---
title: "GET /harness/tools/{name}"
description: Get a tool by name
full: true
---

**Auth:** required. Send an `ivy_` API key (`Authorization: Bearer ivy_…` or `X-Ivy-Api-Key`), a Clerk session JWT (`Authorization: Bearer …`) or the Clerk `__session` cookie (browser sessions). See [Authentication](/docs/api/authentication).

Returns full metadata for a single tool including its JSON Schema for inputs and outputs.

## Request

#### Path parameters

- `name` (string) —
Tool name (e.g., admet_predict, protein_fold)

## Responses

### `200` OK

Tool found

Response shape:

- `name` (string) —

- `description` (string) —

- `tier` (enum ("t1" | "t2" | "t3" | "t4" | "t5")) —

- `domain` (string) —

- `inputSchema` (object) —
JSON Schema for tool inputs

- `outputSchema` (object) —
JSON Schema for tool outputs

### `401` Unauthorized

Authentication required

Response shape: `object`

### `404` Not Found

Resource not found

Response shape: `object`

**curl**

```bash
curl -X GET 'https://ivybiosciences.com/api/harness/tools/{name}' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $IVY_API_KEY"
```

**JavaScript**

```js
const res = await fetch('https://ivybiosciences.com/api/harness/tools/{name}', {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.IVY_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
const data = await res.json();
```

**Python**

```python
import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://ivybiosciences.com/api/harness/tools/{name}",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['IVY_API_KEY']}"},
)
data = res.json()
```