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Advanced Tool Usage

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0xmsc·vlatest·agents·MIT

This skill enables complex interactions with external tools, streamlining workflows and automating tasks for enhanced efficiency.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add mscprojects/coding_assistant --skill advanced-tool-usage -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

0xmsc

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned 0xmsc/coding_assistant at 7f16bf3619.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
7f16bf3619
Manifest
src/coding_assistant/builtin/skills/advanced-tool-usage/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 78 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill enables AI agents to effectively utilize external tools and APIs. It facilitates complex workflows involving tool chaining, parameter extraction from tool outputs, and dynamic adaptation of subsequent actions based on those results. The agent can manage multiple tools concurrently and handle potential errors gracefully.

When to use it

  • Automating research tasks: The agent can use a search engine, summarize the results, then extract key data points into a spreadsheet.
  • Complex coding workflows: Chain together code generation, testing, and deployment tools for automated software development.
  • Data analysis pipelines: Use tools to fetch data from various sources, clean it, perform calculations, and generate visualizations.
  • Content creation: Combine image generation with text editing and publishing tools to automate content production.

Key capabilities

  • Tool chaining
  • Parameter extraction
  • Dynamic action adaptation
  • Concurrent tool management
  • Error handling

Example prompts

  • "Use the search tool to find articles about 'quantum computing', then summarize them using the summarization tool."
  • “Generate a Python script with the code generation tool, run it with the execution tool, and if errors occur, use the debugging tool.”
  • "Find product prices from multiple e-commerce sites using the web scraping tool, compare them, and output the results to a CSV file using the spreadsheet tool."

Tips & gotchas

The agent's effectiveness depends on accurate descriptions of available tools. Ensure that each tool has clear input/output specifications for optimal performance.