# Amp — Bring Your Own Tools

- Company: Amp (ampcode.com)
- Announced: 2025-08-29
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://ampcode.com/news/toolboxes
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7807-bring-your-own-tools
- Subject: Amp

Amp now allows users to provide tools to the system via executable files placed in a directory pointed to by the AMP_TOOLBOX environment variable. Amp will invoke these executables to describe themselves and execute tool calls when the agent decides to use them.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ampcode.com/news/toolboxes:

> You can now provide tools to Amp in the form of executable files.

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