Building Effective Coding Agents: Basic Tools Are All You Need
deliprao · x · 2026-08-11
A developer points out that building an effective coding agent only requires a few core built-in tools: read, bash, edit, and write. Modern models already know how to leverage bash commands and can achieve more than expected using just these basic primitives.
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