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Browse the tools your agents can use

Settings → Tools is the catalog of everything an AI agent can do beyond chatting — search a knowledge base, run a read-only query, fetch a document, and more. This page is a reference: it shows you what's available and where each capability comes from.

📖WHAT IS A TOOL?

A tool is a single capability the AI can invoke during a conversation — one specific action like "search the knowledge base" or "fetch a document." Tools come from extensions, the add-ons you install. Each extension runs an MCP server (MCP is the open standard for connecting AI agents to external tools), and that server is what publishes the tools you see here.

Browse available tools​

Go to Settings → Tools. The page is a searchable list of every tool currently available in your environment, grouped by the MCP server (the extension) that provides it. For example, the RAG MCP server is marked Default because it ships with Rational AI.

Each row shows:

  • Name: the tool's identifier, for example rag_query_simple.
  • Description: a short explanation of what the tool does and when the AI would call it.
  • ⋮ menu: per-tool actions.

Use the search box at the top to filter by name or description when the list grows long.

The Tools registry grouped by MCP server

The Tools registry: every tool available to your agents, grouped by the MCP server (extension) that provides it.

The RAG MCP server alone provides several tools you'll see often:

  • rag_query_simple — simple semantic-search RAG (finds passages similar in meaning to the question).
  • rag_query_graph — graph RAG with expansion (follows links between related pieces of knowledge).
  • execute_query — runs a read-only SQL query against a knowledge base's SQLite database.
  • list_databases — lists the databases available in a knowledge base.
  • get_schema — returns the structure (tables and columns) of a database.
  • get_resource — fetches the contents of a specific document.
  • get_user_context — provides the AI with context about the current user.

Where tools come from​

Three pieces work together, and it helps to keep them straight:

  1. Extensions provide tools. Installing an extension adds its MCP server's tools to your environment. To install or remove extensions, see Manage extensions.
  2. This Tools page is where you see them. It's the full inventory of what's available, no matter which agent ends up using it.
  3. A touchpoint is where you choose them. A touchpoint is the configuration for a specific agent, and that's where you pick which of these tools the agent is actually allowed to call.
📝SEEING A TOOL ISN'T THE SAME AS USING IT

A tool appearing in this catalog means it exists in your environment, not that any agent is using it. An agent can only call a tool once you grant it in that agent's touchpoint.

Result​

You know where to find every tool your agents can use, how to tell which extension provides each one, and where to go next to actually grant a tool to an agent.