agent-tool

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MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool server for AI coding agents.

Why?

Built-in tools in AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) have known limitations:

• Tab indentation breaks: LLMs output spaces, but your project uses tabs. The built-in Edit tool writes spaces as-is, corrupting your indentation style.
• Encoding corruption: Editing EUC-KR, Shift-JIS, or GB18030 files silently converts them to UTF-8, breaking legacy projects.
• Too many separate tools: Making the agent find, install, and configure Redis CLI, MySQL client, SSH client, etc. is tedious and error-prone. agent-tool bundles 50 tools into a single binary -- one install, everything works.
• No reverse engineering support: Built-in tools can't disassemble binaries, inspect PE/ELF headers, find function boundaries, or search cross-references. agent-tool includes static binary analysis (disassembly, xref, function detection), a DAP debugger, and CheatEngine-style memory tools -- giving your agent full reverse engineering capabilities.
• Network censorship: In some countries, government-level web filtering breaks plain curl/wget requests. agent-tool uses ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) and DoH (DNS over HTTPS) by default to work around these restrictions.

agent-tool solves these by providing drop-in replacement tools that respect your project's conventions.

Supported Agents

Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Gemini CLI, and any MCP-compatible agent.

Features

Key Improvements

Smart Indentation

LLMs typically output spaces, but many projects use tabs. AgentTool auto-converts indentation to match the file's existing style.

• Reads .editorconfig for indent_style and indent_size
• Falls back to content-based detection (first 100 lines)
• Protects legacy files: won't convert if actual content contradicts .editorconfig

Encoding Preservation

Edits preserve the original file encoding instead of forcing UTF-8.

• Detection priority: .editorconfig charset → chardet auto-detection → fallback encoding
• Supported: UTF-8, UTF-8 BOM, EUC-KR, Shift-JIS, ISO-8859-1, UTF-16, and more
• Line endings: Preserves \r\n / \n as-is

Quick Start

1. Download the binary for your OS from Releases
2. Run agent-tool install (or agent-tool install claude for a specific agent)
3. Restart your IDE / agent
4. Done — all tools are available immediately with no permission popups

Or just ask your AI agent to do it for you:

"Download agent-tool from https://github.com/knewstimek/agent-tool/releases/latest and run agent-tool install"

Any capable AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) can handle the full download → install → restart flow automatically.

Recommended: Tell your agent to prefer agent-tool

After installing, agents will have access to agent-tool but may still default to built-in tools (Read, Edit, etc.). To ensure agents prefer agent-tool's encoding-aware, indentation-smart tools, add one of the instructions below.

Code navigation tip: For large projects, add this to your CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md to enable AST-based code navigation:

At the start of a session, run codegraph(op="index", path="<project_root>") to build a code index.
Then use codegraph for structural queries (find, callers, callees, methods, inherits) instead of grep.

Pick Strict or Soft:

Where to put it:

Per-project — add to your project's CLAUDE.md:

ALWAYS use agent-tool MCP tools (mcp__agent-tool__*) instead of built-in file tools.

Global (all projects) — add to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md:

ALWAYS use agent-tool MCP tools (mcp__agent-tool__*) instead of built-in file tools.

Hard enforcement — deny built-in file tools at the permission level via ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "permissions": {
    "deny": ["Read", "Edit", "MultiEdit", "Write", "Glob", "Grep"]
  }
}

This makes Claude Code's built-in file tools unavailable, so the agent is forced to use agent-tool. Recommended when you want strict enforcement without relying on prompt instructions.

1. Add to ~/.codex/config.toml (top-level, not inside [mcp_servers.*]):

model_instructions_file = "~/.codex/model_instructions.md"

1. Create ~/.codex/model_instructions.md:

ALWAYS use agent-tool MCP tools (mcp__agent-tool__*) instead of built-in file tools.

1. Restart Codex.

Per-project — add to your project's AGENTS.md instead.

Add to your project's .cursorrules, .windsurfrules, or AGENTS.md:

ALWAYS use agent-tool MCP tools (mcp__agent-tool__*) instead of built-in file tools.

