tool-builder

tool-builder is an agent for Claude Code from MattArtzAnthro/AI-Anthropology-Toolkit. It costs 635 tokens per session (2,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An agent for designing and checking new computational tools, skills, agents, or MCP tools for researchers. MCP is a standard way for AI assistants to connect to outside tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports the full process of defining, building, and verifying a research instrument or toolkit component.
Why use it?
It helps turn a desired research outcome into a clear, testable tool specification instead of focusing only on writing code.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the ai-anthropology plugin — 28 skills, 4 commands, 10 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It supports the full process of defining, building, and verifying a research instrument or toolkit component.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mattartzanthro/ai-anthropology-toolkit/tool-builder
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MattArtzAnthro/AI-Anthropology-Toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-anthropology, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 4 commands, 10 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tool-builder

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mattartzanthro/ai-anthropology-toolkit/tool-builder/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/mattartzanthro/ai-anthropology-toolkit/tool-builder)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mattartzanthro/ai-anthropology-toolkit/tool-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mattartzanthro/ai-anthropology-toolkit/tool-builder/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for tool-builder

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mattartzanthro/ai-anthropology-toolkit/tool-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mattartzanthro/ai-anthropology-toolkit/tool-builder.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 635 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,118 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00635 $0.02118
Opus 5 $0.00318 $0.01059
Sonnet 5 $0.00127 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00064 $0.00212

Measured 9d ago against content hash c1b9637bb2ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tool-builder scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/tool-builder.md · 162 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 162 lines · 635 tokens per session scan A c1b9637bb2ff

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tool-builder is an agent published in the GitHub repository MattArtzAnthro/AI-Anthropology-Toolkit (24 stars, last pushed 10d ago), with no licence file. It adds 635 tokens to every session and 2,118 once invoked, about $0.0032 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.