Agent Mode

[dwash96]

Issue Chat for Agent Mode Initiatives

[ErichBSchulz]

This is the future! Interestingly Gemini 2.5 Pro was not very good with the tools.

[devsoft-co-za]

Just a note here - each tool adds it's own overhead, we need to be aware of that. MCP especially can take up quite a bit of context. I would recommend a user message or mention in future documentation to that effect: "Use only what you need!"

[dwash96]

Yeah that's fair, for the local tools, there is already includelist/excludelist concept in the config:
https://github.com/dwash96/aider-ce/blob/main/aider/website/docs/config/agent-mode.md

And the other servers are self-selected by the users but we should probably display a count of how much of the context window is MCP tool schemas and definitions.

Potentially, we could also probably just add a local tool to agent mode that it can call to load other tools dynamically and we only send a list of tool names, short descriptions until that one says we should use the entire schema but that messes around with the the logic of sending the tools to litellm quite a bit probably

[ErichBSchulz]

Thought bubbles.

What would be good is a 1-2 line tip when you enter /agent (to help noobs).

Also be good to have some visibility on what the current tools are - as an agentic noob I'm just going with the defaults maybe a /tools command that listed the current config and gave a 1-2 line instruction on how to update??

mmm... then when entering /agent mode the could be a simple tip "In agentic mode run /tools to see current configuration"