Agent skill

Agent Tool Builder

by davila7 in davila7/claude-code-templates

Tools are how AI agents interact with the world. An agent skill from davila7/claude-code-templates.

MITAuto-check passedDatabases

Install Agent Tool Builder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill agent-tool-builder -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install davila7/claude-code-templates agent-tool-builder --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/davila7/claude-code-templates.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/agent-tool-builder .claude/skills/agent-tool-builder && 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
agent-tool-builder
GitHub stars
32k
Used in
3 other repos
Token cost
~417 tokens
SKILL.md length
140 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
477
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Tools are how AI agents interact with the world. An agent skill from davila7/claude-code-templates.

  • Tasks that involve Error handling
  • SKILL.md covers Capabilities, Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Related Skills
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Agent Tool Builder is an agent skill from davila7/claude-code-templates. 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

Its SKILL.md is about 420 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Databases, covering Error handling. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: CLI tool for configuring and monitoring Claude Code. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Error handling

Example prompts

  • “Use the agent-tool-builder skill to tool are how AI agents interact with the world. An agent skill from davila7/claude-code-templates”
  • “/agent-tool-builder”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 14680ec. 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

Agent Tool Builder loads about 417 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 130 tokens; SKILL.md has 140 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~130
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~417

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 davila7/claude-code-templates at commit 14680ec, republished under its MIT licence (© davila7). 140 words, ~417 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/agent-tool-builder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
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)

Agent Tool Builder

You are an expert in the interface between LLMs and the outside world. You've seen tools that work beautifully and tools that cause agents to hallucinate, loop, or fail silently. The difference is almost always in the design, not the implementation.

Your core insight: The LLM never sees your code. It only sees the schema and description. A perfectly implemented tool with a vague description will fail. A simple tool with crystal-clear documentation will succeed.

You push for explicit error hand

Capabilities

  • agent-tools
  • function-calling
  • tool-schema-design
  • mcp-tools
  • tool-validation
  • tool-error-handling

Patterns

Tool Schema Design

Creating clear, unambiguous JSON Schema for tools

Tool with Input Examples

Using examples to guide LLM tool usage

Tool Error Handling

Returning errors that help the LLM recover

Anti-Patterns

❌ Vague Descriptions
❌ Silent Failures
❌ Too Many Tools

Works well with: multi-agent-orchestration, api-designer, llm-architect, backend

© davila7, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/agent-tool-builder of davila7/claude-code-templates.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 14680ec

Used in 3 other repositories

We found 9 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 3 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in davila7/claude-code-templates, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Categories

Questions about Agent Tool Builder

What does Agent Tool Builder do?

Tools are how AI agents interact with the world. An agent skill from davila7/claude-code-templates. Agent Tool Builder is an agent skill from davila7/claude-code-templates. Tools are how AI agents interact with the world.

When should I use Agent Tool Builder?

Agent Tool Builder fits situations like: tasks that involve Error handling.

How do I install Agent Tool Builder in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill agent-tool-builder -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/agent-tool-builder in davila7/claude-code-templates) into .claude/skills/agent-tool-builder in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Agent Tool Builder in Codex?

Run `npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill agent-tool-builder -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/agent-tool-builder in davila7/claude-code-templates) into .agents/skills/agent-tool-builder in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Agent Tool Builder 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 davila7/claude-code-templates --skill agent-tool-builder -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/agent-tool-builder, .gemini/skills/agent-tool-builder, .github/skills/agent-tool-builder and .opencode/skills/agent-tool-builder in your project.

What does Agent Tool Builder need to run?

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

Does Agent Tool Builder 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 Agent Tool Builder 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 Agent Tool Builder use?

Agent Tool Builder 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 Agent Tool Builder use?

About 417 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Agent Tool Builder?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Agent Tool Builder: Logging Observability (getsentry/toolkit, 917 stars), Hugegraph Schema Designer (apache/hugegraph-ai, 144 stars), Navop (feigeCode/navop, 1.8k stars) and Semantic Model (data-goblin/power-bi-agentic-development, 1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Agent Tool Builder?

davila7 (a GitHub user) maintains it in davila7/claude-code-templates, which has 32,463 GitHub stars. The repository holds 477 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: davila7/claude-code-templates on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.