add-tool
SkillDev toolsScaffold a new Forge tool — implementation, registration, permission/risk metadata, sandbox routing, and a unit test. Use when adding anything to src/tools/.
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The instructions your AI receives, as published by hoangsonww/forge-agentic-coding-cli in .codex/skills/add-tool/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
A new tool touches four places. Do all four or the tool is half-registered.
1. src/tools/<name>.ts
zodschemas for input and output.- Declare both
sideEffect(none|read|write|network|exec) andrisk(low|medium|high|critical) on the schema. Be honest — these drive the permission classifier. - All filesystem access goes through
src/sandbox/fs.tshelpers. - All shell commands go through
src/sandbox/shell.ts+classifyCommandRisk. - Request permission via
requestPermission(src/permissions/manager.ts) before the side effect, not after. - Return
{ ok: true, data }/{ ok: false, error }. Throw only for programmer errors, and then useForgeRuntimeError.
2. Registration
Wire it into the registry, following the pattern of an existing tool
like src/tools/read-file.ts.
3. test/unit/<name>.test.ts
Minimum coverage:
- happy path with valid input,
- zod rejection on invalid input,
- permission denied → structured error (not throw),
- sandbox refuses path-escape,
- (if shell)
criticalcommand hard-blocked.
Use vi.mock for the permission manager and sandbox boundaries. No
real filesystem writes outside os.tmpdir().
4. Docs
If user-visible, update the tools table in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md and
the README "At a glance" count.
Finish with the verify skill.
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- 22
- Forks
- 9
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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add-tool-hoangsonww- Source
- github.com/hoangsonww/forge-agentic-coding-cli