tool-use-patterns

What problem does it solve?

Coordinating Claude's tool usage across multiple tools can be error-prone and tedious; this Skill provides repeatable patterns to orchestrate sequential and parallel tool calls, manage results, and propagate information through agent loops.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Sequential tool execution: Run tools in a defined order and handle intermediate results.
• Parallel tool calls: Dispatch multiple tools concurrently and merge outcomes.
• Error handling & recovery: Detect failures and apply safe fallbacks without breaking the workflow.
• Agentic loops: Iterate through tool interactions until a stop condition is met for complex tasks.
• Use Case: Build a data-gathering agent that queries several services, aggregates results, and makes a decision.

Quick Start

Examine a scenario in which Claude orchestrates two tools: one fetches data and another processes it, then returns the combined result to the user.