Tools: Register tools from btw

The btw_register_tools() function equips an ellmer chat to interface with your computational environment. Chats returned by this function have access to the tools:

Name	Group	Description
btw_tool_docs_available_vignettes	docs	List available vignettes for an R package.
btw_tool_docs_help_page	docs	Get help page from package.
btw_tool_docs_package_help_topics	docs	Get available help topics for an R package.
btw_tool_docs_vignette	docs	Get a package vignette in plain text.
btw_tool_env_describe_data_frame	env	Show the data frame or table or get information about the structure of a data frame or table.
btw_tool_env_describe_environment	env	List and describe items in an environment.
btw_tool_files_list_files	files	List files in the current working directory or in subfolders in the current project directory.
btw_tool_files_read_text_file	files	Read an entire text file.
btw_tool_ide_read_current_editor	ide	Read the contents of the editor that is currently open in the user's IDE.
btw_tool_session_package_info	session	Verify that a specific package is installed, or find out which packages are in use in the current session.
btw_tool_session_platform_info	session	Describes the R version, operating system, language and locale settings for the user's system.

Usage

btw_register_tools(chat, tools = NULL)

Arguments

chat

An ellmer Chat object.

tools

Optional names of tools or tool groups to include when registering tools. By default all btw tools are included. For example, use tools = "docs" to include only the documentation related tools, or tools = c("env", "docs", "session"), etc.

Value

Registers the tools with chat, updating the chat object in place. The chat input is returned invisibly.

See also

Other Tools: btw_tool_env_describe_data_frame(), btw_tool_env_describe_environment(), btw_tool_files_list_files(), btw_tool_files_read_text_file(), btw_tool_ide_read_current_editor(), btw_tool_package_docs, btw_tool_session_package_info(), btw_tool_session_platform_info()

Examples

# requires an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
ch <- ellmer::chat_anthropic()

btw_register_tools(ch)
} # }