§1. This is a miscellany of command-line tools, which vary in size and usefulness. Only inblorb is included in the GUI apps for Inform; the others are for building and maintenance. Note that the intest and inweb tools have their own repositories, and are not in the list here; nor is Inform 6, which is not a literate program.

Unlike the compilers these tools are not modular, except that they all use the foundation library supplied by inweb.

§2. Users of the Inform GUI apps generally write and test their work inside the app, but eventually click Release to export a stand-alone program. inblorb is the tool which performs this releasing stage. It can package code up into a standard IF format known as a "blorb", whence the name, and can also make accompanying websites.

§3. indoc is a formatter for the two Inform manuals contained inside the GUI app and on the www.inform7.com website. This is a more complex task than may appear, since the manuals are indexed and interlinked in intricate ways, and share Examples.

§4. inpolicy is a lint-like tool for checking that the Inform source base complies with some self-imposed social norms.

§5. inrtps is a tiny tool which generates run-time-problem pages, the HTML pages displayed in the GUI app when various problems occur as the user tests something she has written.