500 Skills, Zero Fine-Tuning: LinkedIn's Playbook for AI Agents That Actually Know Your Codebase
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500 Skills, Zero Fine-Tuning: LinkedIn's Playbook for AI Agents That Actually Know Your Codebase
- Day
- Day 3 — Session Day 2
- Time
- 11:40am-12:00pm
- Room
- Track 8
- Track
- Context Engineering
Accessible with the Engineering pass and above.
About this session
Everyone's building custom AI agents. We didn't. Instead, we built CAPTAIN — an MCP server that makes any off-the-shelf coding agent understand LinkedIn's entire engineering stack. The secret: a meta-tool architecture (discover → inspect → execute) and composable skills that encode tribal knowledge as executable workflows. 500+ skills later, it's used across all of LinkedIn engineering. I'll show you the architecture in 10 minutes and why context engineering beats model engineering every time.
Topics
Coding Agents
