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Tool Call Strategy

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Use when an agent is making too many tool calls, when context is filling from verbose tool outputs, when the same operation could be a script instead of N individual calls, or when designing a tool-use protocol for a new agent or harness. Covers the three costs of every call (token, latency, context pollution), the script-vs-call decision gate, tool-selection decision trees (file-search vs content-search vs targeted-read vs full-read), call batching and parallelization, redundancy avoidance, the poka-yoke principle, subagent delegation for context protection, and cost-benchmark heuristics by task type. Do NOT use for prompt wording (use `prompt-craft`), broader context stack design across the five layers (use `context-engineering`), runtime tool failures or production debugging (use `debugging`), or behaviour-preserving refactor mechanics (use `refactor`).

What this skill does

Tool Call Strategy is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the content-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/tool-call-strategy/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when an agent is making too many tool calls, when context is filling from verbose tool outputs, when the same operation could be a script instead of N individual calls, or when designing a tool-use protocol for a new agent or harness. Covers the three costs of every call (token, latency, context pollution), the script-vs-call decision gate, tool-selection decision trees (file-search vs content-search vs targeted-read vs full-read), call batching and parallelization, redundancy avoidance, the poka-yoke principle, subagent delegation for context protection, and cost-benchmark heuristics by task type.

Who uses this skill

The Tool Call Strategy Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/tool-call-strategy/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/tool-call-strategy/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\tool-call-strategy\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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