“We build a lot of tooling just to mask all that data before it gets exposed to the agent”
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Said on Founder Mode
“The agent has access to a tool for reading a file, another for searching the code base, another for running tests. Those tools are exposed to the model, along with information describing what they can do and how they can be used.”
Sowjanya Pandruju · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Sowjanya Pandruju on Managing Agent State
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expose specific tools (e.g., file-reading tool, code-search tool, test-running tool) to the LLM via the agent runtime
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