Do coding agents need cross-tool org knowledge? Or, just good to have?
The article discusses the need for coding agents to have cross-tool organizational knowledge. While engineers appreciate tools like Glean for cross-surface search, they still manually curate context for agents. The author is developing a knowledge substrate for engineering teams but finds that many perceive it as merely a 'good to have' feature.
- ▪Engineers in large teams value cross-surface search but still curate context manually.
- ▪The author is building a knowledge substrate that pulls from connected tools for coding agents.
- ▪The target audience includes growing teams and startups with 15 to 80 engineers.
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I've been talking to engineers, mostly in large teams. While they love cross-surface search with Glean, they still assimilate and curate the context for agents manually. It is especially useful during incidents and new onboarding.I've been building a knowledge substrate for engineering teams that is native to coding agents and pulls from all connected tools. It returns cross-source, fresh, credible evidence in agent-native form without context bloat. It's effective and efficient enough to deploy for smaller teams.My ICP is growing teams/startups between 15 and 80 engineers with good agentic coding adoption. I've been trying to reach out to these founders/teams.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.