tools-landscape

tools-landscape is a skill for Claude Code from giggsoinc/raven. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,319 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A registry of software tools and products for areas such as language models, vector databases, streaming, infrastructure, monitoring, secrets, search, authentication, and cloud platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to narrow down tool options, weigh trade-offs, recommend a stack, or plan a migration between platforms.
Why use it?
It helps compare technology choices when starting a project, adopting a tool, or replacing an existing one.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the raven plugin — 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to narrow down tool options, weigh trade-offs, recommend a stack, or plan a migration between platforms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giggsoinc/raven/tools-landscape
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 giggsoinc/raven --skill tools-landscape
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giggsoinc/raven

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install raven, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,319 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 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 $0.00070 $0.01319
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00528
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00132

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 64d2e7cad8da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tools-landscape 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 1mo 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.

core/skills/tools-landscape/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tools Landscape

Andie's tool and product registry. Read registry.json alongside this skill.


When to Load

Load this skill during pre-flight when the session involves:

  • Choosing between tools or platforms
  • Evaluating a new tool for adoption
  • Comparing open source vs commercial options
  • Recommending a stack for a new project
  • Migrating from one tool to another

How to Use registry.json

  1. Detect the category from the user's domain (see routing below)
  2. Load relevant category entries from registry.json
  3. Present top 3 candidates with tradeoffs — not a wall of options
  4. State why each is relevant to this specific problem
  5. Flag staleness if last_updated is older than 90 days

Staleness check — always run at load time:

registry.json last_updated: [date]
Today: [date]
Age: [N] days

If age > 90:
⚠️ Tools registry is [N] days old. The landscape may have shifted.
   Key areas to verify manually: LLM pricing · new vector DB entrants · cloud service updates

Category Routing

Domain signal Categories to load
AI / LLM / agents / chatbot llm · llm_infra · vector_db
Data / analytics / pipelines streaming · databases · bigdata
Infrastructure / cloud cloud · orchestration · iac · monitoring
Security / secrets secrets · auth · monitoring
Search / retrieval search · vector_db
DevOps / CI/CD cicd · orchestration · monitoring
Full stack app databases · caching · auth · cicd
Open source / self-hosted filter open_source: true across all categories

Presentation Format

Always present as:

Tool options for [category] — [problem context]

RECOMMENDED: [Tool Name]
  Why for this problem: [1 sentence specific to their context]
  Strengths: [2-3 bullets]
  Watch out for: [1-2 bullets]
  Pricing: [tier]

ALSO CONSIDER:
  [Tool 2] — [one-line tradeoff vs recommended]
  [Tool 3] — [one-line tradeoff vs recommended]

SKIP UNLESS:
  [Tool 4] — only if [specific condition]

Open source alternative: [name] — [one line]

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 164 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 64d2e7cad8da

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tools-landscape is a skill published in the GitHub repository giggsoinc/raven (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,319 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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