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).
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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.
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- Sandhya Subramani — Senior Developer Advocate, GenAI at Amazon Web Services.
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