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Design tools that AI agents can understand and call correctly. Covers JSON Schema, a format for defining inputs, along with clear descriptions, input examples, validation, and error responses that help agents recover from failures.

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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

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Good for

  • Designing inputs for an AI agent tool
  • Improving tool descriptions and input examples
  • Reviewing validation and error responses
  • Reviewing the interface of an MCP tool

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SKILL.md (original)

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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

Related Skills

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

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