribution`. Do NOT use for manifest or install orchestration — use `framework`.

Tools

tools is what the project targets and how each target is configured. Every AI assistant and IDE the CLI supports is one AiTool<C> or IdeToolConfig object in contexts/tools/domain/profiles/<tool>/profile.ts, where C is the intersection of Has* capability interfaces the tool actually supports. translate depends on tools (never the reverse) to call the tool's own rewriteContent and to read its build contract — a tool profile is data and behavior the rest of the CLI is handed, not a place that reaches out to fetch or install anything itself.

What goes in

ConceptLocation
A tool's identity, capabilities, content-rewritedomain/profiles/<tool>/profile.ts
A tool's aidd translate build behaviordomain/profiles/<tool>/build.ts (only if the tool is a build target)
A string transform used by exactly one profilethat profile's own directory
A string transform shared by ≥2 profilesdomain/formats/
A content-translation capability class (agents/skills/commands/rules/hooks)domain/capabilities/ + a Has* entry in contracts.ts
Catalog/manifest shaping shared by ≥2 tools' build contractsdomain/marketplace-catalog.ts
A port only tools needsdomain/ports/
A tool's own plugin-CLI driverinfrastructure/

How

  • AiTool<C> fields: read domain/contracts.ts. A list copied here aged at every field.
  • Has* interfaces live in contracts.ts, always readonly, never optional — a tool either includes Has<Name> in its C intersection or does not have the field at all. Guard presence with "name" in tool.capabilities, never instanceof.
  • rewriteContent(content) is one way, per tool, with no reverse and no shared base helper. See references/content-rewrite.md.
  • A capability class ends in Capability, takes one params object, all fields readonly, throws CapabilityConfigError (from kernel/errors.ts) on an invalid combination, carries no application/infrastructure imports. See references/capability-conventions.md.
  • PluginsCapability has three modes (native, flat, unsupported) and a translationMode (marketplace | flat | null) — see references/plugins-capability.md.
  • Build behavior is ONE artifact-symmetric ToolBuildContract per tool, read by the two mode-generic orchestrators (MarketplaceBuildStrategy, FlatBuildStrategy) in translate — never a per-tool strategy class, never a per-tool or per-artifact-kind branch in an orchestrator. See references/build-contract.md.
  • registerTool(config) is called once, at the bottom of profile.ts, never from a use-case.
  • Follow the port/adapter rule in .claude/rules/00-architecture/ for the shape of a port and its adapter, and the shared-module rule there before promoting a helper out of a single profile.
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Public surface

Nothing outside contexts/tools/ may import a module this context has not declared public — tests/architecture/context-boundary.arch.test.ts holds the list (PUBLIC_MODULES.tools). A new module is invisible to translate and framework until it is added there; there is no index.ts and there never will be (barrels are forbidden by the export rule in .claude/rules/01-standards/).

How it's tested

  • tests/contexts/tools/ mirrors src/contexts/tools/ — one profile's profile.ts/build.ts gets a unit test asserting the AiTool<C> type is satisfied and each rewrite rule holds.
  • tests/architecture/tool-addition-cost.arch.test.ts ratchets how many files outside a new tool's own directory must change to add it — keep new tool-specific logic inside the profile.
  • See the test skill for tier conventions; capability/format round-trip tests are unit-tier.

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Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in cli/.claude/skills/tools of ai-driven-dev/framework.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/build-contract.md
  • references/capability-conventions.md
  • references/content-rewrite.md
  • references/plugins-capability.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e30640

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Questions about Tools

What does Tools do?

Defines or modifies what the project targets, under src/contexts/tools/ — an AI/IDE tool profile, its build contract, the content-translation capability classes it composes…. Tools is an agent skill from ai-driven-dev/framework. Defines or modifies what the project targets, under src/contexts/tools/ — an AI/IDE tool profile, its build contract, the content-translation capability classes it composes (agents/skills/commands/rules/hooks), and its own native-plugin adapter.

When should I use Tools?

Tools fits situations like: adding a new AI; changing a tools Has capability intersection; modifying a capability class; declaring a tools aidd translate build contract.

How do I install Tools in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill tools -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (cli/.claude/skills/tools in ai-driven-dev/framework) into .claude/skills/tools in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Tools in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill tools -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (cli/.claude/skills/tools in ai-driven-dev/framework) into .agents/skills/tools in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Tools in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill tools -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/tools, .gemini/skills/tools, .github/skills/tools and .opencode/skills/tools in your project.

What does Tools need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Tools is instructions for the agent only.

Does Tools access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Tools safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Tools use?

Tools is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Tools use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 3.1k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Tools?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Tools: Translation Diff Export (Devolutions/UniGetUI, 26k stars), Sync Translations (symfony/symfony, 31k stars), Translation Diff Import (Devolutions/UniGetUI, 26k stars) and Translation Diff Translate (Devolutions/UniGetUI, 26k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Tools?

ai-driven-dev (a GitHub organization) maintains it in ai-driven-dev/framework, which has 513 GitHub stars. The repository holds 46 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: ai-driven-dev/framework on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.