ai-tool-picker

ai-tool-picker is a skill for Claude Code from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 136 tokens per session (1,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for choosing whether a task needs an AI tool and, if so, which kind: a chatbot, coding assistant, image model, research agent, automation tool, or specialist application. It compares options using the constraints that matter for the task.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps select tools for writing, coding, images, research, automation, and other tasks, compare trade-offs such as accuracy and privacy, and run a small trial before committing.
Why use it?
It avoids forcing every job through one familiar tool or choosing based on general hype. It also identifies cases where a normal non-AI tool or human work is the better choice.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-ai-native plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps select tools for writing, coding, images, research, automation, and other tasks, compare trade-offs such as accuracy and privacy, and run a small trial before committing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/ai-tool-picker
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,449 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill ai-tool-picker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-ai-native, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,077 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 $0.00136 $0.01077
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.00431
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00108

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7eafa82fff9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-tool-picker 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 2d 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/pm-ai-native/skills/ai-tool-picker/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-Tool Picker

Most people reach for the one AI tool they know and force every task through it — or freeze because there are a hundred options and endless hype. The right question isn't "what's the best AI tool," it's "what kind of tool fits this task." This matches your task to the right category of AI (or none), names the trade-offs that actually matter for your case, and shows how to try it cheaply — so you choose by fit, not by marketing.

What This Skill Produces

  • The task-to-tool match — which category of tool fits (conversational assistant, coding assistant, image/video model, research agent, automation, specialized app) and why
  • The trade-offs that matter for you — the 2–3 dimensions that actually decide it for this task (accuracy, privacy, cost, speed, integration), not a generic feature grid
  • The "you don't need AI for this" call — when a non-AI tool or plain human effort is genuinely the better answer
  • A cheap way to try it — how to test the fit with a free tier or a small task before committing time or money
  • A shortlist, not a lecture — a couple of concrete options in the right category, chosen for your constraints

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The task — what you're actually trying to get done
  • Your constraints — budget, privacy needs, where it has to fit (a workflow, a tool you already use)
  • Your current tools — what you already have access to (often the answer's already in your pocket)
  • The stakes — one-off vs recurring, low-stakes vs must-be-right

Framework: Fit The Task, Not The Hype

  1. Name the task shape. Is it generation, transformation, research, decision support, or automation? The shape points to the tool category far better than brand names do.
  2. Pick the category first. Match the shape to a kind of tool (assistant, coding, image, agent, specialized) before naming any product — categories are stable, products churn.
  3. Find the 2–3 deciding trade-offs. For this specific task, what actually decides it — accuracy, privacy, cost, speed, integration? Ignore the dimensions that don't matter here.
  4. Check if AI is even the answer. Some tasks are better done by a non-AI tool, a template, or ten minutes of human effort — say so when it's true.
  5. Recommend a cheap test. Suggest trying the fit on a small real task via a free tier before investing — fit is revealed by use, not spec sheets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 65 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 7eafa82fff9c

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ai-tool-picker is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,449 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 1,077 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-10-12.

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