Ask HN: Do coding agents need cross-tool org knowledge? Or, just good to have?

A developer building a knowledge substrate for coding agents that pulls from all connected tools is struggling to gain traction with growing engineering teams. The tool, designed to provide cross-source, fresh evidence in agent-native form, is being perceived as "good to have" rather than essential by the target audience of teams with 15 to 80 engineers. The founder now questions whether the product is a "vitamin" rather than a necessity for agentic coding adoption.

I've been talking to engineers, mostly in large teams. While they love cross-surface search with Glean, they still assimilate and curate the context for agents manually. It is especially useful during incidents and new onboarding. I've been building a knowledge substrate for engineering teams that is native to coding agents and pulls from all connected tools. It returns cross-source, fresh, credible evidence in agent-native form without context bloat. It's effective and efficient enough to deploy for smaller teams. My ICP is growing teams/startups between 15 and 80 engineers with good agentic coding adoption. I've been trying to reach out to these founders/teams. A very low number of conversations materialise, and the ones that do perceive it as only 'good to have'. Have I been building vitamin? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297996 Points: 2 Comments: 0