# Build Tool Lifecycle Interfaces for React

Agent applications need clear feedback for tool calls, approvals, and results. This skill provides React patterns for presenting each lifecycle state consistently.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add inferen-sh/tools-ui
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: inferen-sh-tools-ui
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 70241748d1c7b21be230a93d68672b557575bb58ce55af7495bb445fa192d229
- Author: inferen-sh
- GitHub username: inferen-sh
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/inferen-sh/skills/tree/main/ui/tools-ui/
- Ref: 4121de961d1b6f2ffca856260e239505c302452c
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network
- Quality score: 78
- Quality tier: bronze
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/inferen-sh-tools-ui
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/inferen-sh-tools-ui/manifest

## Capabilities

- Render pending, running, approval, success, and error states for tool calls.
- Display tool names, arguments, status, and returned results.
- Add approval and denial callbacks for sensitive actions.
- Select familiar icons automatically from tool-name patterns.
- Compose ToolCall, ToolResult, and ToolApproval into one conditional display.
- Configure an Agent component with tool schemas and approval requirements.

## Use Cases

- Show Agent Activity: Present active tool names, arguments, progress, and outcomes inside a React agent interface.
- Add Human Approval: Require explicit approval before email, deletion, or other sensitive tools execute.
- Standardize Tool Results: Create consistent status and result views across multiple agent tools and workflows.

## Prompt Templates

### Render a Tool Call

```
Create a React example that renders a running search_web call with ToolCall. Show the required import and props.
```

### Handle Lifecycle Views

```
Build a ToolDisplay component that switches among approval, result, and active call views using the documented status and result fields.
```

### Gate a Sensitive Tool

```
Add ToolApproval for send_email with approve and deny callbacks. Keep execution separate until the user confirms.
```

### Design a Complete Agent Interface

```
Design a Next.js tool interface with custom styling, automatic icons, approval gates, and consistent pending, running, success, and error states.
```

## Limitations

- Provides usage patterns, not the underlying component source code.
- Requires a compatible React or Next.js project and external component installation.
- Does not implement tool execution, authentication, authorization, or server-side approval enforcement.
- Examples use abbreviated result data and require production error and accessibility handling.

## Best Practices

- Enforce approval on the server even when the interface also presents approval controls.
- Map every tool state to a stable visual treatment and accessible status message.
- Review remote registry changes and pin installation dependencies before adopting generated components.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not execute sensitive tools when the interface only appears to request approval.
- Do not expose secrets or unrestricted payloads in tool arguments and results.
- Do not treat a success status as proof that returned data is valid.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-08-06T11:17:17.277\+00:00
- Summary: Most static findings are Markdown fences, inline identifiers, images, or documentation links rather than execution primitives. Unpinned npx commands and a mutable remote component registry create supply-chain exposure. No prompt injection or hidden exfiltration intent was found.

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