Extend Your AI Agent with Custom Tools

Hosted by Isaac Flath and Eleanor Berger

Tue, Dec 16, 2025

7:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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Elite AI Assisted Coding
Eleanor Berger and Isaac Flath
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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

Isaac is an independent consultant who has helped many companies incorporate AI into their products. I've taught AI efficiency to companies for years and worked for tech startups and cutting edge labs.


As a consultant, I have helped companies of all sizes from startups (such as Ankihub and SpecStory) to enterprise clients (such as Travel & Leisure and Cable and Wireless Communications). Previously, I worked as a researcher at Novetta where I worked on Chatbots, and worked at other cutting edge labs such as Answer AI.

Eleanor Berger

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

Eleanor Berger is an AI expert and technology leader with a track record of advising, building and leading high-performing AI engineering teams at Microsoft, Google and several start-ups.


At Microsoft and Google, Eleanor enabled top cloud customers, including startups, software vendors, and enterprises, to deliver impactful AI-first solutions. She has served in key advisory roles with a focus on applied AI and is recognised as a leading voice in the industry.


Today, Eleanor advises companies and empowers catalysts — leaders who drive AI innovation — by pairing deep technical expertise with hard-won managerial insight. Eleanor helps organisations build robust AI capability, integrate advanced AI and deliver powerful solutions that drive business value and strategic advantage.

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