create-tool

A development guide for creating FrontMCP tools—actions that AI clients can call through the Model Context Protocol.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or review class-based or function-based tools, define schemas, handle failures, add access controls or rate limits, expose tool interfaces, and write unit tests.
Why use it?
It brings input validation, outputs, dependencies, errors, limits, authentication, user interfaces, metadata, registration, and testing into one set of instructions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentfront/frontmcp/create-tool
Any agent
npx skills add agentfront/frontmcp --skill create-tool
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentfront/frontmcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 456 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,749 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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 $0.00456 $0.05749
Opus 5 $0.00228 $0.02874
Sonnet 5 $0.00091 $0.01150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00575

Measured yesterday against content hash e6fd16c98ad3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-tool scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

YES → use this.fetch(input, init?) (context propagation)
libs/skills/catalog/create-tool/SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create a FrontMCP Tool

Tools are the primary way to expose executable actions to AI clients in the MCP protocol. In FrontMCP, every tool is a TypeScript class that extends ToolContext, decorated with @Tool({...}), and registered on an @App (or directly on @FrontMcp for simple servers).

This skill is the single source of truth for building tools. It owns:

  • The @Tool decorator surface
  • Input / output schemas and how to derive execute() types from them
  • Dependency injection, error handling, progress / notifications
  • Throttling: rate-limit, concurrency, timeout
  • Auth providers and the credential vault
  • Platform / runtime / surface availability constraints
  • Elicitation (interactive input mid-execution)
  • Tool UI widgets — the ui: block, MCP Apps / SEP-1865, .tsx FileSource, CSP, window.FrontMcpBridge
  • Annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint)
  • The examples metadata field
  • Function-style tools, remote / ESM tools
  • Registration patterns
  • Per-tool unit testing

For everything else — resources, prompts, agents, jobs, workflows, adapters, plugins, providers, channels — use the matching create-<thing> skill.

First time? Start with references/quick-start.md, then jump to the example matching your scenario via the Decision Tree below.


Inherited defaults

This skill ALWAYS applies these defaults — never opt out without an audited reason:

Default Source What it enforces
inputSchema is a Zod raw shape rules/input-schema-is-raw-shape.md Plain object mapping field → Zod type. Framework wraps internally. Never z.object(...) at the top level.
outputSchema is always defined rules/always-define-output-schema.md Prevents data leaks, enables CodeCall chaining, gives compile-time type safety.
execute() types are derived from the schemas rules/derive-execute-types.md ToolInputOf<> / ToolOutputOf<> over the hoisted schemas. Schema is the single source of truth.
class MyTool extends ToolContext — no generics rules/no-toolcontext-generics.md Types are auto-inferred from @Tool. Explicit generics are redundant and forbidden.
Tool names are snake_case rules/snake-case-tool-names.md MCP protocol convention. get_weather, not getWeather.
No try/catch around execute() rules/no-try-catch-around-execute.md The framework's flow catches and formats errors. Wrapping defeats it.
this.fail(new McpError(…)) for business errors rules/use-this-fail-for-business-errors.md Triggers the error flow with proper JSON-RPC codes. Raw throw skips it.
Register tools in @App({ tools }) rules/register-in-app.md Apps own modularity and lifecycle. Top-level @FrontMcp({ tools }) is the simple-server escape hatch.
.tsx widget paths use fileURLToPath(new URL('./x.tsx', import.meta.url)) rules/widget-paths-anchor-with-import-meta-url.md Relative FileSource paths resolve against process.cwd() — the workaround is mandatory (issue #444).
Leave ui.resourceMode unset by default rules/widget-resource-mode-host-detect.md The framework host-detects: Claude → 'inline', others → 'cdn' (issue #456). Set explicitly only to override.

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 lines

Files

What ships with it

53 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 319 lines · 456 tokens per session scan A e6fd16c98ad3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-tool is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentfront/frontmcp (147 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 456 tokens to every session and 5,749 once invoked, about $0.0023 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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