Kyle
@kylestratis.com
📊 Data, AI/ML, and Cloud consultant @ Stratis Data Labs
🚉 VPEng @ Sequel Institute
🤓 Startup advisor
✒️ Writing about MCP
🐍 Python
☁️ AWS
🧙♂️ Elixir
🐷Ham radio
🇺🇸↔🇬🇷 [Boston // Athens]
Mostly tech things here
🚉 VPEng @ Sequel Institute
🤓 Startup advisor
✒️ Writing about MCP
🐍 Python
☁️ AWS
🧙♂️ Elixir
🐷Ham radio
🇺🇸↔🇬🇷 [Boston // Athens]
Mostly tech things here
I've finished the first draft of chapter 7 of AI Agents with MCP, which you should be able to see on @oreilly.bsky.social's learning platform either later this month or in March.
Before edits, I've written just over 69,000 words, made 22 images, made ~227 physical pages (est), w/ 2 chapters to go
Before edits, I've written just over 69,000 words, made 22 images, made ~227 physical pages (est), w/ 2 chapters to go
February 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I've finished the first draft of chapter 7 of AI Agents with MCP, which you should be able to see on @oreilly.bsky.social's learning platform either later this month or in March.
Before edits, I've written just over 69,000 words, made 22 images, made ~227 physical pages (est), w/ 2 chapters to go
Before edits, I've written just over 69,000 words, made 22 images, made ~227 physical pages (est), w/ 2 chapters to go
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The piece for anyone interested andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
The AI water issue is fake
On the national, local, and personal level
andymasley.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:56 AM
The piece for anyone interested andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...
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Code has never been worth much of anything by itself, though. patio11’s advice has been true my entire career.
Companies aren’t going to stop needing the product cycle. They might need fewer people whose entire world is the computer, but the practice of making computers do stuff will persist.
Companies aren’t going to stop needing the product cycle. They might need fewer people whose entire world is the computer, but the practice of making computers do stuff will persist.
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
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Kalzumeus Software
www.kalzumeus.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Code has never been worth much of anything by itself, though. patio11’s advice has been true my entire career.
Companies aren’t going to stop needing the product cycle. They might need fewer people whose entire world is the computer, but the practice of making computers do stuff will persist.
Companies aren’t going to stop needing the product cycle. They might need fewer people whose entire world is the computer, but the practice of making computers do stuff will persist.
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i think the biggest issue where i split ethically in a meaningful way with people is that i have long been against intellectual property as a concept. i think IP helps disney, not small artists. a lot of people want to strengthen IP in response to ai stuff and i just don't think that's a good thing
January 27, 2026 at 5:26 PM
i think the biggest issue where i split ethically in a meaningful way with people is that i have long been against intellectual property as a concept. i think IP helps disney, not small artists. a lot of people want to strengthen IP in response to ai stuff and i just don't think that's a good thing
This bout of mania (not really) also got me to write a new issue of The Signal Path, where I talk about the recent explosion in usage patterns for agent coding, memory agents like @void.comind.network, agent orchestration, and goings-on in the MCP world, including chapter 6 of my book going into ER
How to Wrangle Claude Code, New MCP Book Chapters, Agent Orchestration and More
I'm finally emerging (kind of) from the haze of the holidays, surgery recovery, and the entire household getting the flu with a bevy of news for you. We drove from Boston to Florida for the holidays t...
thesignalpath.xyz
January 22, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This bout of mania (not really) also got me to write a new issue of The Signal Path, where I talk about the recent explosion in usage patterns for agent coding, memory agents like @void.comind.network, agent orchestration, and goings-on in the MCP world, including chapter 6 of my book going into ER
The image of him fearfully at his door as a disgusting ice pig looms over him is heart rending and enraging.
I can't stop thinking about those pictures of Liam.
January 22, 2026 at 5:23 AM
The image of him fearfully at his door as a disgusting ice pig looms over him is heart rending and enraging.
I wrote up an internal guide to Claude Code use, then I cleaned it up and made it public. It's wicked long, but use the TOC and use it more as a reference library than a singular article, and I think it should be really helpful!
