tool-primitive-selector

tool-primitive-selector is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills. It costs 205 tokens per session (2,675 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing how an agent capability should be exposed: as a command-line tool, an MCP server, a protocol for connecting models to services, or a Skill containing reusable instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing a new agent capability or deciding whether developers, automated jobs, or connected services should access it through a CLI, MCP, Skill, or combination.
Why use it?
It makes the choice based on how the capability will be used, secured, discovered, and composed instead of treating all interfaces as interchangeable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when designing a new agent capability or deciding whether developers, automated jobs, or connected services should access it through a CLI, MCP, Skill, or combination.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/tool-primitive-selector
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills --skill tool-primitive-selector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 205 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,675 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00205 $0.02675
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.01337
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00267

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2e3be606fd01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tool-primitive-selector 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (cli.py, lib.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

command surface, Unix-pipe composable (`curl|jq|grep` beats four MCP calls),
skills/tool-orchestration/tool-primitive-selector/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tool Primitive Selector

Overview

You have three distinct ways to give an agent a capability, and Ch6 is explicit that they are converging, not competing. The Google Workspace CLI is one tool with three interfaces: a CLI surface, a built-in MCP server mode, and 100+ prebuilt skills. So the question is rarely "which one?" but "which PRIMARY primitive, and what else should this ALSO be exposed as?"

Each primitive answers a different question for a different audience:

  • CLI answers "how does the agent PERFORM this operation?" Deterministic command surface, Unix-pipe composable (curl|jq|grep beats four MCP calls), self-describing via --help, invokable with no model in the loop. Models have internalized CLI grammar from millions of Stack Overflow answers and man pages. Costs ~400 tokens after dynamic discovery. Audience: the individual developer in build mode / CI, on a machine they trust.
  • MCP answers "how does the agent CONNECT to this service securely?" Model-callable server with schemas, runtime-discoverable, OAuth + scoped per-agent access control through gateways. Static schemas cost 23K-50K tokens before any reasoning, which is why runtime retrieval is mandatory at scale. Audience: enterprise teams, non-developer users, and unsupervised background agents that cannot be granted broad access.
  • SKILL answers "WHAT should the agent do, and in what order?" Encoded judgment / procedure the model reads. Natural language, no install, ~100 tokens, works for everyone. It is the meta-layer that makes the other two effective. Author it first regardless.

The selector profiles a capability along the chapter's four dimensions — who runs it, when, where, what access — plus a composability need, then scores the three primitives across six feature axes (deterministic surface, runtime-discoverable, access control, encodes judgment, personal fit, enterprise fit). It returns a primary recommendation AND an also_expose_as list, and places the audience on the personal-to-enterprise gradient with its governance implication.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 172 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A 2e3be606fd01

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tool-primitive-selector is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 205 tokens to every session and 2,675 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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