Cyclium.Tool behaviour (Cyclium v0.1.15)

Behaviour for tool implementations. Tools are provided by the consuming app and wrapped by ToolExec.

Minimal implementation

defmodule MyApp.Tools.ERP do
  use Cyclium.Tool

  def call(:read_po, args, _ctx), do: {:ok, fetch_po(args["po_id"])}
end

use Cyclium.Tool provides sensible defaults for all optional callbacks. Override any of them as needed.

Summary

Callbacks

cache_scope(args)

cache_ttl()

call(action, args, ctx)

redact(args)

redact_result(result)

side_effect?()

tool_signature()

Optional self-description of the tool — its name, side_effect class, constraints, and actions (each with name/description/args) — in the same shape as an allowed_tool_signatures entry. Lets actors introspect tools generically (e.g. to build native tool schemas, or to validate that a tool an actor allows actually exists) instead of re-declaring every signature by hand.

Callbacks

cache_scope(args)

@callback cache_scope(args :: map()) :: binary()

cache_ttl()

@callback cache_ttl() :: non_neg_integer() | :no_cache

call(action, args, ctx)

@callback call(action :: atom(), args :: map(), ctx :: map()) ::
  {:ok, result :: term()} | {:error, reason :: term()}

redact(args)

@callback redact(args :: map()) :: map()

redact_result(result)

@callback redact_result(result :: term()) :: term()

side_effect?()

@callback side_effect?() :: boolean()

tool_signature()

@callback tool_signature() :: map() | nil

Optional self-description of the tool — its name, side_effect class, constraints, and actions (each with name/description/args) — in the same shape as an allowed_tool_signatures entry. Lets actors introspect tools generically (e.g. to build native tool schemas, or to validate that a tool an actor allows actually exists) instead of re-declaring every signature by hand.

Defaults to nil ("not declared") via use Cyclium.Tool, so it is opt-in per tool: introspection stays generic (MyTool.tool_signature() is always callable) without forcing every existing tool to declare one.