An AI worker is only as good as its grasp of the tools it’s actually using. And that grasp is frozen at whatever the model knew when it was trained. The tool shipped three features last month, changed an interface, deprecated a flag, and your agent has no idea. It’s confidently working from an old manual.
The move I keep wanting is simple: have the agent subscribe to its own tool stack’s documentation and keep a living manual it maintains. When the docs change, the manual updates. The worker stays current instead of stuck at training time.
It’s a small thing that compounds. Half the times an agent does something dumb, it’s not that it’s dumb. It’s that it’s working from a version of the world that no longer exists.
Your AI knows your tools as of its training date. Who, or what, is keeping it current?