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Designing Tools for AI Agents: How to Build CLIs and APIs Agents Can Actually Use

Designing tools for AI agents is becoming its own discipline. Drawing on the agent-optimized hf CLI, datasette-agent-edit, and a 150-line build, here are the concrete patterns that make a CLI or API agent-friendly.

06/08/2026 · AI Tutorials · 8 min read

How to Build Agent Skills: A Practitioner's Guide

Agent skills are how you turn a general-purpose AI agent into a reliable specialist. Here's a practitioner's guide to scoping, writing, and testing agent skills — with the vocabulary (harness vs. scaffold) and patterns that actually hold up.

06/06/2026 · AI Tutorials · 9 min read

How to Reduce AI Agent Token Costs: 9 Tactics That Actually Work

AI agent token costs are climbing fast enough that enterprises are capping usage. Here are nine concrete tactics to reduce AI agent token costs without crippling capability.

06/06/2026 · AI Tutorials · 8 min read