agent-tool-builder

agent-tool-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ranbot-ai/awesome-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A design guide for creating tools that let AI agents interact with external systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing agent tools, especially to make their inputs, outputs, and behavior clear and reliable.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from hallucinating, failing silently, or using far more tokens than necessary when tools are poorly designed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when designing agent tools, especially to make their inputs, outputs, and behavior clear and reliable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ranbot-ai/awesome-skills/agent-tool-builder
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 ranbot-ai/awesome-skills --skill agent-tool-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ranbot-ai/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 804 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 $0.00044 $0.00804
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00322
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00080

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1616740b261e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-tool-builder 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 3d 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.

skills/agent-tool-builder/SKILL.md · 100 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

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. 3d ago Changed · +8 lines · -2 tokens per session 1616740b261e
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -99 lines bc983778d554
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 191 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 59fecaf10e30

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agent-tool-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository ranbot-ai/awesome-skills (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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