A first-principles guide to Agent Skills: how they work, how to build one with skill-creator, and how they differ from MCP servers.
Stratos Louvaris
Agentic AI Systems Engineer
Production, not demos
Security from day one
Documents what breaks
Stratos Louvaris
Agentic AI Systems Engineer
Production, not demos
Security from day one
Documents what breaks
Blog
July 20, 2026
Running MCP in Production: Where Demos Break and How to Harden It (Part 2 of 2)
What goes wrong when MCP meets real users — context overload, smelly tool descriptions, prompt-injection-as-RCE — and the infrastructure work that prevents it.
May 16, 2026
What MCP Actually Is: Architecture, Primitives, and Why It Exists (Part 1 of 2)
Large language models are brilliant but isolated. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) fixes this by standardizing AI integrations. Just as LSP did for IDEs, MCP lets you write a server once using three primitives, Tools, Resources, and Prompts, so any compliant AI assistant can seamlessly use your
February 24, 2026
11 Advanced RAG Strategies That Separate Demos From Production Systems (Part 3 of 3)
Basic RAG works for demos, but production demands more. Explore 11 advanced strategies, from re-ranking and multi-query to agentic and self-reflective RAG, that solve specific failure modes. Learn how to stack these techniques to build accurate, production-ready AI systems.