diff --git a/cmd/src/main.go b/cmd/src/main.go
index fa2e234138..b2826f4935 100644
--- a/cmd/src/main.go
+++ b/cmd/src/main.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"flag"
 	"io"
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ The commands are:
 	search          search for results on Sourcegraph
 	search-jobs     manages search jobs
 	serve-git       serves your local git repositories over HTTP for Sourcegraph to pull
+	tool            exposes tools for AI agents to interact with Sourcegraph (EXPERIMENTAL)
 	users,user      manages users
 	codeowners      manages code ownership information
 	version         display and compare the src-cli version against the recommended version for your instance
@@ -90,6 +92,14 @@ func main() {
 	log.SetFlags(0)
 	log.SetPrefix("")
 
+	// "tool" does not use the legacy commander cli framework and uses urfave/cli v3 instead
+	if len(os.Args) >= 2 && os.Args[1] == "tool" {
+		if err := toolCmd.Run(context.Background(), os.Args[1:]); err != nil {
+			log.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
 	commands.run(flag.CommandLine, "src", usageText, normalizeDashHelp(os.Args[1:]))
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/src/tool.go b/cmd/src/tool.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0c64e1b0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/src/tool.go
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/urfave/cli/v3"
+)
+
+var toolCmd = &cli.Command{
+	Name:        "src tool",
+	Usage:       "Exposes tools for AI agents to interact with Sourcegraph (EXPERIMENTAL)",
+	Description: "The tool subcommand exposes tools that can be used by AI agents to perform tasks against Sourcegraph instances.",
+	Commands:    []*cli.Command{},
+	Writer:      os.Stdout,
+	Action: func(ctx context.Context, c *cli.Command) error {
+		fmt.Println("Not implemented")
+		return nil
+	},
+}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index ea881257ac..63b72a5a05 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/sourcegraph/scip v0.6.1
 	github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/lib v0.0.0-20240709083501-1af563b61442
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.11.1
+	github.com/urfave/cli/v3 v3.6.1
 	golang.org/x/net v0.44.0
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.17.0
 	google.golang.org/api v0.132.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 4a873f16a1..b03900bd3b 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -451,6 +451,8 @@ github.com/stretchr/testify v1.11.1/go.mod h1:wZwfW3scLgRK+23gO65QZefKpKQRnfz6sD
 github.com/tetratelabs/wazero v1.3.0 h1:nqw7zCldxE06B8zSZAY0ACrR9OH5QCcPwYmYlwtcwtE=
 github.com/tetratelabs/wazero v1.3.0/go.mod h1:wYx2gNRg8/WihJfSDxA1TIL8H+GkfLYm+bIfbblu9VQ=
 github.com/urfave/cli v1.22.12/go.mod h1:sSBEIC79qR6OvcmsD4U3KABeOTxDqQtdDnaFuUN30b8=
+github.com/urfave/cli/v3 v3.6.1 h1:j8Qq8NyUawj/7rTYdBGrxcH7A/j7/G8Q5LhWEW4G3Mo=
+github.com/urfave/cli/v3 v3.6.1/go.mod h1:ysVLtOEmg2tOy6PknnYVhDoouyC/6N42TMeoMzskhso=
 github.com/vbatts/tar-split v0.11.3 h1:hLFqsOLQ1SsppQNTMpkpPXClLDfC2A3Zgy9OUU+RVck=
 github.com/vbatts/tar-split v0.11.3/go.mod h1:9QlHN18E+fEH7RdG+QAJJcuya3rqT7eXSTY7wGrAokY=
 github.com/x448/float16 v0.8.4 h1:qLwI1I70+NjRFUR3zs1JPUCgaCXSh3SW62uAKT1mSBM=