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tool-design is agent-read markdown (skill) from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher: Design the tools a model calls — names, parameter shapes, what a result returns, and error text written as an instruction the model can act on. Use when adding or reshaping a tool or function an LLM invokes, when an agent keeps calling the wrong tool or passing malformed arguments, or when reviewing a tool surface someone else defined. Not for building the MCP server that hosts the tools (mcp-design), not for forcing a model's final answer into a schema (structured-output), and not for prompt wo.

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# Tool design

A tool definition is a prompt. The model never sees your implementation — it sees the name, the
description, the parameter schema, and whatever came back last time. Most "the model is bad at
using tools" is a tool that told the model the wrong thing.

## When this fires

Adding a tool to an agent, changing an existing tool's parameters or return value, or diagnosing
an agent that picks the wrong tool, passes bad arguments, loops, or stalls after a call. It does
not fire for an internal function no model ever invokes.

## Procedure

1. **Start from the task, not the API.** List the things the agent must accomplish, then define one
   tool per accomplishment. A thin one-to-one wrapper over an existing HTTP API pushes the
   orchestration into the model, which pays for it in extra turns and wrong guesses. Prefer one
   `schedule_meeting` over `list_calendars` + `get_availability` + `create_event` unless the agent
   genuinely needs the intermediate steps.
2. **Count the tools.** A large, overlapping surface is the main cause of wrong-tool selection. If
   two tools could plausibly answer the same request, either merge them or make each description
…

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7156 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher · 49 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main

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