Last updated: 28 July 2026 I’ve been building out an AI agent, Iron Mind AI, a personal trainer agent, incrementally using the Microsoft Agent Framework. Each post in this series adds a new capability: function…
I have spent a good while now building RAG pipelines across a number of engagements, mostly for documentation sites, and the gap between the tutorials and the reality of production is substantial. This post is…
Keeping up with long-form content is one of the biggest time sinks for developers and knowledge workers. Podcasts, conference talks, and YouTube tutorials are invaluable sources of information, but a 90-minute episode demands 90 minutes…
For the last few months, I have been shipping blogs, code, and videos as part of a FREE and self-published course on the Microsoft Agent Framework. The course is now available on YouTube and is…
If you’ve been following this series, you’ll know we’ve been incrementally building out the Iron Mind AI personal trainer agent. We’ve added function tools, agents as function tools, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, contextual memory, background responses, MCP…
In an earlier post in this series, we built an AI agent that researches the latest AI news and generates a weekly digest newsletter as a local markdown file. I’ve been using that agent personally for…
In earlier posts in this series, we’ve explored how to extend AI agents using function tools, how to compose agents together as function tools, and how to build and debug MCP servers in .NET. In this post, we…
Keeping up with AI news can be a challenge. Every day there’s a new model release, a new framework update, or some announcement that changes the landscape. We find ourselves checking feeds, GitHub repositories, and…
In earlier blog posts we created a personal trainer agent. It featured capabilities to process bookings search for and generate high protein recipes by using function tools and custom service classes. We saw how to…