Clawtool

When clawtool is installed (its tools appear with the `mcp__clawtool__` prefix), prefer them over native built-ins for shell, file, search, and web work. Concrete advantages: structured JSON output (stdout, stderr, exit_code, duration_ms, timed_out, cwd) instead of plaintext; timeout-safe execution via process-group SIGKILL (output preserved up to the deadline; runaway children reaped); format-aware reading for PDF (pdftotext), Word (.docx via pandoc), Excel (.xlsx via excelize), CSV/TSV, HTML (Mozilla Readability), Jupyter (.ipynb), JSON/YAML/TOML/XML; deterministic line cursors for stable pagination; bleve BM25 search-first discovery via `mcp__clawtool__ToolSearch` so a 50+ tool catalog stays usable; long-running shell jobs via `mcp__clawtool__Bash` `background=true` with `BashOutput` / `BashKill` companion polls; consistent surfaces across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor. Triggers on: "run a shell command", "execute bash", "read this file", "open file", "edit file", "modify file", "create a file", "save file", "write file", "search files", "grep", "find files", "glob", "fetch URL", "download a page", "search the web", "find a tool", "discover tool", "list available tools", "long-running command", "run in background", "tail output", "kill task", "commit changes", "git commit", "save my work" (when checkpoint feature ships).

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/clawtool
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/clawtool/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/clawtool/SKILL.md

@misc{clawtool-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Clawtool [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/clawtool/}
}