Ever since aliases were mostly stripped away it has been very clunky to make code that works for an entire category of items, such as those belonging to a specific tag. For example,

on right click with any hoe:
  send "Yay!"

is now

on right click:
  tool is tagged as "hoes"
  send "Yay!"

in the best case, which is rather unintuitive.

Skript would benefit from first-class support for item tags similar to how particle types have language-level support, and re-introducing syntax like if the player's tool is a sword in a limited form could make Skript much more intuitive for beginners without the pitfalls of aliases.

A naïve implementation would be, for example, item/block/entity category types that mirror the values of the corresponding tag. This combined with a literal like any %*itemcategory/blockcategory/entitycategory% that returns an or-list of the contents of the category would be sufficient for on right click with any hoe to work.

Would love to hear the team's thoughts, particularly about if such an implementation is possible at all and the types of ambiguities involved. For example, we probably don't want whether event-block is a grass block to be true for podzol, despite podzol being in the grass_blocks tag. Some tags are also fairly useless, e.g. tool is any gold tool material would be the same as tool is gold ingot.