Agent Capabilities Should Be Context-Specific
brandon_galang · x · 2026-07-10
The author expresses growing frustration with global agent behaviors, specifically global hooks, defaults, skills, and memory.
They argue that most capabilities should be scoped to specific projects, repositories, roles, or contexts, rather than being enabled globally by default.
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