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assistant-uiby assistant-ui3 months ago20

Registers LLM tools and renders custom tool-call UI in assistant-ui (@assistant-ui/react). Covers the current authoring model: a \"use generative\" file exporting defineToolkit({...}) that co-locates schema, execute, and render and is split across the client/server boundary by the build plugin (withAui from @assistant-ui/next, aui() from @assistant-ui/vite, withAui from @assistant-ui/metro), mounted with Tools({ toolkit }) through useAui and exposed to the model with AISDKToolkit. Covers the tool kinds and their execute markers: backend (plain execute), frontend (\"use client\" inside execute), human via humanTool()/hitl, provider via providerTool(), external via externalTool(), stubs via stubTool() plus useAuiToolOverrides, and MCP via defineMcpToolkit. Also covers the component-scoped path (makeAssistantTool / useAssistantTool / makeAssistantToolUI / useAssistantToolUI), ToolCallMessagePartProps (status.type running/complete/incomplete/requires-action, args, argsText, result, artifact, addResult, resume, respondToApproval), server-side approval gates via the AI SDK v7 toolApproval option, generative UI from tool results, and the v0.15 s.tools.toolUIs registry. Reach for this when tool UI is not rendering, a tool is not being called, or a result is not showing.

Install

npx skills add https://github.com/assistant-ui/skills --skill tools
Show step-by-step
  1. 1

    Open your terminal

    • Mac: Press ⌘ Space, type "Terminal", press Enter
    • Windows: Press Win R, type "cmd", press Enter
  2. 2

    Paste the command above and press Enter

    Use the Copy command button, then paste in your terminal (Mac: ⌘V, Windows: Ctrl V).

  3. 3

    Restart Claude Code

    Close and reopen Claude Code, or start a new session, so it picks up the new skill.

Where it lives
~/.claude/skills/assistant-ui--skills--assistant-ui--skills--tools/
├── SKILL.md
└── ... (skill resource files)
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