Tool Finder

This skill is coordination-exempt: skip the ai-coord gate for its declared work.

Recommend the current option that best fits the user's actual constraints, backed by fresh primary evidence.

Workflow

1. Infer the ecosystem, existing stack, must-haves, switching cost, and decision criteria from the request and repository. Ask only when an unknown would materially change the recommendation.
2. Check whether the standard library, platform, or an already-installed tool is sufficient before adding a dependency.
3. Search current authoritative sources. Read references/tool-finder.md only for the relevant ecosystem's source routing, fallback criteria, install conventions, and red flags.
4. Compare the viable options against the user's criteria. Use adoption, maintenance, security, documentation, performance, operational cost, and ecosystem fit only where they affect this decision; do not force fixed weights or a fixed number of candidates.
5. Recommend one option when the evidence supports it. State the decisive tradeoff, material red flags, and the closest alternative. Say when the evidence is too close or no external tool is justified.