TONL Tool

Overview

Provides deterministic access to the tonl CLI for working with structured data in JSON and TONL formats. Acts as a thin, faithful wrapper - all operations invoke the CLI directly without re-implementing behavior.

What is TONL

TONL (Token-Optimized Notation Language) is a compact, human‑readable data serialization format designed to minimize tokenization cost for large language models while remaining easy to parse and edit. It represents objects, arrays, and primitives with terser syntax (including optional inline tables and concise delimiters), supports schema validation and path queries, and is intended for efficient round‑trip conversion to/from JSON using the tonl CLI.

When to Use

Trigger this skill when the user requests:

• Converting JSON to TONL or TONL to JSON
• Querying structured data using path expressions
• Retrieving specific values from JSON/TONL files
• Validating TONL data against schemas
• Generating statistics about structured data (token counts, size analysis)