Tools

Arctic exposes a curated toolset to the model. Tools are permission‑gated and can be disabled per agent.

Built‑in tools

• bash — run shell commands
• read / write / edit — file access
• list / glob / grep — file discovery and search
• webfetch — fetch URLs as text
• websearch / codesearch — web and code search (requires Arctic provider or ARCTIC_ENABLE_EXA)
• task — spawn a sub‑agent session
• todowrite / todoread — per‑session todo list
• batch — run tools in parallel

Controlling tools

Tools can be limited by:

• Agent frontmatter (tools and permission)
• Global config (tools, permission)

See Permissions.