We removed 80% of our agent’s tools

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Vercel (blog + changelog) at 22 Dec 2025, 13:00 UTC

It got better. We spent months building a sophisticated internal text-to-SQL agent, d0, with specialized tools, heavy prompt engineering, and careful context management. It worked… kind of. But it was fragile, slow, and required constant maintenance. grep cat ls So we tried something different. We…