Post is now free: migrating VeraResearch to first-class MCP tool support in Strands.
Running multiple MCP servers caused tool name collisions and a pile of custom wrapper code to manage prefixes and filtering.
This post shows how we deleted that complexity using native MCPClient
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Claude, I'm gonna take that as a yes
I don't understand what you mean by marketplace. This is an open source tool. Free like speech and beer.
Post is now free on how to build audit logging across AI bots using python and AWS cloudwatch.
Agentic bots make many calls per request, so audits get messy fast.
This post shows the simple audit layer we added user identity, question, response, sessionID for easier debugging.
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I think that would be amazing! I don't have good links, other than I see them pop up sometimes in the reddit: www.reddit.com/r/ProjectHai... I've seen some incredible bindings there.
I'm a huge nerd for Andy Weir books, I've read The Martian ~12 times and Hail Mary 3 times. Cannot wait to see this live!!
Anybody else going?
I had an unreasonably fun time with Chandana talking about:
- How to get started to tech
- Programming vs Infra background to DevOps
- The rise of AI in DevOps
- How to excel at work and life in the age of AI instability
It was a great convo, hope you enjoy.
It's not just you, the entire github platform is unstable and crashing right now.
So if we need Claude to write code, and GitHub to store and deploy code, and both have nearly daily issues, like... what the heck do we do now. Is this what software engineering is now?
New post is live on how to add AgentCore Memory to an AWS AgentCore Agentic slack bot, (also Strands tools to permit delete memories, something Strands memory manager doesn't natively support)
This one dives into how to build persistent user memory.
Article is paid but not for you: buff.ly/4VxFHZ7
Just shipped a big update to our open-source AI Slack bot (Vera) on AWS Bedrock AgentCore.
New in the repo:
• Per-user Atlassian OAuth (no shared svc acct)
• Sub-agent delegation
• Matplotlib charts → Slack threads
• Slack file uploads
MIT + Terraform. Deploy it yourself.
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Article is now free!
Having an agentic bot read AWS accounts means working with IAM, and assuming roles cross-account. I did all that, and wrote down how it works. You can use boto3 to assume IAM roles on demand. It's awesome. Check it out.
www.letsdodevops.com/p/teaching-a...
If you’re building agentic Slack bots with AWS, this one dives deep into the AgentCore MCP Gateway and how I’m wiring Vera into PagerDuty, GitHub, Atlassian, Splunk, Azure, and AWS CLI.
I share all code, as well as why.
It's paid, but not for you.
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Oh, so THAT's why my Atlassian/Jira MCP keeps failing.
You can track here: buff.ly/FrnVk2i
I've discovered sub-agents, which can work in parallel on tasks coordinated by a manager AI, and I'm never going back. This is super cool.
This was yesterday. I don't remember having seen github runners limited by capacity. Particularly with the ownership by $MSFT, how can they be limited by capacity?
The article Fixing MCP Tool Name Collisions When Building a Unified CLI Tooling Experience is now free to read on the Day Two DevOps blog.
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Wrote up how we're combining local and remote MCPs on Strands with the AWS AgentCore gateway. Article is coming 2/17!
The code is open source and available now though on github: github/KyMidd/AgentCore_AgenticSlackBot
It's not just you, many github functions are broken right now
I built an entire AWS AgentCore agentic bot for Slack, and you can too. All architecture and code shared. I added memory per user so you can teach the bot how to help you with your job, and how to program.
It's all built with Strands toolkit. Absolutely rad stuff here. More coming soon!
🚀 Now free: Solving enterprise scalability and logging around AWS Bedrock.
If you're running multiple bots or just want better visibility into who’s using what in Bedrock, this pattern helps you get some insight into your AI usage.
Check it out: buff.ly/9rjmMpW
New article is live! It's about how I migrated my Agentic Strands-based bot to use the new first-class MCP Tool interface that Strands just shipped.
It lets the bot register all MCPs concurrently and saves about 10 seconds on each response with lots of MCPs.
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Oh hey, that's pretty cool. Thanks ya'll :D <3
Didn't make it in to #RSA this coming year. I had the best time at RSA previous years. Congratulations to all the folks that did make it in! I'll have to come up with another excuse to see everyone next year :D
I published a new article about building an agentic Slack bot using Strands and AWS Bedrock. It walks through how the bot calls tools, retrieves data from internal systems, and returns useful results to users.
New post: building audit logging for multi platform AI bots with Python and CloudWatch. Bedrock logs were not enough for real audit needs, so we built our own system with consistent usernames and session level correlation across Slack and Teams.
www.letsdodevops.com/p/building-a...
New post: building audit logging for multi platform AI bots with Python and CloudWatch. Bedrock logs were not enough for real audit needs, so we built our own system with consistent usernames and session level correlation across Slack and Teams.
www.letsdodevops.com/p/building-a...
I don't sell Vera, but if I did, this is the type of feedback I'd use to do so :D
All code is public so you can deploy it yourself (for free)
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New post: AWS Strands + MCP, super simple real-world examples.
Strands makes agentic workflows easy — multi-step actions, tool use, and open-source.
I’m sharing small examples as I build them out.
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