Part 1 of a series. Part 2 covers the full tool catalog. Part 3 covers ObjectScript skills. Part 4 covers benchmarking and measuring what actually improves.
The Problem Hiding in the Comments
Thomas Mazur's post "Frogs, Chickens, AI, and VS Code" on VS Code productivity — Peacock, scoped workspace files, Copilot Agent mode — drew a sharper problem in the comments. Pietro Di Leo and Mike.W pointed out that when you work server-side in VS Code, the isfs:// workspace most production IRIS shops use, Copilot can only see the files open in your editor. It cannot index the virtual filesystem. On a mature IRIS application with thousands of classes, the AI works through a keyhole.
John Murray pointed people at a project I've been building — iris-agentic-dev — and noted no Developer Community article existed for it yet. So here it is: why the problem exists, how the tool addresses it, and how to get it running in about five minutes.
Why the AI Can't See Your Namespace
