Tools — AiHummer Docs

Tools are how an agent acts on the world — fetching a page, searching, sending mail, querying a database, generating a document. AiHummer ships a rich built-in catalog and a Tool Runtime that enables tools when they are configured, reloads them without a restart, gates the risky ones behind human approval, and can lock egress entirely in air-gapped mode.

This page covers how the runtime behaves and lists the built-ins. For the full reference, see the tools catalog.

How the Tool Runtime behaves

Enable-on-config. A tool becomes available only when its prerequisite configuration is present — usually an environment variable pointing at the service it needs. No config, no tool.
Hot reload. Tool enablement applies hot, without restarting the gateway, so you can turn capabilities on and off at runtime.
Approval gate. Risky tools can be placed behind a human-in-the-loop approval gate via AIHUMMER_APPROVAL_TOOLS. A rejected call is not executed.
Air-gapped mode. Setting AIHUMMER_AIRGAPPED=1 blocks model-controlled public egress, for sovereign or isolated deployments.

[!WARNING] code_exec is off by default on shared hosts. Enable it only where the sandbox and host are acceptable for running model-authored code, and consider putting it behind the approval gate.

Built-in tools

Tool	What it does	Enable with
`web_fetch`	Fetch a URL (SSRF-guarded)	on by default
`http_request`	Make an HTTP request (SSRF-guarded)	on by default
`web_search`	Web search via SearXNG	`SEARXNG_URL`
`browser`	Drive a real browser over CDP	`CLOAKBROWSER_CDP_URL`
`computer`	Computer-use over CDP	`CLOAKBROWSER_CDP_URL`
`filesystem_read`	Read files in a sandboxed root	`AIHUMMER_FS_ROOT`
`db_query`	Read-only database query	`AIHUMMER_DB_QUERY_DSN`
`mail`	Send/receive mail (SMTP/IMAP)	mail credentials (vault)
`code_exec`	Run code in a sandbox (off by default on shared hosts)	`AIHUMMER_CODE_EXEC`
`doc_generate`	Generate CSV/TSV/XLSX documents	on by default
`tts`	Text-to-speech	TTS sidecar
`image_generate` / `edit_image`	Generate and edit images	configured image backend
`github_get_file`	Fetch a file from GitHub	on by default
`generate_pairing_code`	Issue a device pairing code	on by default
`search_knowledge` / `deep_research`	Knowledge retrieval and multi-step research	knowledge base
Bitrix24 CRM / task / calendar	Bitrix24 CRM, task and calendar actions	Bitrix24 plugin
1C (БИТ.ФИНАНС OData)	1C БИТ.ФИНАНС access over OData	1C OData config

[!NOTE] web_fetch and http_request are SSRF-guarded — they refuse requests to internal addresses and other unsafe targets, so a model cannot use them to reach your private network.

Shared skills

A skill is a reusable instruction (a prompt fragment) that can be attached to agents. The library lives on the admin UI’s “Shared skills” page: to create one, a name and the text are enough — the identifier (slug) is derived automatically. Skills shipped by the vendor out of the box carry an “Out of the box” badge; they can be disabled but stay listed. Attached skills are rendered into the stable prefix of the agent’s system prompt.

Enabling tools

Most tools turn on when you provide their configuration. Common switches:

SEARXNG_URL=http://localhost:8888          # web_search
CLOAKBROWSER_CDP_URL=http://localhost:9222 # browser + computer
AIHUMMER_FS_ROOT=/srv/agent-files          # filesystem_read (sandboxed root)
AIHUMMER_DB_QUERY_DSN=postgres://...        # db_query (read-only)
AIHUMMER_CODE_EXEC=1                         # code_exec (sandboxed)
AIHUMMER_APPROVAL_TOOLS=mail,code_exec       # require approval for these tools
AIHUMMER_AIRGAPPED=1                          # block model-controlled public egress

[!TIP] Use AIHUMMER_APPROVAL_TOOLS to require approval for anything with a side effect — sending mail, running code — while leaving read-only tools ungated.

Where to next

See the full per-tool reference in the tools catalog.
Understand the loop that calls these tools in Orchestration & sub-agents.
Ground tool answers in your documents with Knowledge / RAG.