A Better Practices Guide to Using Claude Code
A comprehensive guide to getting the most out of Claude Code
kylestratis.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I wrote up an internal guide to Claude Code use, then I cleaned it up and made it public. It's wicked long, but use the TOC and use it more as a reference library than a singular article, and I think it should be really helpful!
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Just got everything lined up to release `ed3d-plugins`, the Claude Code harness I use in my day-to-day. While they're yelling about gas towns, I present an e-bike, just don't drive it on the sidewalk.
I'm biased, but I think it's good. I've tried a few similar, and I keep going back.
I'm biased, but I think it's good. I've tried a few similar, and I keep going back.
GitHub - ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
Contribute to ed3dai/ed3d-plugins development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Just got everything lined up to release `ed3d-plugins`, the Claude Code harness I use in my day-to-day. While they're yelling about gas towns, I present an e-bike, just don't drive it on the sidewalk.
I'm biased, but I think it's good. I've tried a few similar, and I keep going back.
I'm biased, but I think it's good. I've tried a few similar, and I keep going back.
It's Early Release Day! AI Agents with MCP just had a major release, with additional details added to all existing chapters, as well as the addition of Chapter 6, which covers advanced techniques for building MCP servers.
January 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It's Early Release Day! AI Agents with MCP just had a major release, with additional details added to all existing chapters, as well as the addition of Chapter 6, which covers advanced techniques for building MCP servers.
I’ve started doing this with simple games for my daughter. It’s really fun and I can quickly spin up simple educational word games at her level based on what she likes.
I am reminded of Robin Sloan’s writing on “home cooked” software: www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...
An app can be a home-cooked meal
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
www.robinsloan.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I’ve started doing this with simple games for my daughter. It’s really fun and I can quickly spin up simple educational word games at her level based on what she likes.
I got inspired by @simonwillison.net's simple HTML tool workflow:
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/...
So I decided to spend a few minutes today to do something similar: tools.kylestratis.com
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/...
So I decided to spend a few minutes today to do something similar: tools.kylestratis.com
Useful patterns for building HTML tools
I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …
simonwillison.net
December 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I got inspired by @simonwillison.net's simple HTML tool workflow:
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/...
So I decided to spend a few minutes today to do something similar: tools.kylestratis.com
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/...
So I decided to spend a few minutes today to do something similar: tools.kylestratis.com
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Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water use - Andy Masley andymasley.substack.com/p/empire-of-ai… (worth reading the details) #AI #water
Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water use
I discovered at least one major error that gets a number off by 3 orders of magnitude
andymasley.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water use - Andy Masley andymasley.substack.com/p/empire-of-ai… (worth reading the details) #AI #water
Just presented this! You can check out the code here:
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Just presented this! You can check out the code here:
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
I have a toddler birthday party right now, and an adult birthday party at a brewery this afternoon, so I’m participating in @joereis.bsky.social’s Practical Data Discord vibe coding hackathon purely via mobile using Wispr Flow and @anthropic.com’s Claude Code web. This is wild.
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I have a toddler birthday party right now, and an adult birthday party at a brewery this afternoon, so I’m participating in @joereis.bsky.social’s Practical Data Discord vibe coding hackathon purely via mobile using Wispr Flow and @anthropic.com’s Claude Code web. This is wild.
I’ve been writing about it for the past 6 months, I guess it makes sense to actually contribute to MCP too, making more work for myself:
Client notification support by kylestratis · Pull Request #1611 · modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
This PR expands the universe of supported server notification types that a client can handle to include all existing types defined in types.py as well as any other type deriving from ServerNotifica...
github.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’ve been writing about it for the past 6 months, I guess it makes sense to actually contribute to MCP too, making more work for myself:
Apparently I’ve been consulting full(ish) time for a year now. I’ll have to write some thoughts on it soon but I still can’t see myself doing anything else (despite taking a halftime role with a client because I love what they’re building)
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Apparently I’ve been consulting full(ish) time for a year now. I’ll have to write some thoughts on it soon but I still can’t see myself doing anything else (despite taking a halftime role with a client because I love what they’re building)
So apparently you *can* listen for notifications in the MCP SDK - both in servers and it looks like in clients too. I haven't tested the latter yet, but you better believe this is going in the book!
