Beyond Copilot: Building Domain-Native Agents in C#

Generic coding agents are impressive — until they hit your codebase, your conventions, and your domain. They can generate code, but they can't understand why your system is shaped the way it is.
This session walks through building a custom C# coding agent using Spectre. Console and the AI SDK — one that doesn't just write code, but operates with real knowledge of your architecture, your tooling, and your constraints. We'll cover how custom C# tools give the agent capabilities that prompt engineering alone can't replicate: querying your actual project structure, enforcing your patterns, running your validation — all as first-class tool calls, not hopeful instructions in a system prompt.
You'll walk away with a concrete understanding of where generic agents hit their ceiling, what domain-native tooling unlocks, and how to start building agents that are genuinely integrated into your stack rather than bolted on top of it.