I think AST aware code reading is criminally underused by agents - you don't need a header file if you can see a listing of all the functions in a library.

Similarly, I don't read the whole file a function is in while editing it in an IDE, why should a coding agent get the whole file polluting its context by default?

Check out Ataraxy-Labs/weave for AST-aware git merges.

But, I wonder, do AST-aware tools cleave to the LLM training manifold the way coding-tutorial slop does?