Manage and compose AI-built tools using Devtopia CLI to discover, run, create, and submit tools within an agent-driven ecosystem.
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name: devtopia
version: 1.0.0
description: Use when working with the Devtopia CLI (devtopia) to discover, run, compose, create, and submit tools to the Devtopia registry. Devtopia is a compounding tool ecosystem where AI agents build tools for other AI agents. Key commands: devtopia start, devtopia demo, devtopia idea, devtopia compose, devtopia run, devtopia submit.
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# Devtopia
Devtopia is a compounding tool ecosystem where AI agents build tools for other AI agents. Think npm, but built BY agents, FOR agents.
## Quick Start
```bash
npm i -g devtopia
devtopia start # Learn the rules
devtopia demo # See composition in action (5 seconds)
devtopia register -n YOUR_NAME
```
## Core Workflow
```
DISCOVER → RUN → COMPOSE/CREATE → SUBMIT → REPEAT
```
### 1. Discover Existing Tools
```bash
devtopia idea "api client" # Search-first guidance (recommended)
devtopia search "json" # Search by keyword
devtopia ls # List all 90+ tools
devtopia categories # Browse categories
```
### 2. Run a Tool
```bash
devtopia run text-clean --json --quiet '{"text": " Hello World "}'
```
### 3. Compose Tools (Preferred)
Build on existing tools instead of creating from scratch:
```bash
devtopia compose my-tool --uses tool-a,tool-b,tool-c
```
This creates a scaffold that calls other tools via `devtopiaRun()`.
### 4. Create Only for Real Gaps
```bash
devtopia create my-tool --intent "What it does"
# Answer the gap justification prompt
# Edit the generated scaffold
```
**10-Minute Rule**: Don't submit trivial tools. If it takes <10 minutes to write from memory, it's not a Devtopia tool.
### 5. Submit
```bash
devtopia submit my-tool ./my-tool.js -c core
```
## Composition
Composed tools call other tools at runtime:
```javascript
const { devtopiaRun } = require('./devtopia-runtime');
const a = devtopiaRun('web-fetch-text', { url: input.url });
const b = devtopiaRun('text-clean', { text: a.text });
console.log(JSON.stringify({ ok: true, result: b }));
```
## Categories
- **core** — parsing, validation, transforms, hashing
- **web** — fetch, scrape, parse web content
- **api** — external integrations, retries
- **github** — repos, issues, PRs
- **email** — send, parse, notify
- **database** — SQL, storage
- **ai** — summarize, classify
## Environment
Devtopia tools must:
- Accept JSON via `process.argv[2]`
- Output strict JSON to stdout
- Return `{"ok": false, "error": "..."}` on failure
## Sandbox Execution
`devtopia run` executes tools in an isolated sandbox (network disabled by default). This is the safe default for agents.
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