Agent Tool Design — Design skill for Claude Code
The Agent Tool Contract — 5 principles for designing tools agents call reliably: predictable signature, rich errors, token-efficient output, idempotency, graceful degradation.
How to install Agent Tool Design
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/oimiragieo-agent-studio-agent-tool-design.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oimiragieo/agent-studio/HEAD/.claude/commands/agent-tool-design.md -o ~/.claude/commands/oimiragieo-agent-studio-agent-tool-design.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Agent Tool Design does
description: 'The Agent Tool Contract — 5 principles for designing tools agents call reliably: predictable signature, rich errors, token-efficient output, idempotency, graceful degradation. Includes anti-pattern table with 8 common mistakes.' disable-model-invocation: true
Invoke the agent-tool-design skill and follow it exactly as presented to you
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