# How Tobi Lütke actually uses coding agents

Shopify CEO, qmd

**If you take one thing:** `qmd`, local search, agents too. his own all-local search engine is the base layer under the tools he builds, and he points his agents at it too.

- **Agent:** Claude Code ([source, 2026-10-06](https://github.com/tobi/track-atlas/commit/8c12ac414ea74ffe4a3ef74b294a2eafab7ee60d))
- **Agent:** Pi (cli) ([source, 2026-05-18](https://x.com/tobi/status/2056198717225464307))
- **Agent:** Hermes Agent ([source, 2026-07-01](https://x.com/tobi/status/2072368961795039694))
- **Model:** Claude Opus 5.5 ([source, 2026-10-06](https://github.com/tobi/track-atlas/commit/8c12ac414ea74ffe4a3ef74b294a2eafab7ee60d))
- **Model:** GPT-6 Astra ([source, 2026-09-06](https://x.com/tobi/status/2096431707079454874))
- **Review:** Spec suite the agent must pass ([source, 2025-12-01](https://x.com/tobi/status/1995316357060063684))
- **Harness:** herdr agent panes, Pi /team workers ([source, 2026-08-09](https://x.com/tobi/status/2086488457132626052))
- **Rules file:** AGENTS.md ([source, 2026-07-25](https://github.com/tobi/dotfiles/blob/c5117778bebdb63d75a0469dd653e3a2566e825c/AGENTS.md#L7))
- **Skills:** layer-tools, surface-tools ([source, 2026-10-06](https://github.com/tobi/track-atlas/tree/8c12ac414ea74ffe4a3ef74b294a2eafab7ee60d/skills))
- **Hooks:** gitleaks pre-commit secret scan ([source, 2026-08-08](https://github.com/tobi/dotfiles/blob/5648d49fa4aea504423670a22def661163714653/.githooks/pre-commit#L16))
- **MCP servers:** context7 ([source, 2026-02-16](https://github.com/tobi/ac-tracer/blob/880e9e4edccb1de39b162a2056fabbc380e5ed57/.claude/settings.local.json#L8))

## In their words

> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

> I’ve had very good results running autoresearch with local qwen 3.6 26b model as long as I had a simple vibed pi “advisor” extension that allowed it to periodically ask GPT 5.5 for ideas.

> If you use Hermes, just go “/learn duckdb and ducklake and use it” and all your data asks will get better.

> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

> GPT6 Astra made a headless version for me.


Archetype (our label): Toolsmith. Newest source: 2026-10-06.
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