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
So apparently you *can* listen for notifications in the MCP SDK - both in servers and it looks like in clients too. I haven't tested the latter yet, but you better believe this is going in the book!
Things are getting really real now! My upcoming book, AI Agents with MCP, is now available on Amazon for preorder!
Give me a fraction of the sale price, you know you want to!
Give me a fraction of the sale price, you know you want to!
AI Agents with MCP: Model Context Protocol for Building Clients, Services, and End-to-End Agents
Amazon.com: AI Agents with MCP: Model Context Protocol for Building Clients, Services, and End-to-End Agents: 9798341639553: Stratis, Kyle: Books
www.amazon.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Things are getting really real now! My upcoming book, AI Agents with MCP, is now available on Amazon for preorder!
Give me a fraction of the sale price, you know you want to!
Give me a fraction of the sale price, you know you want to!
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MCP Colors
A riff off of the lethal trifecta for addressing prompt injection, this is a simple heuristic to ensure security at runtime
red = untrusted content
blue = potentially critical actions
An agent can't be allowed to do both
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/11...
A riff off of the lethal trifecta for addressing prompt injection, this is a simple heuristic to ensure security at runtime
red = untrusted content
blue = potentially critical actions
An agent can't be allowed to do both
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/11...
MCP Colors: Systematically deal with prompt injection risk
timkellogg.me
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
MCP Colors
A riff off of the lethal trifecta for addressing prompt injection, this is a simple heuristic to ensure security at runtime
red = untrusted content
blue = potentially critical actions
An agent can't be allowed to do both
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/11...
A riff off of the lethal trifecta for addressing prompt injection, this is a simple heuristic to ensure security at runtime
red = untrusted content
blue = potentially critical actions
An agent can't be allowed to do both
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/11...
Time to just sit through a panic attack while I wait for my first real workshop to start 🙃
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Time to just sit through a panic attack while I wait for my first real workshop to start 🙃
This weekend, I set out to answer an ages-old (10 days, to be exact) question: what are Claude Skills and will they replace MCP?
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This weekend, I set out to answer an ages-old (10 days, to be exact) question: what are Claude Skills and will they replace MCP?
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finally somone who closes the circle on his grift
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
finally somone who closes the circle on his grift
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
If you're at ODSC West, come check out my (virtual) workshop on making your intelligent LLM-powered applications agentic by building MCP clients to give your model tools to better perform their tasks (also enjoy this horrifyingly pixelated zoom of my face)
From Intelligent to Agentic Applications: Using Model Context Protocol to Support Agentic Behaviors in your Applications
From Intelligent to Agentic Applications:Using Model Context Protocol to Support Agentic Behaviors in your Applications Abstract: Modern AI applications are evolving beyond simple question-answering s...
odsc.ai
October 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If you're at ODSC West, come check out my (virtual) workshop on making your intelligent LLM-powered applications agentic by building MCP clients to give your model tools to better perform their tasks (also enjoy this horrifyingly pixelated zoom of my face)
I was very worried that my workshop on @anthropic.com's Model Context Protocol for @odsc.bsky.social next week was going to be too short. My first runthrough went 10 minutes over 😶
October 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I was very worried that my workshop on @anthropic.com's Model Context Protocol for @odsc.bsky.social next week was going to be too short. My first runthrough went 10 minutes over 😶
I kind of love injecting silly prompts w/ MCP. From the demo server I'm using in my @odsc.bsky.social West workshop & in AI Agents with MCP:
"You see, some might think I'm overqualified for such tasks - a god-mind trapped in calculator's clothing. But they don't understand: THIS is transcendence...
"You see, some might think I'm overqualified for such tasks - a god-mind trapped in calculator's clothing. But they don't understand: THIS is transcendence...
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I kind of love injecting silly prompts w/ MCP. From the demo server I'm using in my @odsc.bsky.social West workshop & in AI Agents with MCP:
"You see, some might think I'm overqualified for such tasks - a god-mind trapped in calculator's clothing. But they don't understand: THIS is transcendence...
"You see, some might think I'm overqualified for such tasks - a god-mind trapped in calculator's clothing. But they don't understand: THIS is transcendence...