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name: tool-discovery description: "Recommend the right agents and skills for any task. Covers both heavyweight agents (Task tool) and lightweight skills (Skill tool). Triggers on: which agent, which skill, what tool should I use, help me choose, recommend agent, find the right tool." allowed-tools: "Read Glob" depends-on: [] related-skills: [claude-code-templates, claude-code-debug]

Tool Discovery

Recommend the right agents and skills for any task.

Decision Flowchart

CopyIs this a reference/lookup task?
├── YES → Use a SKILL (lightweight, auto-injects)
└── NO → Does it require reasoning/decisions?
         ├── YES → Use an AGENT (heavyweight, spawns subagent)
         └── MAYBE → Check catalogs below

Rule: Skills = patterns/reference. Agents = decisions/expertise.

Quick Skill Reference

Quick Agent Reference

How to Launch

Skills:

CopySkill tool → skill: "file-search"

Agents:

CopyTask tool → subagent_type: "python-expert"
         → prompt: "Your task"

Match by Task Type

Tips

• Skills are cheaper - Use for lookups, patterns
• Agents are powerful - Use for decisions, optimization
• Don't over-recommend - Max 2-3 tools per task

Additional Resources

For complete catalogs, load:

• ./references/agents-catalog.md - All agents with capabilities
• ./references/skills-catalog.md - All skills with details