Official agent skill

Agent Builder Tool Review

by elastic in elastic/kibana

Review Agent Builder tool registrations for availability scoping, MCP hygiene, description quality, return value design, single responsibility, and annotation correctness.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Agent Builder Tool Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add elastic/kibana --skill agent-builder-tool-review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install elastic/kibana agent-builder-tool-review --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/elastic/kibana.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/agent-builder-tool-review .claude/skills/agent-builder-tool-review && 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-builder-tool-review
GitHub stars
21k
Token cost
~2.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,369 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
40
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Review Agent Builder tool registrations for availability scoping, MCP hygiene, description quality, return value design, single responsibility, and annotation correctness.

  • Works in 4 steps: Find the registering plugin's… → Check if the plugin or feature has… → If gated by a runtime condition: verify… → …
  • Reviewing PRs that add
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Scope, Canonical References and Critical Checks, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Agent Builder Tool Review is an agent skill from elastic/kibana, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Review Agent Builder tool registrations for availability scoping, MCP hygiene, description quality, return value design, single responsibility, and annotation correctness. Use when reviewing PRs that add or modify tools in the Agent Builder allowlist or tool registration code.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/common-issues.md`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Building AI agents. It works with Model Context Protocol and Elasticsearch. The repository describes itself as: Your window into all of your data.

When your agent uses it

  • Reviewing PRs that add
  • Modify tools in the Agent Builder allowlist
  • Tool registration code

Example prompts

  • “/agent-builder-tool-review”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Find the registering plugin's kibana.jsonc and feature registration (look for features.registerKibanaFeature or…
  2. Check if the plugin or feature has runtime gates: project-type restrictions (supportedProjectTypes), license requirements…
  3. If gated by a runtime condition: verify the tool has an availability handler matching those conditions. If the handler checks…
  4. If not gated: confirm the tool genuinely works across all project types and deployment modes

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ee7c86b. 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 Builder Tool Review loads about 2.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,369 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.9k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.5k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,369 words (~2,854 tokens).

“Review Agent Builder tool registrations and allowlist changes against this checklist. Produce actionable, PR-review-ready findings grounded in the changed code and its direct imports.”

— opening of SKILL.md by elastic, Custom licence
name
agent-builder-tool-review

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in .agents/skills/agent-builder-tool-review of elastic/kibana.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/common-issues.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ee7c86b

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Questions about Agent Builder Tool Review

What does Agent Builder Tool Review do?

Review Agent Builder tool registrations for availability scoping, MCP hygiene, description quality, return value design, single responsibility, and annotation correctness. Agent Builder Tool Review is an agent skill from elastic/kibana, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Review Agent Builder tool registrations for availability scoping, MCP hygiene, description quality, return value design, single responsibility, and annotation correctness.

When should I use Agent Builder Tool Review?

Agent Builder Tool Review fits situations like: reviewing PRs that add; modify tools in the Agent Builder allowlist; tool registration code.

How do I install Agent Builder Tool Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add elastic/kibana --skill agent-builder-tool-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/agent-builder-tool-review in elastic/kibana) into .claude/skills/agent-builder-tool-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Agent Builder Tool Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add elastic/kibana --skill agent-builder-tool-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/agent-builder-tool-review in elastic/kibana) into .agents/skills/agent-builder-tool-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Agent Builder Tool Review 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 elastic/kibana --skill agent-builder-tool-review -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-builder-tool-review, .gemini/skills/agent-builder-tool-review, .github/skills/agent-builder-tool-review and .opencode/skills/agent-builder-tool-review in your project.

What does Agent Builder Tool Review need to run?

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

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

Agent Builder Tool Review has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Agent Builder Tool Review use?

About 2.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 11k 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 1.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Agent Builder Tool Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Agent Builder Tool Review: Agent Squad Python Guide (2FastLabs/agent-squad, 7.8k stars), Workflow AI Coding (w8123/EnterpriseAgentFramework, 836 stars), Synalinks (SynaLinks/synalinks-skills, 907 stars) and AgentSquad for Swift (2FastLabs/agent-squad, 7.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Agent Builder Tool Review?

elastic (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in elastic/kibana, which has 21,310 GitHub stars. The repository holds 40 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: elastic/kibana on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.