Two days, built for engineers.

Beyond the Codebase: Giving Coding Agents the Business Context They're Missing

Raj Navakoti

Coding agents can read your entire codebase — and still make confidently wrong decisions. The code tells them how the system works, but not why: the business rules, the domain language, the "we always check X first," the service that was renamed two years ago that three teams still call by its old name. That knowledge lives outside the code — in people's heads, stale wikis, and closed tickets — and your agent can't see it. This talk is about engineering that missing non-code context into something an agent can actually use: structured, bounded, lightly-typed knowledge (ontologies without the RDF/OWL pain), kept current and honest instead of dumped into a vector store. I'll show why one giant knowledge corpus rots — and how bounded contexts fix it — how to keep the knowledge self-evolving, and where it still breaks. You'll leave with a repeatable method and an open-source toolkit to try on your own domain next week.