# Making AI Coding Agents More Efficient: My Local Toolkit

> Source: <https://dev.to/ammarnajjar/making-ai-coding-agents-more-efficient-my-local-toolkit-86n>
> Published: 2026-08-23 17:17:43+00:00

Giving AI coding agents more tools doesn’t necessarily make them more efficient.

After using OpenCode and Claude Code heavily, I started focusing less on adding capabilities and more on controlling the information flowing into the agent.

That means:

I’ve documented the toolkit I currently use, including Headroom, RTK, Caveman, Serena, `rg`

, `fd`

, `ast-grep`

, `jq`

, `yq`

, and others, along with how I define their responsibilities in `AGENTS.md`

.

The principle behind all of it is simple:

Give the agent the smallest amount of information necessary to make the next correct decision.

Full post:

[https://ammar-najjar.com/blog/local-ai-coding-toolkit/](https://ammar-najjar.com/blog/local-ai-coding-toolkit/)