Built-in Tools

Overview

Decopilot provides built-in tools that are always available (subject to task/subtask restrictions). These tools enable work management, context access, and agent coordination.

Tool Categories

Discovery & Enablement

• enable_tool — Activate one or more scope tools so they can be called in subsequent steps

Task Management

• subtask — Spawn a subtask with isolated context, optionally bound to a specific agent

User Interaction

• user_ask — Ask the user a question when input or clarification is needed

Context Access

• read_resource — Read documentation or guidelines from the current scope
• read_prompt — Read a reusable prompt template

Working with Tool Output

• read_tool_output — Re-read a large tool result that was offloaded to storage

Research and Media

These tools are registered conditionally based on the organization’s configured default models:

• web_search — Stream a deep web-research pass (requires a web-research model)
• generate_image — Generate an image (requires an image model)

Planning

• propose_plan — Propose a plan for approval. Only registered when chat mode is plan .

Sandbox (VM) tools

When an agent is backed by a sandbox (a linked GitHub repo), decopilot also exposes six VM tools — bash , read , write , edit , grep , glob — that operate inside that sandbox. They’re provisioned lazily on first use.

Availability Matrix