What is tools?

HacktronAI/tools is a small reference repository that collects the tool schemas used by different AI coding agents. When a coding assistant like Claude Code or similar agents gives its underlying model access to tools, such as an edit tool for changing files, that tool has to be described to the model in a very specific shape, usually as a JSON schema listing the tool's name, what it does, and what parameters it expects. Different agent products define these tool shapes differently, even for the same underlying task. The README explains why this matters: if you hand a model a tool shaped differently than the one it was actually trained on, especially something as sensitive as an edit tool, you risk the model making mistakes or producing schema errors, which hurts its performance. This project exists to document those real, verbatim tool definitions from each agent so people can see exactly how each one is shaped, rather than guessing or reinventing them. The repository is organized by provider. Each provider gets its own folder containing a metadata file describing the provider, agent name, and version, along with individual JSON files for each tool describing its name, capability, description, and parameters. A separate mappings file links specific model IDs to their matching provider. There is also a folder with pseudo-code specifications for edit tool implementations, covering operations like string replacement and patch application, plus a sources document tracking where each schema definition came from. A small web interface is included that reads a public API file to let you browse the collected schemas. The intended use, per the README, is to hand one of these schemas to your own agent and ask it to build a working tool that matches that exact shape. The project is written in TypeScript and the README itself is quite sparse, focused mainly on explaining the folder layout rather than providing extensive documentation or examples.