--- title: "Discussion on \"I tried to hack my own AI agent. I failed. That was the best result I could have asked for.\" | Hashnode" description: "Discussion on \"I tried to hack my own AI agent. I failed. That was the best result I could have asked for.\". Fifteen years shipping software. The last twelve months, nothing but AI — full time, all in. What came out is seventeen tools that turn a generic coding agent into one that's actually mine. This is th" url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/i-tried-to-hack-my-own-ai-agent-i-failed-that-was-the-best-result-i-could-have-asked-for/6a6352ed8cf7a5160d499027" --- [Feed](https://hashnode.com/feed) / Discussion # [I tried to hack my own AI agent. I failed. That was the best result I could have asked for.](https://nott.hashnode.dev/i-tried-to-hack-my-own-ai-agent-i-failed-that-was-the-best-result-i-could-have-asked-for?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Fifteen years shipping software. The last twelve months, nothing but AI — full time, all in. What came out is seventeen tools that turn a generic coding agent into one that's actually mine. This is th Jul 24 · 7 min read · nott.hashnode.dev Read the article - [#claude-code](https://hashnode.com/tag/claude-code) - [#mcp](https://hashnode.com/tag/mcp) - [#mcp-server](https://hashnode.com/tag/mcp-server) - [#promptengineering](https://hashnode.com/tag/promptengineering) - [#promptinjections](https://hashnode.com/tag/promptinjections) ## Written by [tiago](https://hashnode.com/@notthq) @notthq [View profile](https://hashnode.com/@notthq) Building NOTT — 17 tools that make a coding agent actually mine. 15 years shipping software, the last 12 all-in on AI. 15 years shipping software, the last 12 months all-in on AI. Building NOTT — a devkit of 17 tools that make a coding agent actually mine, released one at a time. First two public: nMEMORY (memory that abstains instead of guessing) and nSOUL (the engineering core that won't let the agent claim what it can't prove). ## Responses Markdown supported · ⌘↵ to post No responses yet.