Agents

Playgrounds of the Mind: Changing the Agentic Ops Trust Paradigm

Playgrounds of the Mind: Changing the Agentic Ops Trust Paradigm

Why the sandbox 'straightjacket' approach to securing AI ops agents is fundamentally flawed, and what a 'playground' paradigm—autonomy within bounded infrastructure, vetted workflows, oversight, and greylisted boundaries—looks like instead.

Randy Bias

How Model Context Protocol (MCP) Changes AIOps

How Model Context Protocol (MCP) Changes AIOps

A proof of concept, Nightcrier, for an automated triage system that receives events via MCP and general-purpose AI agents to investigate Kubernetes failures in near real-time using a combination of Agent Skills, MCP servers, and native APIs.

Randy Bias

Today's General Purpose Agents Don't Understand Ops

Today's General Purpose Agents Don't Understand Ops

A quick look at why today's general purpose agents like Claude and Codex are over-indexed on code development and how to change it.

Randy Bias

Anthropic Releases Agent Skills to Public Domain

Anthropic Releases Agent Skills to Public Domain

Anthropic releases Agent Skills as an open standard: turning general-purpose agents into AIOps and Kubernetes triage assistants with repeatable, safer workflows.

Randy Bias

Troubleshooting Kubernetes with AI Agents

Troubleshooting Kubernetes with AI Agents

Using Claude Skills and an operator-in-the-loop pattern to triage production Kubernetes outages with general-purpose agents

Randy Bias