---
title: "Agents That Forge Their Own Tools: Self-Modifying AI in the Wild"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-07-01"
time: "12:05pm-12:25pm"
track: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
room: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
speakers: ["Sandhya Subramani"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: ""
scheduleRoom: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
scheduleLabels: ["Expo Stage 4 SE", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Agents That Forge Their Own Tools: Self-Modifying AI in the Wild

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 12:05pm-12:25pm
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 4 SE
- Speaker(s): Sandhya Subramani
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: track TBD
- Room: Expo Stage 4 SE
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
What happens when your agent decides its existing tools aren't good enough and writes new ones? Self-modifying agents can generate, test, and deploy their own tool implementations at runtime, adapting to problems they weren't explicitly programmed to solve. In this session, we'll demo a live agent that forges its own tools on the fly, discuss the safety boundaries you need, and explore where this pattern makes sense (and where it absolutely doesn't).

## Media Evidence
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## Transcript Status
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## People
- [[sandhya-subramani]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Agents That Forge Their Own Tools: Self-Modifying AI in the Wild ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 12:05pm-12:25pm - Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 4 SE - Speaker(s): Sandhya Subramani - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: track TBD - Room: Expo Stage 4 SE - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description What happens when your agent decides its existing tools aren't good enough and writes new ones? Self-modifying agents can generate, test, and deploy their own tool implementations at runtime, adapting to problems they weren't explicitly programmed to solve. In this session, we'll demo a live agent that forges its own tools on the fly, discuss the safety boundaries you need, and explore where this pattern makes sense (and where it absolutely doesn't). ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[sandhya-subramani|Sandhya Subramani]] — Senior Developer Advocate, GenAI at [[amazon-web-services|Amazon Web Services]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]
- [[coding-agents]]

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