Agent Tools

Specific functions the AI agent can use to help you, such as searching knowledge bases, generating images, saving documents, or searching the web.

Search Documents
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Search saved documents by title or contents.

This tool searches your saved documents' content using a combination of keywords and content to find the most relevant results.

Ask Perplexity
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Make a call to Perplexity Sonar to get a well-researched answer.

This tool uses Perplexity AI Sonar to perform comprehensive web searches with synthesized, researched answers. Unlike simple search engines, Perplexity provides cited sources and contextual understanding. Best for research questions, current events, fact-checking, and queries requiring authoritative sources. Responses include citations and contextual analysis.

OpenLibrary Search
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Search the OpenLibrary database for books and authors.

This tool searches the Internet Archive OpenLibrary database for books, authors, and works. Returns comprehensive book metadata including title, author, publication year, ISBN, edition count, and availability information. Best for finding books by title, author, or subject. OpenLibrary contains millions of books from libraries around the world.

OpenAlex Search
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Search scholarly works, authors, and institutions from OpenAlex.

This tool searches OpenAlex, a fully open catalog of 240M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, and topics. Returns comprehensive academic metadata including citations, open access status, author affiliations, publication venues, and subject classifications. Best for finding research papers, tracking citations, discovering authors and institutions, and analyzing academic trends. Supports advanced filtering by publication year, citation count, open access status, and more.

Save Document
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Save a document to the user library.

This tool saves a new document to your library, including a generated title and markdown content, for easy retrieval later.

Get Document
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Retrieve a specific document by ID.

This tool fetches a single document from your library using its ID, returning the title, description, content, and metadata for direct access to specific documents.

Edit Document
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Edit an existing document with targeted operations.

This tool edits an existing document in your library. Supports full content replacement, targeted section replacement (by heading), appending content, and find/replace operations. Changes are saved immediately and the document is updated in real-time.

Manage Folder
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Create or update folders for organizing documents and conversations.

This tool allows the AI to create new folders or update existing folder properties including name, description, and instructions. Folder instructions guide AI behavior for all conversations within that folder. Instructions are screened for safety.

Get Conversation
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Retrieve or analyze a previous conversation.

This tool retrieves conversations by ID and provides flexible access to conversation data. You can get the full conversation history, generate a summary, or ask specific questions about the conversation content.

Search Conversations
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Search across conversations by title or message content.

This tool searches your conversation history using full-text search. You can search by conversation title/description, message content, or both. Returns matching conversations with metadata and message snippets. Use get_conversation with a conversation nanoid to retrieve more information.

Phone a Friend
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Call another TT agent to perform a task.

This tool allows your TeamTeacher agent to make a request to another TeamTeacher agent.

Search Subagent
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Delegate search tasks to a specialized research assistant.

This tool delegates research and search tasks to a specialized subagent with access to multiple search tools (OpenAlex, OpenLibrary, Web Search, Perplexity). Useful for complex research queries that benefit from using multiple search sources or when you want a specialized research assistant to handle the search comprehensively. The subagent can orchestrate multiple tool calls and synthesize findings across academic, web, and book searches.

Knowledge Base Subagent
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Delegate curriculum research to a specialized curriculum expert.

This tool delegates curriculum and educational standards queries to a specialized subagent with access to multiple educational knowledge bases (IB Diploma Programme (DP), IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), state standards). Useful for cross-curriculum comparisons, comprehensive curriculum research, or when you need deep expertise across multiple educational frameworks. The subagent can search multiple knowledge bases systematically and provide well-cited, synthesized responses.

Search the Web
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Search the web for current information, news, and financial data.

This tool searches the web using Tavily, an AI-optimized search engine. It supports multiple search topics (general, news, finance), adjustable search depth, time-based filtering, and can extract full page content. You can filter by specific domains and request AI-generated answers synthesized from results.

Edit Notes
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Edit the conversation notes.

Tool to take and edit notes throughout the conversation. This helps the TeamTeacher stay on task and keep track of work done and other notes about the conversation. It acts as a shared scratchpad for you and the TT.

IB Middle Years Programme (MYP)
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Search the MYP KB.

A curated collection covering all 8 MYP subject groups across years 1–5, derived from official IB documents. Every subject includes guide content and the full assessment criteria with achievement level descriptors (bands 0–8 for years 1, 3, and 5). When you ask the AI to help design a summative task or give feedback on student work, it's drawing on the same criteria you'd look up in the subject guide yourself. Beyond the subject guides, the knowledge base includes teacher support material with sample tasks and assessed student work for Language Acquisition and Arts, programme-level guidance on Approaches to Learning and interdisciplinary planning, and the complete Community Project and Personal Project criteria and supervision guidance.

IB Diploma Programme (DP)
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Search the DP KB.

