Tools: App tool lifecycle and content contribution

Register tool invocations, output rules, context contribution, and delivery handling for existing complex App tools in one place.

Tools is an alias of ToolLifecycleRegistry, aimed at Apps that have invocations, goals, presentation, and delivery stages. When you only need ordinary tool execution, use the Core ToolRegistry directly; this Kit does not require every Agent to configure the whole lifecycle.

The constructor configures registration, invocationId, outputs, goalIds, contextFragment, and optional invocation ports; registerAll then seals. invoke returns a unified ToolResult; call(next,context) executes synchronously through a registered invocation. The optional contribution provides local behaviors such as inspect, rules, modelFields, visibleText, reviewDraft, recoveryContext, composition, and finalize. Invocation and final submission should still pass through the real authorization in App orchestration.

rules are sorted by order, and in composition at most one contributor owns the template for the current run. normalizer/finalizer can each be registered only once. copyTo copies compiled declarations and cannot bypass the target registration policy; runtime service dependencies remain owned by the original implementation. This Kit's stages, goals, and context fields are not required Core contracts.

Progressive examples for the same business case

Register one read-only tool for an existing App

Beginner · Node.js

TypeScript

import { Tools } from '@jangts/agent-core/kits/tools';
type Runtime = { decision: { type: string }; context: { canRead: boolean }; composition: string; phase: string; placement: string; normalizerArgs: []; result: string; receiver: undefined };
const tools = new Tools<Runtime>({
  registration: { kinds: ['read'], audiences: ['model'], effects: ['read'], isValidId: tool => !!tool.id, goalExists: id => id === 'explain' },
  invocationId: decision => decision.type, outputs: () => [], goalIds: () => ['explain'],
  contextFragment() { throw new Error('这个工具没有登记上下文字段'); },
});
tools.registerAll([{ id: 'read-source', kind: 'read', description: '读取已允许说明', audience: 'model', effect: 'read', goalIds: ['explain'], parseInput: value => value, parseOutput: value => value, execute: () => '接口说明' }]).seal();
console.log(tools.invoke({ toolId: 'read-source', input: {} }).value);
console.log(tools.describe('model', { canRead: true }));

JavaScript

import { Tools } from '@jangts/agent-core/kits/tools';
const tools = new Tools({
    registration: { kinds: ['read'], audiences: ['model'], effects: ['read'], isValidId: tool => !!tool.id, goalExists: id => id === 'explain' },
    invocationId: decision => decision.type, outputs: () => [], goalIds: () => ['explain'],
    contextFragment() { throw new Error('这个工具没有登记上下文字段'); },
});
tools.registerAll([{ id: 'read-source', kind: 'read', description: '读取已允许说明', audience: 'model', effect: 'read', goalIds: ['explain'], parseInput: value => value, parseOutput: value => value, execute: () => '接口说明' }]).seal();
console.log(tools.invoke({ toolId: 'read-source', input: {} }).value);
console.log(tools.describe('model', { canRead: true }));

Add App rules and presentation contribution to the same registration

Configuration · Node.js

active affects real tool availability and description; business authorization must still verify server-side identity at the actual invocation boundary.

TypeScript

import { Tools } from '@jangts/agent-core/kits/tools';
type Runtime = { decision: { type: string }; context: { canRead: boolean }; composition: string; phase: string; placement: string; normalizerArgs: []; result: string; receiver: undefined };
const tools = new Tools<Runtime>({
  registration: { kinds: ['read'], audiences: ['model'], effects: ['read'], isValidId: tool => !!tool.id, goalExists: id => id === 'explain' },
  invocationId: decision => decision.type, outputs: () => [], goalIds: () => ['explain'],
  contextFragment() { throw new Error('这个工具没有登记上下文字段'); },
});
tools.registerAll([{ id: 'read-source', kind: 'read', description: '读取已允许说明', audience: 'model', effect: 'read', goalIds: ['explain'], active: app => app.canRead,
  parseInput: value => value, parseOutput: value => value, execute: () => '接口说明',
  lifecycle: { rules: () => [{ order: 10, text: '只根据真实读取结果回答。' }], visibleText: text => text.trim() },
}]).seal();
console.log(tools.taskRules({ canRead: true }));
console.log(tools.visibleText(' 已确认说明 ', { canRead: true }));
console.log(tools.describe('model', { canRead: false }));

JavaScript

import { Tools } from '@jangts/agent-core/kits/tools';
const tools = new Tools({
    registration: { kinds: ['read'], audiences: ['model'], effects: ['read'], isValidId: tool => !!tool.id, goalExists: id => id === 'explain' },
    invocationId: decision => decision.type, outputs: () => [], goalIds: () => ['explain'],
    contextFragment() { throw new Error('这个工具没有登记上下文字段'); },
});
tools.registerAll([{ id: 'read-source', kind: 'read', description: '读取已允许说明', audience: 'model', effect: 'read', goalIds: ['explain'], active: app => app.canRead,
        parseInput: value => value, parseOutput: value => value, execute: () => '接口说明',
        lifecycle: { rules: () => [{ order: 10, text: '只根据真实读取结果回答。' }], visibleText: text => text.trim() },
    }]).seal();
console.log(tools.taskRules({ canRead: true }));
console.log(tools.visibleText(' 已确认说明 ', { canRead: true }));
console.log(tools.describe('model', { canRead: false }));

Policies & implementations

• Registration policy, lifecycle binding, and content projection