--- title: "My Thoughts on AI, Part 2: Agent Setup, Workflow, and Tools" url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-thoughts-on-ai-part-2-agent-setup-workflow-and-tools-bwcpsofep source_url: https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-2-agent-workflow-tools type: article source: "Mark Erikson" published: 2026-08-06T10:37:14.821Z updated: 2026-08-06T10:37:44.491Z tags: ["ai-agents", "mcp", "context-engineering", "opencode"] reading_time: 32 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My Thoughts on AI, Part 2: Agent Setup, Workflow, and Tools **[Mark Erikson](https://daily.dev/sources/markerikson)** · 32 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A detailed personal account of one developer's AI-assisted coding workflow using OpenCode with a custom web UI (CodeNomad), Anthropic's Opus models, and a highly customized setup. The post covers an orchestrator-plus-subtask session architecture where the developer maintains full control and mental engagement, a separate dev-plans repo for managing Markdown artifacts, custom plugins for permissions management and file read caching, MCP tools for codebase exploration (grepika, tilth, cachebro), dynamic context pruning to avoid session compaction, and a suite of slash commands and Bun/TypeScript automation scripts. The author emphasizes determinism, intentional pacing, and staying mentally engaged rather than maximizing throughput. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [My first two months using AI](https://daily.dev/posts/my-first-two-months-using-ai-02ytnexqk) · Advanced Web Machinery · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#context-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/context-engineering), [#opencode](https://daily.dev/tags/opencode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/my-thoughts-on-ai-part-2-agent-setup-workflow-and-tools-bwcpsofep)