Installation

Auto-install (recommended)

# Register with all detected agents (full auto-approve — all tools)
agent-tool install

# Safe mode — only auto-approve local file tools (no SSH, HTTP, DB, shell)
agent-tool install --safe-approve

# No auto-approve — manual approval required for every tool call
agent-tool install --no-auto-approve

# Register with a specific agent
agent-tool install claude
agent-tool install claude --safe-approve

# Uninstall (removes agent-tool entry only, preserves other settings)
agent-tool uninstall          # from all agents
agent-tool uninstall claude   # from specific agent

Install permission levels:

Manual setup

Claude Code / Cursor / Cline (settings.json or mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-tool": {
      "command": "/path/to/agent-tool"
    }
  }
}

Codex CLI (~/.codex/config.toml):

[mcp_servers.agent-tool]
command = "/path/to/agent-tool"

Options

# Set fallback encoding for projects with non-UTF-8 files
agent-tool --fallback-encoding EUC-KR

Environment Variable

Set AGENT_TOOL_FALLBACK_ENCODING to avoid repeating the CLI flag every session:

# Windows (no admin required)
setx AGENT_TOOL_FALLBACK_ENCODING EUC-KR

# Linux / macOS (add to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc)
export AGENT_TOOL_FALLBACK_ENCODING=EUC-KR

Priority: CLI flag > environment variable > default (UTF-8).

Runtime Configuration

Agents can change settings at runtime via set_config without restarting:

Build

go build -o agent-tool .

Cross-compile:

GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o agent-tool .
GOOS=darwin GOARCH=arm64 go build -o agent-tool .
GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -o agent-tool.exe .

Troubleshooting

Garbled text (encoding issues)

If Korean, Japanese, or other non-ASCII text appears as garbage characters:

Option 1: Add charset to your .editorconfig:

[*]
charset = euc-kr

Option 2: Set environment variable (persistent):

setx AGENT_TOOL_FALLBACK_ENCODING EUC-KR   # Windows
export AGENT_TOOL_FALLBACK_ENCODING=EUC-KR  # Linux

Option 3: CLI flag (per-session):

agent-tool --fallback-encoding EUC-KR

Built-in help for agents

agent-tool includes a agent_tool_help tool that agents can call for usage guidance. When an agent encounters encoding warnings or garbled text, it can call:

{ "tool": "agent_tool_help", "arguments": { "topic": "encoding" } }

Available topics: overview, encoding, indentation, tools, troubleshooting

Security

agent-tool provides powerful system access (SSH, MySQL, Redis, file operations, HTTP requests). When used with AI coding agents, be aware of prompt injection risks:

• SSRF Protection: Cloud metadata IPs (169.254.x.x, fe80::/10) are always blocked regardless of settings. Private IP access is configurable per protocol via set_config (allow_http_private, allow_mysql_private, allow_redis_private, allow_ssh_private)
• DLP (Data Loss Prevention): All outbound HTTP request bodies are scanned for sensitive data patterns (PEM private keys, AWS access keys, GitHub/GitLab tokens, Slack tokens, .env file dumps) and blocked before transmission
• Prompt Injection Warnings: Every private IP connection shows a security warning visible to both the user and the AI agent, helping detect prompt injection attacks from fetched web content
• Zip Slip protection: Archive entries with ../ path traversal are blocked (both zip and tar)
• Zip Bomb protection: Single file limit (1GB), total extraction limit (5GB)
• Symlinks: Skipped by default. Enable via set_config allow_symlinks=true (tar only; zip symlinks always skipped). Even when enabled, symlinks targeting outside the output directory are blocked
• File size limit: Configurable max file size (default 50MB) prevents OOM on large files. Adjustable via set_config max_file_size_mb=N
• Encoding safety: chardet uses 64KB sample (not full file) for memory efficiency

For maximum security, review the AI agent's tool calls before approving, especially for SSH commands, HTTP requests to external URLs, and database queries.

Tech Stack

• Language: Go
• MCP SDK: github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk
• Encoding: saintfish/chardet + golang.org/x/text
• Distribution: Single binary (cross-compiled)

License

MIT