Concise prompts beat verbose tool guides for coding agents, Harbor evals show
colinmcnamara · x · 2026-10-09
Jeff Linwood's Harbor evals shared at AIMUG show that short instructions outperform verbose tool descriptions for coding agents. The takeaway: when writing tool docs and prompts for agents, concise beats detailed.
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