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tools

assistant-uiby assistant-ui2 months ago15

Registers LLM tools and renders custom tool-call UI in assistant-ui (@assistant-ui/react). Use when adding frontend-only tools with makeAssistantTool / useAssistantTool (browser actions like clipboard, navigation, localStorage, async-generator streaming, AbortSignal), rendering backend AI SDK tool() calls with makeAssistantToolUI / useAssistantToolUI (status.type running/complete/incomplete/requires-action, args, result, artifact via ToolCallMessagePartProps), building generative UI from tool results, or implementing human-in-the-loop and approval flows (addResult, resume with context.human(), respondToApproval for server-side needsApproval gates). Covers registering tool components inside AssistantRuntimeProvider and the case-sensitive toolName matching that connects a tool to its UI. 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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