Tool Discovery Python Packages

install-manifest

Reference CLI for the install-manifest spec — scaffold, validate, lint, and diff install manifests. Supports manifest_version 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.3.1, and 0.4.

sift-tools

Give LLM agents 2 meta-tools instead of a 30k-token tool catalog - hierarchical, search-first tool discovery with an active tool request, hybrid retrieval, response filtering and code mode. Works with OpenAI/Anthropic/LangChain/MCP. pip install sift-tools

semantic-tool-router

Runtime semantic discovery for agent tools

tool-compass

Semantic MCP tool-discovery gateway — find tools by intent, not memory. Hybrid semantic+lexical search, stdio + remote HTTP backends, full-schema describe(), per-tool timeouts & allow/deny. Install via npx, pip, or Docker.