Every coding agent has a training cutoff, and anything shipped after it is invisible — not wrong, just absent. The failure is silent: no error, no hedge, just a plan that is quietly out of date. Here is how we hand our agents a short, human-curated, expiring shelf of what our team actually adopted after that date — and why multi-repo teams need a distribution mechanism to do it at all.
AI agent vs. MCP server: which one should you build?