Doug Finke

Coding agents like Claude Code are powerful, but they can't understand your business documents by default - here's how to fix that. We've identified three complementary approaches to give coding agents true document intelligence: 📡 Access docs through MCP - Connect Claude Code to your indexed document repositories via Model Context Protocol, giving it instant access to your business context like policies, reports, and specifications ⚡ Operate through enhanced CLI - Extend familiar command-line tools with document parsing capabilities, letting agents use grep, cat, and find operations on complex PDFs and structured documents 🛠️ Build agentic workflows - Teach Claude Code to generate AI-native applications that adapt to new document formats instead of breaking on hard-coded rules 🎯 Best approach? Use all three together for maximum impact The reality is that 90% of enterprise data lives in documents, and coding agents that can't process this information will build generic, brittle applications. By combining MCP integration, enhanced CLI tools, and workflow generation capabilities, you can bridge the gap between natural language business requirements and real enterprise automation. Learn the complete strategy: https://lnkd.in/eQHxuvqY

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New blog post, "Symmetric ACP": https://lnkd.in/dDU7FDbq This post describes **SymmACP** -- a proposed extension to Zed Industries' Agent Client Protocol that lets you build AI tools like Unix pipes or browser extensions. Want a better TUI? Found some cool slash commands on GitHub? Prefer a different backend? With SymmACP, you can mix and match these pieces and have them all work together without knowing about each other.

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Quick tip for anyone building custom Typst templates for use with Quarto: If special characters like $ are causing mysterious compilation errors that standard escaping won't fix, try hexadecimal escape sequences instead. For example: \u{24} for the dollar sign. Wrote up a quick note covering this technique, including how to use Typst's ASCII table tool to find hex codes for any character. Could save you some debugging headaches! https://lnkd.in/eE62SBGb #Typst #Quarto

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Your subgraph or Connector in a federated #GraphQL architecture doesn’t exist in isolation. It’s part of a larger system where client queries span multiple services, and performance bottlenecks can cascade across the entire graph. Now available, Subgraph and Connector-level insights in GraphOS Studio. Enable your teams to quickly understand your services’ behavior in the context of a larger federated graph, helping you identify issues and proactively improve performance. Learn more about how to get started: https://lnkd.in/e2b-RC2p

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Here's my brief argument about why I think XSLT should continue to be a part of the web platform and why I think the inclination to consider it replaced by JS, JSON and React-like processes is the wrong way to consider its role in the web. https://lnkd.in/e8kXrSPg

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