Thomas Thornton Blog

Agent skills are a practical way to capture reusable engineering judgement for AI coding agents, whether that judgement relates to reviewing Terraform, creating architecture diagrams, writing API Management policies, checking pull requests or following a migration approach. A skill does not guarantee a correct answer, and it should not be treated as a shortcut around engineer...

I’ve been using HolmesGPT lately and wanted to put together a quick demo using Azure AI Foundry. The setup is deliberately simple: The whole thing takes about five minutes, and you end up with an AI agent diagnosing a real Kubernetes scheduling problem instead of just summarising logs. In this post, I’ll show how to: You’ll need: I used an Azure OpenAI…

A , , custom instruction file, or MCP configuration can affect how an agent reads a repository, calls tools, writes code, updates infrastructure, or explains a design. These files may look like documentation, but once an agent uses them to make decisions, they sit inside the trust boundary. With all this, you could potentially be introducing a new supply-chain surface area. T...