---
id: assets.project-tools
title: Project Tools
summary: Understand the current Project Tools asset surface and its deliberately limited public behavior.
kind: reference
product_area: assets
status: stable
updated: 2026-09-07
canonical: /docs/assets/project-tools
---

# Project Tools

## Definition

Project Tools is a visible project-level Asset category intended for reusable callable capabilities. In the current product, the page presents an empty state and does not expose creation, editing, versioning, permissions, activation, or execution controls.

> Current capability boundary
>
> Do not document a Project Tool lifecycle or claim that a Harness can select a Project Tool merely because the tab exists. No durable public workflow is exposed on the current page.

Harness source and dependencies remain in Harnesses. Connected knowledge remains in Reference Materials. Static Case inputs and materials remain governed by Project Input Schema and the Case.

## Fields, states, or lifecycle rules

There are currently no public fields, durable states, or lifecycle actions on this page. The absence of controls is itself the verified boundary.

## What to use today

Keep candidate-specific code and declared dependencies inside the Harness bundle. Use Workspace Secrets for credentials granted to the exact Harness, Reference Materials for connected knowledge, and Project Input Schema for Case inputs and materials. Do not relabel those objects as Project Tools because their ownership and evidence boundaries differ.

The empty state does not provide a Project Tool ID, activation action, persistence contract, or Harness-selection control.

{% related-card-grid title="Available alternatives" %}
- [Manage Harnesses](/docs/assets/harnesses)
- [Configure Reference Materials](/docs/agent-setup/reference-materials)
- [Configure Project Input Schema](/docs/project-settings/input-schema)
{% /related-card-grid %}

## Related task pages

{% related-card-grid title="Related task pages" %}
- [Manage Harnesses](/docs/assets/harnesses)
- [Configure Reference Materials](/docs/agent-setup/reference-materials)
{% /related-card-grid %}

## Source confidence

Code-backed: the Assets layout exposes the Project Tools tab and its current route renders “No Project Tools yet.” No additional public behavior is claimed.