looker-dev-mode.md•1.65 kB
---
title: "looker-dev-mode"
type: docs
weight: 1
description: >
A "looker-dev-mode" tool changes the current session into and out of dev mode
aliases:
- /resources/tools/looker-dev-mode
---
## About
A `looker-dev-mode` tool changes the session into and out of dev mode.
It's compatible with the following sources:
- [looker](../../sources/looker.md)
`looker-dev-mode` accepts a boolean parameter, true to enter dev mode and false to exit dev mode.
## Example
```yaml
tools:
dev_mode:
kind: looker-dev-mode
source: looker-source
description: |
dev_mode Tool
Passing true to this tool switches the session to dev mode. Passing false to this tool switches the
session to production mode.
```
## Reference
| **field** | **type** | **required** | **description** |
|-------------|:------------------------------------------:|:------------:|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| kind | string | true | Must be "looker-dev-mode". |
| source | string | true | Name of the source Looker instance. |
| description | string | true | Description of the tool that is passed to the LLM. |