JavaOne 2026

JavaOne 2026 Session

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Strategies for AI Agent Augmentation & Integration: Tools, Skills, MCP, and more

Summary

Whether you’ve built your own AI Agent or are using an AI coding agent, the things that give the agent “agency” are the augmentations and integrations provided to it. There are many different strategies and approaches to these integrations: Tools, Agent Skills, MCP, and many others. This session will provide Java-based technical examples of top strategies and the use cases which fit best with each. You will learn how and when to apply these strategies for your own Java agents and when building Java systems with the help of AI code agents.

Profile

Type: Learning Session (50 min)

Track: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Audience Level: Beginner

Speaker: James Ward

Session: Thursday, March 19th at 2:00 PM in Room 203