A Tool performs a saved workflow that you can use again with different input. It might summarize a document, transform text, save a result, search project knowledge, call a connected service, or run a local script.
Some Tools use AI and need an AI connection. Others perform their actions without an AI model.
Choose a Tool or create one
Open Tools from the main command bar.
Use Add from Library to choose an existing Tool. The library includes bundled Tools as well as Tools you create or import. Adding one places it in the open project; you can then configure and run it.
Use + New Tool to describe a workflow in a conversation. Review and approve the proposal before it is saved. Creating a Tool adds it to the library; it does not automatically place it on the Tools page.
See Creating Tools and Deploying Tools.
Understand a deployment
A deployment is a placement of a Tool where you can use it: the Tools page, Ribbon, Power Strip, a project folder, or a project-file action.
Each placement can have its own input, supporting references, settings, AI model, and triggers. Changing one placement's settings does not change another's.
The reusable workflow is shared. A change to that workflow affects future runs wherever it is used.
Give a Tool the right input
On the Tools page, select a deployment and use Documents or folders for the work to process.
For an AI Tool, Optional guidance supplies supporting files such as a style guide or instructions. A Tool without an AI step warns and continues without using those references.
Use Save New Files To when the Tool offers a configurable destination. See Context and Input.
Connect several Tools
A Tool runs its saved actions in a fixed order. Use an automation to connect several Tools, choose paths with rules, bring results together, or process a list of items.
See Automations Overview.
Choose how to review a run
Autonomous mode runs without approval pauses. Guided mode can ask for approval after AI actions when the surface supports it.
Power Strip and automatic triggers confirm interaction requests automatically. Use the desktop Tools page when you need to review a result before continuing.
ThinkForge MCP does not currently list or run user-created Tools. For current constraints, see Tool limits.