version: "1.0.0" name: smart-tool-creator description: >- Create, validate, and evaluate smart tools that follow the Amplifier Smart Tool Spec, by driving the smart-tool-creator smart tool from a CLI, a library, or an agent. Use when (1) packaging domain expertise as a standalone tool any agent can call, (2) checking an existing smart tool against the spec and its conformance kit, (3) measuring how well a smart tool's model-backed capabilities work. Triggers on "smart tool", "smart-tool-creator", "amplifier smart tool", "conformance kit", "SMART_TOOL.md", "smart-tool.json". license: MIT metadata: author: DavidKoleczek repository: https://github.com/microsoft/amplifier-smart-tool-creator

Using smart-tool-creator

A smart tool for building smart tools. It scaffolds the structure the spec requires, checks a tool against the spec, and evaluates a tool's model-backed capabilities in isolation.

Install

# as a CLI, choosing the agent provider(s) you want
uv tool install "amplifier-smart-tool-creator[all | copilot | amplifier-agent | codex | claude] @ git+https://github.com/microsoft/amplifier-smart-tool-creator"
 
# as a library
uv add "amplifier-smart-tool-creator[all] @ git+https://github.com/microsoft/amplifier-smart-tool-creator"
 
# once, without installing
uvx --from "amplifier-smart-tool-creator[all] @ git+https://github.com/microsoft/amplifier-smart-tool-creator" smart-tool-creator --help

Use it

Run smart-tool-creator --help. It prints the tool's skill: when to use it, every capability, sharp edges, and which files to read. Follow it. Then read the capability's own skill with smart-tool-creator <command> --help before calling it: it carries the arguments, a worked invocation, and the result. Never work from memory.

Keep it current

Keep the tool up to date for the user by default if the permission mode allows it using uv tool upgrade amplifier-smart-tool-creator. Keep the skill up to date for the user with npx skills update smart-tool-creator, adding -g for global installs. Do not try to get around restrictions or operate against the user's preferences to update tools (or skills).