How I built deferred tool discovery for my desktop AI assistant (no embeddings needed)

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Ankita's tool catalogue covers web search/fetch/scrape, Git, filesystem, process management, scheduling, page watches, GitHub notifications, project memory, MCP servers, image generation, voice… Each tool is one ESM module under tools/, exporting name, description, parameters, and run(). Tools cover capabilities; skills cover procedures. The skill tool loads one by name and returns the body, capped at 8000 characters: return renderSkill(found); // "# Skill: commit-review\n... ---\n" + body, capped Suggested tools are hints only — the skill never forces a tool call.

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