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Feature request: UX for maintaining list of available tools in cli-agents

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CLI agent configurations include an allowlist of available tools (the `tools` list, not the `allowedTools`list). For an agent that includes large MCP servers (or many MCP servers), where the user wants to control for tool context consumption but still have a large handful of tools available, the `tools` list can include dozens of entries. And, as MCP servers continue to evolve tool names may change or new tools may become available that would benefit a given agent configuration.

Currently `/tools` run within an agent lists only the tools that are available to the agent. I can't find any way to have Q CLI list out all agents that *could possibly* be available from the loaded MCP servers, and therefore can't effectively review and update my `tools` list to account for these changes.

A better UX for maintaining `tools` lists could be as simple as adding a `/tools --all` command which shows all possible tools (leaving it to the user to append `@mcp-server-name/` ahead of tool names before pasting them into the agent config. Or it could be as involved as displaying a scrollable list of all potentially available tools, showing which are included in the current agent and which are not, and letting the user toggle availability on each tool, with Q CLI modifying the agent config as these toggles change.

Does the Q CLI team have any specific plans for agent maintenance workflows including the `tools` list that are already aiming to solve this?

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