Free Lesson
Extend Your AI Agent with Custom Tools
Part of Velocity Coding
60 min
Dec 16, 2025 2:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
Understand why custom tools unlock agent power
See why a generic agent is limited and how purpose-built tools transform it into a powerful assistant for your work
Build MCP servers, CLI scripts, and Skills from scratch
Follow along as we live-code each approach and walk through the key patterns
Know what to build for your own workflow
Identify which repetitive tasks and environment-specific needs would benefit most from custom tooling
Why this topic matters
A generic AI agent is merely competent. An agent equipped with tools tailored to your environment, your codebase, and your workflows becomes genuinely powerful.
In this session, we'll build custom tools live — MCP servers, command-line scripts, and Claude Skills — so you can see exactly how to create them yourself. Walk away ready to extend your agent for your own work.
You'll learn from

Isaac Flath
Dev-efficiency and AI expert; Elite AI-Assisted Coding co-instructor

Eleanor Berger
Engineering & AI Leader; Elite AI-Assisted Coding co-instructor
