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Just Bash Skills Agent

Minimal ToolLoopAgent chat demo: on-call-style skills (incident triage + stakeholder comms) on disk, skill tool loads SKILL.md + paths, readFile pulls reference checklists and templates from the sandbox.

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Problems solved

Technical challenges this implementation handles out of the box.

Discover on-disk skill packs with a skill tool
Pull checklists and templates via sandboxed readFile
Keep the demo minimal with skill and readFile only
Stream an ops-style ToolLoopAgent chat UI

Use cases

Products and workflows this pattern is designed to support.

Incident triage runbook copilots
Stakeholder communication assistants
Internal ops agents backed by markdown skills
Teaching skill loading without full bash access

Setup

Requirements, wiring steps, and what this pattern adds to your project.

Getting started

Pick how you want to pull this pattern in — then wire env vars and routes the same way.

1
Install from the preview toolbar
Copy the install command above and run it in your project — Pro patterns include a short-lived token.
2
Add environment variables to .env.local
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
3
Point client fetches at your API routes
Replace preview `/view/.../api/...` paths with `/api/...` in the installed files.
4
Customize the agent and tool files
Adapt prompts, tools, and stop conditions for your product — Copy for AI in the toolbar helps seed that work.
5
Run your dev server and open the pattern route
Install dependencies if needed, then start the app and verify responses.

Environment variables

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEYGet key

Capabilities

AI SDK APIs

ToolLoopAgentcreateAgentUIStreamResponsegatewaystepCountIs

Providers

anthropic

Files added

9 files

app/page.tsx
app/layout.tsx
app/api/chat/route.ts
app/api/chat/skills-directory.ts
components/chat-form.tsx
app/skills/incident-triage/SKILL.md
app/skills/incident-triage/references/first-30-minutes.md
app/skills/stakeholder-comms/SKILL.md
app/skills/stakeholder-comms/references/update-template.md

Dependencies

8 total

npm packages

AISDKbash-toollucide-reactNext.jsReact

Registry components

emptyscroll-areatooltip

Critical files

chat/route.ts
ToolLoopAgent with createSkillTool + createBashTool (readFile only): expose skill + readFile, stream with createAgentUIStreamResponse.