tool-usage-policy

Standardize tool usage by assigning specific tools to each operation: Glob for file discovery, Grep for content search, Read for file reading, Edit for modifications, and Write for new files. This prevents permission prompts, ensures consistent results, and enables safe parallel execution of independent tasks.

Follow defined tool rules for each operation type. Using approved tools—Glob, Grep, Read, Edit, Write—in their designated roles eliminates permission friction and ensures autonomous execution without interruptions.

Yes. The policy specifies parallelization rules that allow safe concurrent execution of independent file discovery, search, and analysis tasks, with explicit error-handling expectations to prevent conflicts.

Use Grep with globbing patterns to search content across file sets. For example, `Grep: "TODO" --glob "*.go" -i` searches case-insensitively for TODO across all Go files, combining discovery and search in one operation.

Use Glob for file discovery. It identifies files matching your criteria before passing them to other tools like Grep for searching or Read for content extraction, ensuring consistent and efficient workflow automation.

Standardized tool selection prevents confusion, reduces friction from permission prompts, and enables predictable results. Assigning the right tool to each task—discovery, search, read, edit, write—makes workflows autonomous and parallelizable.