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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

Isaac Flath

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

Eleanor Berger

Eleanor Berger

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

Google
Microsoft
Canonical
Answer AI
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