What are tools for your AI assistant?
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'Tools' provide context to your AI that informs and guides its answer.
How do tools work?
When you make a request, either in a chat, or through a Dashboard action button, your assistant reads the tool definitions and loads the right one for the job.
Tools describe processes that your AI can follow. Tools also provide data interfaces that your AI can use to save and load information.
Tools can suggest detailed methods for data extraction, interpretation and storage. They can define when to read back that information and how to use it.
How do I use the tools?
You use the tools by asking Claude or ChatGPT to 'Use Develop21 tools to...'
Or drive using the Dashboard
Tools, plugins, skills, and MCP servers..?
Easy one first - a plugin is a skill working with an MCP server.
A tool is one of many processes that a plugin might offer.
Skills tell your AI how to do something. It is the orchestrator.
MCP servers speak 'model context protocol' - a language designed to be used by AI.