#Purpose
- Own conversion of Agent Zero tool prompt files and MCP tool metadata into OpenAI Responses API function tool definitions.
- Keep native Responses function availability synchronized with the text tool prompt surface.
#Ownership
responses_tools.py owns runtime implementation.
responses_tools.py.dox.md owns durable notes about responsibilities, prompt-derived contracts, and verification for this helper.
#Local Contracts
- Build local function tools from enabled
agent.system.tool.*.md prompt files and include vision_load when either Main native vision or the effective preset's Vision Model enables the canonical vision prompt.
- Discover local prompt files through
helpers.subagents.get_paths; this module
owns the Responses-specific prompt-name compatibility rules.
- Local prompt-derived function names use existing bullet declarations that pair a backticked name with
arg or args for multi-tool prompt files, otherwise prefer explicit "tool_name" examples, then the first prompt heading, and finally the prompt filename.
- Apply registered tool-prompt render kwargs before deriving native metadata so descriptions never expose unresolved prompt templates.
- Keep emitted schemas provider-neutral; provider-specific strictness belongs at the provider request boundary.
- Use an explicitly embedded JSON input schema when present. Infer only an unambiguous single backticked argument on an otherwise empty
args: line; all other local tools receive an honest permissive object schema instead of prose-guessed types.
- Native local-tool descriptions reuse the tool catalog's compact prompt
description; Responses retains native-name mapping, schema derivation, and
provider description limits.
- Preserve original Agent Zero tool names through the native Responses name map.
- Keep MCP tool schemas merged after local prompt-derived tools.
- Apply
helpers.tool_policy before emitting local or MCP schemas; a blocked
capability is absent from provider-native tool definitions. Vision routing
is controlled by the effective model preset rather than Agent Editor.
- Connector remote tools are advertised only when
_a0_connector runtime metadata says the matching connected CLI capability is currently available.
#Work Guidance
- Keep prompt-derived descriptions bounded by
MAX_TOOL_DESCRIPTION_CHARS.
- Treat plugin-specific tool gates as optional imports so core helper loading does not require a plugin that is absent or disabled.
#Verification
- Run targeted Responses/tool prompt tests after changing function-tool construction.
- Run connector prompt gating tests when changing remote tool availability.