System Tools
Enkaidu includes system-level tools which are controllable via session-level configuration. These tools, when enabled, affect the behaviour of Enkaidu.
System tools require you to allow them via session properties in the configuration file. Otherwise they are not enabled.
Enkaidu includes a small number of system-level tools that, when allowed / enabled, are intended to provide the models with dynamic control over how agentic work is done.
- For complex tasks, you can ask a model to use an agent to reduce the impact on the context window, especially when using small models.
- A model can also query and install tools without you having to pre-load them all the team. Caveat: tool calling models really want to call tools and the idea of installing before using a tool is not well represented in many models’ latent spaces.
| Capability | Enabled via session property | Description | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-agents | allow_sub_agents |
Run a prompt in a fresh, isolated context window and receive the result. | spawn_agent |
| Shell command execution | allow_shell_commands |
Run allowed (and optionally unconfirmed) shell commands, in the cordon when configured. | shell_command |
| Tool discovery | allow_tool_discovery |
Let models list and install tools at runtime (user-confirmed). | list_installable_tools, install_tools |
| In-memory global state | allow_global_state |
Key/value state namespaced per container, shared across sessions/turns. | get_global_state, set_global_state |