[threecheese]

For the first, I think maintaining package-add instructions is table stakes, we need to be opinionated here. Agents are typically good at following them, if not you can fall over to a Makefile that does everything.

For the second, I totally agree. I continue to hope that agents will get better at refactoring, and I think using LSPs effectively would make this happen. Claude took dozens of minutes to perform a rename which Jetbrains would have executed perfectly in like five seconds. Its approach was to make a change, run the tests, do it again. Nuts.

[catlifeonmars]

Does the agent have a way to interact with the lsp?

[onionisafruit]

I don’t know about other lsps, but gopls has an -mcp flag that makes it run an mcp server. There’s also a jetbrains plugin for claude that gives claude the ability to use a subset of your jetbrains IDE’s features.

I usually have both of those configured when using claude on Go repos, and I still have the same frustrations as the comments above. Gopls has symbol search, but claude almost always uses grep to find uses instead.