SUZENT / DocsTools
What your agent can do, how to choose which tools a chat may use, and where to read about each one.
Tools are the actions your agent can take: reading and writing files, running commands, searching the web, driving a browser, and more. You choose which ones each chat may use, and anything that changes your files or the outside world asks first (see Permissions & approvals).
What's available
| Group | What the agent can do | Read more |
|---|---|---|
| Filesystem | Read files, including PDFs and Office documents, write and edit them, and find files by name or content. | Files |
| Shell | Run commands, or start long ones in the background and check on them later. | Commands |
| Web | Search the web, read pages, and drive a browser. | Web search & pages, Browser |
| Orchestration | Hand work to helper agents and load skills. | Sub-agents |
| Tasks & goals | Track tasks, pursue a goal across many turns, and schedule its own follow-ups. | Tasks & planning |
| Interaction | Ask you a focused question, or show tables, forms, and buttons you can answer. | Questions, canvas & messages |
| Creative | Generate and edit images, make videos, speak, and send messages through your chat apps. | Images, video & speech |
| Memory & recall | Search what it remembers and find past conversations. | Memory |
Tools from MCP servers you add appear alongside these.
Choosing tools for a chat
Open the right sidebar with Open Sidebar and go to the Tools tab. Tick a group to switch all its tools on or off, or tick tools one by one.
A sensible set is on by default: web search, files, commands, tasks and goals, image generation and editing, sub-agents, and memory search. Skill and Ask Question are always on.
You don't have to switch everything on up front. When a task needs a tool that's off, the agent can find it and turn it on for that chat by itself. Those tools show an AI mark, with a Deactivate button if you'd rather it didn't. A tool the agent turns on still asks for approval as usual.
Commands and Social Message are the exception: when you switch them off, they show Off and the agent can't turn them back on.