24. Configuring and Extending Agents

This chapter covers making an agent fit your project and your research:

• Configuring Agents for Your Project: project instructions, skills, MCP servers, and subagents, plus the guardrails that hold whatever the model decides: permission rules, hooks, caps on unattended runs, and git as an undo layer.

• Building Custom Tools and MCP Servers: packaging your own workflows as skills, and giving an agent your data and cluster tools through a small MCP server.