Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What if your MCP server shipped with its own manual? Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation, joins William and Eyvonne to break down the Skills Over MCP working group effort, which delivers Agent Skills through MCP's existing resources primitive (think voice over IP, not skills versus MCP).
Angie shares her career path, from picking the first college course with "computer" in the name to becoming an IBM Master Inventor with 25+ patents, how Test Automation University put free education in front of 100,000 engineers, and how the 1/9/90 rule drove AI enablement across Block's 3,500-person engineering org.
The conversation also covers the foundation's role as a neutral home for MCP, goose, AGENTS.md, and agentgateway, the stateless MCP release shipping in July 2026, why roots, sampling, and logging are being deprecated, and knowing when deterministic code beats an agent.
Links:
Skills Over MCP (the blog that sparked the episode) - aaif.io/blog/skills-over-mcp
MCP Is Growing Up - aaif.io/blog/mcp-is-growing-up
Skills extension proposal (SEP-2640) - github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2640
Agentic AI Foundation - aaif.io
Build Systems, Not Code (Angie's AI Engineer talk) - youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9-4fW2HhM
goose - github.com/block/goose
AGENTS.md - https://agents.md/
Test Automation University - testautomationu.applitools.com
Angie's site (blog, socials, talks) - https://angiejones.tech/
Angie on X - twitter.com/techgirl1908
Angie on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/angiejones
The Cloud Gambit is part of the Packet Pushers network. Visit our website to find more great networking and technology podcasts, along with tutorial videos, the Human Infrastructure newsletter, and loads more resources for building your IT career. packetpushers.net
What if your MCP server shipped with its own manual? Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation, joins William and Eyvonne to break down the Skills Over MCP working group effort, which delivers Agent Skills through MCP's existing resources primitive (think voice over IP, not skills versus MCP).
Angie shares her career path, from picking the first college course with "computer" in the name to becoming an IBM Master Inventor with 25+ patents, how Test Automation University put free education in front of 100,000 engineers, and how the 1/9/90 rule drove AI enablement across Block's 3,500-person engineering org.
The conversation also covers the foundation's role as a neutral home for MCP, goose, AGENTS.md, and agentgateway, the stateless MCP release shipping in July 2026, why roots, sampling, and logging are being deprecated, and knowing when deterministic code beats an agent.
Links:
Skills Over MCP (the blog that sparked the episode) - aaif.io/blog/skills-over-mcp
MCP Is Growing Up - aaif.io/blog/mcp-is-growing-up
Skills extension proposal (SEP-2640) - github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2640
Agentic AI Foundation - aaif.io
Build Systems, Not Code (Angie's AI Engineer talk) - youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9-4fW2HhM
goose - github.com/block/goose
AGENTS.md - https://agents.md/
Test Automation University - testautomationu.applitools.com
Angie's site (blog, socials, talks) - https://angiejones.tech/
Angie on X - twitter.com/techgirl1908
Angie on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/angiejones
The Cloud Gambit is part of the Packet Pushers network. Visit our website to find more great networking and technology podcasts, along with tutorial videos, the Human Infrastructure newsletter, and loads more resources for building your IT career. packetpushers.net
