@agentskit/tools

@agentskit/tools

Give your agents real-world capabilities without writing a single integration.

Tags: ai · agents · llm · agentskit · ai-agents · function-calling · tool-use · mcp · web-search · filesystem

Why tools

• Save days of integration work — web search, filesystem read/write, shell execution, and directory listing are ready to drop in; no wiring required
• Safe by default — filesystem tools are sandboxed to a basePath, shell commands require an explicit allowlist, so agents can't escape their boundaries
• Composable with any runtime — tools are just objects with a schema; they work with @agentskit/runtime, useChat, or any custom ReAct loop
• Extend without friction — author custom tools with @agentskit/templates and register them the same way as built-ins

Install

npm install @agentskit/tools

Quick example

import { createRuntime } from '@agentskit/runtime'
import { openai } from '@agentskit/adapters'
import { webSearch, filesystem, shell } from '@agentskit/tools'

const runtime = createRuntime({
  adapter: openai({ apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY, model: 'gpt-4o' }),
  tools: [
    webSearch(),
    ...filesystem({ basePath: './workspace' }),
    shell({ timeout: 10_000, allowed: ['ls', 'cat', 'grep'] }),
  ],
})

const result = await runtime.run('Find the README and summarize it')
console.log(result.content)

With useChat (browser)

Tools are plain ToolDefinition values — register them in useChat the same way as in createRuntime.

Authoring tools with defineZodTool

If you use Zod, @agentskit/tools ships defineZodTool — a factory that:

• Types execute args from a Zod schema (full TypeScript inference)
• Validates args at runtime via schema.parse before calling your function
• Converts the Zod schema to JSON Schema for the adapter via a user-supplied toJsonSchema callback

Zod and zod-to-json-schema are not bundled — install them as peer dependencies.

npm install zod zod-to-json-schema

import { z } from 'zod'
import { zodToJsonSchema } from 'zod-to-json-schema'
import { defineZodTool } from '@agentskit/tools'
import type { JSONSchema7 } from 'json-schema'

const lookupUser = defineZodTool({
  name: 'lookup_user',
  description: 'Look up a user by ID.',
  schema: z.object({
    userId: z.string().uuid(),
    includeProfile: z.boolean().optional(),
  }),
  toJsonSchema: (s) => zodToJsonSchema(s) as JSONSchema7,
  async execute(args) {
    // args.userId         → string  (UUID-validated by Zod at runtime)
    // args.includeProfile → boolean | undefined
    return await db.users.findById(args.userId, { profile: args.includeProfile })
  },
})

For tools without Zod, use defineTool from @agentskit/core with a JSON Schema as const.

Features

• webSearch() — live web search for agents
• filesystem({ basePath }) — sandboxed read, write, list, delete
• shell({ allowed }) — shell execution with command allowlist
• defineZodTool — Zod-based tool factory with runtime validation and type inference
• All tools follow ToolDefinition contract (ADR 0002) — parallel tool calling supported
• Works in @agentskit/runtime, useChat, or any custom loop

Ecosystem

Package	Role
@agentskit/core	ToolDefinition contract
@agentskit/runtime	createRuntime({ tools })
@agentskit/react	useChat + tools in the UI
@agentskit/templates	Scaffold new tools

Contributors

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Docs

Full documentation · GitHub