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| Blog | https://LetsDoDevOps.com |
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 prefix + tool_filters + ToolProvider support, reducing maintenance and simplifying the agent.
https://www.letsdodevops.com/p/migrating-veraresearch-to-first-class
Post is now free on how to build audit logging across AI bots using python and AWS cloudwatch.
Agentic bots make dozens of calls per question, so audits get messy fast.
This post shows the simple audit layer we added user identity, question, response, sessionID for easier debugging.
https://www.letsdodevops.com/p/building-audit-logging-for-multi
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
- Whether to learn big projects like Kubernetes (and how to approach them)
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, (and also some Strands tools to permit users to delete memories, something Strands memory manager doesn't natively support)
This one dives into how we built persistent, per-user memory into Vera using AgentCore.
- Short-term events vs long-term records
- Per-user namespaces
- Session ID vs actor ID
Article is paid but not for you: https://www.letsdodevops.com/p/1e1b4c9b-27fc-4de2-a9ff-99f863bb595d
Code is MIT open source:
https://github.com/KyMidd/AgentCore_AgenticSlackBot
Just shipped a big update to our open-source AI Slack bot (Vera), built on AWS Bedrock AgentCore.
New in the public repo:
- Per-user Atlassian OAuth
- Sub-agent delegation
- Chart generation
- File attachments
It's all terraform and open source (MIT license) so you can deploy and use it yourself.
>github.com/KyMidd/AgentCore_AgenticSlackBot
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.
https://www.letsdodevops.com/p/teaching-agentic-strands-agents-to
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 looks like that, in this article.
It's paid, but not for you. Paywall bypass link: https://www.letsdodevops.com/p/547c1a79-db5e-4de0-96cd-97faf2629e52
