Matt Pocock: Give Your Coding Agents Tools That Build Code the Way You Like
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-10-05
In a discussion, Matt Pocock lays out a simple agent-engineering principle: provide your agents with functions that let them build code the way you like, and give them powerful tools they can hopefully compose into features — encoding your coding standards and architectural preferences at the tool layer rather than via prompts.
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