tool-design

tool-design is a skill for Claude Code from crouton-labs/crouton-kit. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for designing interfaces between language-model agents and tools. It covers tool descriptions, input rules, error messages, size of operations, and how tools work together.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports creating function-calling tools and MCP servers, writing tool descriptions, designing schemas, and debugging tool use.
Why use it?
It helps address problems such as agents choosing the wrong tool or inventing invalid inputs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the authoring plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit It supports creating function-calling tools and MCP servers, writing tool descriptions, designing schemas, and debugging tool use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/crouton-labs/crouton-kit/tool-design
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 crouton-labs/crouton-kit --skill tool-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crouton-labs/crouton-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install authoring, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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-design

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/crouton-labs/crouton-kit/tool-design/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/crouton-labs/crouton-kit/tool-design)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/crouton-labs/crouton-kit/tool-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/crouton-labs/crouton-kit/tool-design/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-design

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/crouton-labs/crouton-kit/tool-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/crouton-labs/crouton-kit/tool-design.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,043 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 $0.00069 $0.02043
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01022
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00204

Measured 10d ago against content hash a00d181857b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tool-design 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 10d 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.

plugins/authoring/skills/tool-design/SKILL.md · 127 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 127 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A a00d181857b7

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tool-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository crouton-labs/crouton-kit (25 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,043 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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