[OJFord]

If someone shows you how to take a stick and a stone and make a hammer, and you imitate, you're certainly not 'pushing the envelope of tooling development', but you're still making a tool.

As the most prevalent & familiar here modern example, I'd suggest writing to .bashrc & using ssh-keygen are 'making tools' in the relevant sense.

[trashtester]

Attaching a the stone to a stick makes a very advanced hammer. While we've been using hammers without sticks for over 2 million years, hammers with sticks only came around 30k years ago.

[undersuit]

And none of the improvements on hammers for specific actions count. The orientation or prongs on a modern hammer isn't going to stymie a neanderthal unless they are destudding drywall.