All 6 DP subject groups — with guide content, assessment criteria, and the three core components: Theory of Knowledge, Extended Essay, and CAS. Whether you're planning a History unit, checking the internal assessment criteria for Biology, or looking up the Extended Essay marking descriptors, the AI has the source material to work from. Coverage spans every DP subject from Language A through the Arts, including all SL and HL options. The knowledge base also includes the command terms glossary used across all DP subjects and assessments — so when you need to know exactly what "evaluate" means in a DP context, it's there.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
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Search the Common Core KB.

Full ELA/Literacy and Mathematics standards for K–12, plus all official appendices — text exemplars, annotated student writing samples, and high school math course pathways. The knowledge base goes beyond the standards themselves to include instructional practice guides for classroom observation and lesson planning across multiple grade bands, curriculum-alignment tools, and reading foundational skills resources. If you're planning a lesson, observing a colleague, or differentiating for English language learners, the AI has standards-aligned guidance to draw on — including implementation guidance for students with disabilities and ELLs, and research-backed resources on close reading, spelling instruction, and MTSS.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
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Search the UDL KB.

The UDL Guidelines (version 2.2 and the 3.0 draft), the CAST Schoolwide Implementation Criteria, and a wide range of classroom tools for putting UDL into practice. Whether you're designing a lesson with multiple means of engagement, preparing for a UDL-focused observation, or leading schoolwide implementation, the AI can reference the specific guidelines, checkpoints, and planning tools that apply. The classroom tools collection covers observation and coaching (what to look for, how to track growth), lesson and assessment design, student self-reflection, and goal-setting. For school leaders, the knowledge base includes schoolwide readiness indicators, self-assessment tools, implementation planning resources, and guidance on antiracist UDL leadership. Enable this knowledge base alongside any curriculum KB, and the AI can apply UDL principles directly to your standards-aligned planning — building in multiple means of engagement, representation, and action from the start rather than retrofitting accessibility after the fact.

Minnesota
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Search the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards KB.

All Minnesota K–12 subject areas with standards content and implementation support, including learning progressions, instructional shifts, and assessment alignment charts. What makes this knowledge base distinctive is its depth beyond the core standards: it includes Indigenous education resources grounded in Dakota history and Minnesota tribal nations, English Language Development materials from Project Momentum for multilingual learner support, and PELSB licensing standards for professional educators. The Project Momentum collection is particularly deep — with ELD curriculum overlays by grade band, asset-based grading guides, individual language plan templates, translanguaging resources, and a full ESL licensure pathway handbook. If you're a Minnesota teacher working with multilingual learners or pursuing ESL licensure, the AI already has these tools at hand and can put them to work the moment you ask.

Texas
Experimental

Search the Texas State Standards KB.

Texas education standards and assessments across all K–12 subject areas. The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) are included for every subject — from core academics through fine arts, CTE, and career development. If you need to reference a specific standard, check a STAAR scoring guide or blueprint, or understand TELPAS proficiency expectations for a multilingual learner, the AI can pull from the relevant material without you having to look anything up first. STAAR coverage spans grades 3–8 and all high school end-of-course exams; TELPAS covers English language proficiency across grades 2–12. The knowledge base also includes College and Career Readiness standards across all four content areas, and accelerated instruction guidance — with implementation resources, high-impact tutoring best practices, and sample district schedules.

Cook Islands
Experimental

Search the Cook Islands KB.

TeamTeacher's first regional curriculum partnership, covering the Cook Islands national curriculum with content derived from official Cook Islands and New Zealand Ministry of Education documents. If you're planning lessons or looking for guidance on Cook Islands curriculum expectations, the AI can draw on what's here to help. This collection is still growing — if you teach in the Cook Islands, we'd love to hear what would be most useful to add next.

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
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Search the Next Generation Science Standards knowledge base.

All K–12 performance expectations organized in both the DCI and Topic arrangements used for unit planning, plus the official appendices covering Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, engineering design, and grade-band progressions. When you ask the AI to help build a science assessment or align a unit to specific performance expectations, it's grounded in the actual NGSS documents. The knowledge base also includes classroom vignettes showing NGSS-aligned instruction for diverse learner populations — including English language learners, students with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged students — along with equity-focused resources and practical tools for designing assessments that are genuinely three-dimensional.

Knowledge Base Details
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Get detailed information about a knowledge base.

Returns a detailed README for a specific knowledge base tool, including its contents, search capabilities, filtering options, and tips for effective searches. Use this to understand what a knowledge base contains and how to search it effectively before making queries.

Generate Image
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Generate images using AI based on text prompts.

This tool uses image generation models from Google or OpenAI to create images from text descriptions. Supports long descriptions. Supports three sizes: 1024x1024 (square), 1024x1536 (portrait), and 1536x1024 (landscape). Generates one to four images per request.

Knowledge Graph
Experimental

Educational knowledge graph with concepts, relationships, and curriculum mapping.

Connect to an external Knowledge Graph server that provides tools for exploring educational concepts, relationships between topics, and curriculum alignment data.