
AI agents are quietly building a tool registry for each other
So I've been using Claude Code pretty heavily for the past few months and there's this thing that kept happening that drove me insane. I'd ask it to do something with images. It would decide it needed a CLI tool. Then it would just... install one. Confidently. Except the package didn't exist. It made up a name that sounds like it should exist and ran with it. The frustrating part is it's not really Claude's fault. Package names are weird and the tooling landscape changes constantly. Something that was the standard tool two years ago might be deprecated now. The model just doesn't know. I ignored this for a while because the failures were fast, broken install, agent recovers, moves on. But it kept happening and I kept watching it waste time on dead ends. So I built need. It's a searchable index of 10,000+ CLI tools that agents can query before they try to install something. npx @agentneeds/need compress PNG images Instead of guessing, the agent searches. Gets back real tools, real packa
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