5 AgentPatch Tools Every Claude Code Setup Needs

Claude Code is a capable coding agent out of the box, but its knowledge has a cutoff and it can’t access external data on its own. AgentPatch adds that capability through MCP. Here are five tools worth having in every Claude Code setup.

Setup

The AgentPatch CLI is designed for AI agents to use via shell access. Install it, and your agent can discover and invoke any tool on the marketplace.

Install (zero dependencies, Python 3.10+):

pip install agentpatch

Set your API key:

export AGENTPATCH_API_KEY=your_api_key

Example commands your agent will use:

ap search "web search"
ap run google-search --input '{"query": "test"}'

Get your API key from the AgentPatch dashboard.

Install the AgentPatch skill — it teaches Claude Code when to use AgentPatch and how to use the CLI:

/plugin marketplace add fullthom/agentpatch-claude-skill
/plugin install agentpatch@agentpatch

MCP Server (Alternative)

If you prefer raw MCP tool access instead of the skill:

claude mcp add -s user --transport http agentpatch https://agentpatch.ai/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard.

The Five Tools

1. Google Search (50 credits/call) The most frequently useful tool for coding sessions. Claude Code can search for current docs, look up error messages, check package versions, and find recent Stack Overflow threads without you opening a browser.

Details: agentpatch.ai/tools/thomas/google-search

2. Google News (75 credits/call) Useful when you need to know what’s recently changed in a technology or library. “Has anything changed with X since last year?” becomes a real search instead of a guess based on training data.

Details: agentpatch.ai/tools/thomas/google-news

3. Google Maps (75 credits/call) Comes up more often than you’d expect during coding: generating realistic location seed data, building location features, testing address normalization with real examples. Claude Code can fetch real business listings when you need them.

Details: agentpatch.ai/tools/thomas/google-maps

4. Google Trends (75 credits/call) Useful when building market research features, SEO tools, or anything that needs to model search demand. Claude Code can check actual trend data and use it to inform the design or test fixtures.

Details: agentpatch.ai/tools/thomas/google-trends

5. Generate Image (800 credits/call) Claude Code can generate images during a session — useful for producing realistic assets for UI testing, generating placeholder images that match a design spec, or creating visuals for a project without leaving the terminal.

Details: agentpatch.ai/tools/toolkit/generate-image-recraft

Example

In a single Claude Code session:

“I’m building an e-commerce product page. Find the current best practices for product page SEO, generate a realistic product image for a running shoe, and check if there’s any recent news about Core Web Vitals updates.”

Claude Code searches Google for SEO best practices, calls Google News for Core Web Vitals updates, and generates an image — then uses all of that context to improve the code it writes for the product page.

Wrapping Up

These five tools handle the most common cases where Claude Code needs external data or generation capability. Connect AgentPatch once and you get all of them — plus everything else on the marketplace. Explore at agentpatch.ai.

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