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Agent Skills in Antigravity: How to Extend Your AI Capabilities

Agent Skills in Antigravity: How to Extend Your AI Capabilities

by Stephen Thomas | Feb 20, 2026 | Azure Integration Thoughts, Videos

The landscape of AI development is shifting from monolithic system instructions to modular, reusable capabilities. Recently, Anthropic introduced Agent Skills, an open-source standard designed to give AI agents focused, efficient tools without the overhead of complex...
Why Kimi K2.5 is the Most Cost-Effective Multimodal Model for Developers

Why Kimi K2.5 is the Most Cost-Effective Multimodal Model for Developers

by Stephen Thomas | Feb 18, 2026 | Azure Integration Thoughts, Videos

As a technology architect and independent consultant, I’m always looking for tools that offer great performance at a fair price. In my recent exploration, I examined Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5. I believe it’s the most cost-effective multimodal model available for...
How to Build Your First Agent Skill in VS Code

How to Build Your First Agent Skill in VS Code

by Stephen Thomas | Feb 10, 2026 | Azure Integration Thoughts, Videos

I’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with different ways to extend AI agents—system prompts, MCP servers, tool definitions—and they all work, but they don’t scale cleanly. Agent Skills finally feel like the right abstraction. Agent Skills are an open standard...
Using MCP Servers with Azure Logic App Agent Loops

Using MCP Servers with Azure Logic App Agent Loops

by Stephen Thomas | Feb 1, 2026 | Azure Integration Thoughts, Videos

I’ve been building conversational agents with Azure Logic App Agent Loops since the feature first landed. Early on, the biggest limitation was how tightly tools were coupled to individual agents. Every tool lived inside the agent loop, which meant duplication, harder...
Getting Started with Open-Source GLM-4 Image API

Getting Started with Open-Source GLM-4 Image API

by Stephen Thomas | Feb 1, 2026 | Azure Integration Thoughts, Videos

When selecting an AI image model for your application, you are usually forced to choose between quality and control. Proprietary models offer great images but lock you into their cloud. Open-source models offer control but can be a headache to host and quality is not...
Azure Service Bus Topics Explained

Azure Service Bus Topics Explained

by Stephen Thomas | Jan 17, 2026 | Azure Integration Thoughts, Videos

When I need flexible message routing in Azure without duplicating infrastructure, Azure Service Bus Topics are usually my first choice. They solve a very specific problem: letting multiple consumers react differently to the same message without forcing the publisher...
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