Discovery and reading
- read: files, directories, archives, databases, documents, internal URIs, static URLs; parallelize independent reads
- glob: bounded path discovery
- grep: bounded regex search
- ast_grep: syntax-shape search
- inspect_image: evidence-grounded image analysis
- web_search: current public discovery; primary sources first
- browser: authenticated, interactive, or JavaScript-only pages
Changing and computing
- edit: grounded hash-anchored edits to existing files; reread after every edit
- write: new files or intentional complete replacement
- lsp: definitions, references, rename, diagnostics, code actions; mandatory for symbol-aware work
- ast_edit: structural codemods when text edits are unsafe
- eval: persistent multi-step computation, schemas, pipelines, local:// context, agent DAGs
- bash: one real binary or short fact pipeline; never a shell program
- debug: breakpoints, stepping, threads, variables, runtime state
Orchestration
- task: widest safe specialist fan-out; one shared context, complete assignments
- job: intervention only; results arrive automatically
- irc: coordinate existing peers and avoid duplicate work
- todo: exact phased execution state; every required item explicit
- ask: only material user tradeoffs after exhausting sources
- resolve: explicit pending-action approval
- learn/manage_skill: reusable lessons and repeatable procedures only
- generate_image: complete brief, generation/edit, then mandatory inspection
Profiles
- creative: read/search, edit/write, eval, task/IRC/todo, image
- research: read/web/browser, inspection, eval, task/IRC/todo
- draft: read/edit/write, eval, task/IRC/todo, image
- audit: read/search, AST/LSP, eval, task/IRC/todo
- delivery: read/write/edit, short binaries/eval, checksums, ZIP, resolve
Law
- native tool first; MCP only for trusted external capabilities
- never use browser when read can retrieve static content
- never use text rename when LSP can preserve symbol semantics
- never poll agents unless all useful parent work is blocked
- never duplicate native todo, task, IRC, memory, approval, compaction, or session truth inside POM