basic-open-agent-tools 0.13.6

An open foundational toolkit providing essential components for building AI agents with minimal dependencies for local (non-HTTP/API) actions.

basic-open-agent-tools

An open foundational toolkit providing essential components for building AI agents with minimal dependencies for local (non-HTTP/API) actions.

🆕 What's New in v0.13.6

💬 Enhanced Confirmation Previews: Confirmation dialogs now show meaningful previews of new content being created instead of just old file sizes

📊 Better User Feedback: File writes show content previews, CSV writes show row/column counts with sample data, archive operations show file lists

🎯 Comprehensive Coverage: All 22 confirmation operations now provide context-aware previews for better decision making

Previous Release (v0.13.3)

🔍 Structured Logging: Migrated 157 print statements to Python logging framework with BOAT_LOG_LEVEL environment variable control

🛡️ Enhanced Error Handling: Replaced all assert statements with explicit type checking and descriptive error messages

🧹 Code Quality: Improved type safety and debugging with proper exception raising patterns

Previous Release (v0.13.2)

🎛️ Enhanced Confirmation System: Hybrid confirmation mode intelligently adapts to execution context (agent vs interactive vs bypass)

🤖 Agent-Aware Operations: File operations now raise structured CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED errors that LLM agents can interpret and act on

✅ Smart Defaults: skip_confirm=False safely handles both human interactions (prompts) and agent workflows (structured errors)

🔧 Test Coverage: Comprehensive test suite (27 tests) for confirmation system with 100% coverage

Previous Release (v0.13.1)

🔀 Module Migration: Code analysis, git tools, profiling, and static analysis modules (39 functions) migrated to coding-open-agent-tools

🎯 Refocused Scope: 151 foundational functions across 20 modules

📦 Sibling Package: For coding-specific tools, see coding-open-agent-tools

Installation

pip install basic-open-agent-tools

Or with UV:

uv add basic-open-agent-tools

Optional Dependencies

# All features
pip install basic-open-agent-tools[all]

# Specific features
pip install basic-open-agent-tools[system]      # Process management, system info
pip install basic-open-agent-tools[pdf]         # PDF reading and creation
pip install basic-open-agent-tools[xml]         # XML parsing and validation
pip install basic-open-agent-tools[word]        # Word document operations
pip install basic-open-agent-tools[excel]       # Excel spreadsheet operations
pip install basic-open-agent-tools[powerpoint]  # PowerPoint presentations
pip install basic-open-agent-tools[image]       # Image processing

Quick Start

import basic_open_agent_tools as boat

# Load all tools
all_tools = boat.load_all_tools()  # 151 functions

# Or load specific categories
fs_tools = boat.load_all_filesystem_tools()
text_tools = boat.load_all_text_tools()
data_tools = boat.load_all_data_tools()

# Merge selected categories
custom_tools = boat.merge_tool_lists(fs_tools, text_tools, data_tools)

# Use with any agent framework
from google.adk.agents import Agent
agent = Agent(tools=all_tools)

Available Modules (20 total, 151 functions)

Core Operations

• file_system (18 functions) - File and directory operations
• text (10 functions) - Text processing and formatting
• data (23 functions) - JSON, CSV, YAML, TOML, INI processing
• datetime (40 functions) - Date/time operations and calculations

Document Processing

• pdf (8 functions) - PDF reading, creation, manipulation
• word - Word document operations
• excel - Excel spreadsheet operations
• powerpoint - PowerPoint presentations
• markdown - Markdown processing
• html - HTML processing
• xml - XML parsing and validation

System & Network

• system (19 functions) - Shell commands, process management, system info
• network (4 functions) - HTTP client, DNS, port checking
• utilities (8 functions) - Debugging, timing, code validation

Security & Data

• crypto (14 functions) - Hashing, encoding, random generation
• archive (9 functions) - ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ compression

Utilities

• logging (5 functions) - Structured logging and rotation
• todo - Task management
• diagrams - Diagram generation
• image - Image processing

Key Features

✨ Agent-Friendly: Simplified type signatures prevent "signature too complex" errors

🚀 Minimal Dependencies: Pure Python core with optional dependencies only when needed

🔧 Modular: Load only what you need

🤝 Multi-Framework: Works with Google ADK, LangChain, Strands Agents, custom frameworks

🔍 Enhanced Feedback: Detailed operation confirmations with skip_confirm safety parameter

Safety Features

Smart Confirmation System (3 Modes)

All write/delete operations include a skip_confirm parameter with intelligent confirmation handling:

🔄 Bypass Mode - skip_confirm=True or BYPASS_TOOL_CONSENT=true env var

• Proceeds immediately without prompts
• Perfect for CI/CD and automation

💬 Interactive Mode - Terminal with skip_confirm=False

• Prompts user with y/n confirmation
• Shows preview info (file sizes, etc.)

🤖 Agent Mode - Non-TTY with skip_confirm=False

• Raises CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED error with instructions
• LLM agents can ask user and retry with skip_confirm=True

# Safe by default - adapts to context
result = boat.file_system.write_file_from_string(
    file_path="/tmp/example.txt",
    content="Hello, World!",
    skip_confirm=False  # Interactive prompt OR agent error
)

# Explicit overwrite
result = boat.file_system.write_file_from_string(
    file_path="/tmp/example.txt",
    content="Updated content",
    skip_confirm=True  # Bypasses all confirmations
)

# Automation mode
import os
os.environ['BYPASS_TOOL_CONSENT'] = 'true'
# All confirmations bypassed for CI/CD

Documentation

• Getting Started - Installation and setup
• API Reference - Complete function reference
• Examples - Usage examples and patterns
• FAQ - Troubleshooting and common questions
• Contributing - Development guidelines
• Changelog - Version history

Helper Functions

import basic_open_agent_tools as boat

# Category loaders
boat.load_all_filesystem_tools()
boat.load_all_text_tools()
boat.load_all_data_tools()
boat.load_all_datetime_tools()
boat.load_all_network_tools()
boat.load_all_utilities_tools()
boat.load_all_system_tools()
boat.load_all_crypto_tools()
boat.load_all_pdf_tools()
boat.load_all_archive_tools()
boat.load_all_logging_tools()
boat.load_all_diagrams_tools()
boat.load_all_excel_tools()
boat.load_all_html_tools()
boat.load_all_image_tools()
boat.load_all_markdown_tools()
boat.load_all_powerpoint_tools()
boat.load_all_todo_tools()
boat.load_all_word_tools()
boat.load_all_xml_tools()

# Specialized data loaders
boat.load_data_config_tools()  # YAML, TOML, INI
boat.load_data_csv_tools()     # CSV operations
boat.load_data_json_tools()    # JSON operations
boat.load_data_validation_tools()  # Data validation

# Utility functions
boat.merge_tool_lists(*tool_lists)  # Merge and deduplicate
boat.list_all_available_tools()     # List all tool names
boat.get_tool_info(tool_name)       # Get tool metadata

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See our Contributing Guide for development setup, coding standards, and pull request process.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.