Workshops

Over the past year, model intelligence has skyrocketed, and agent tooling has improved significantly. However, there's still a gap: most AI agents don't have the procedural, domain-specific expertise needed to do real work inside real products, especially in React apps, where a small behaviour change turns into user-facing regressions.

In this workshop, I'll show you how leveraging Agent Skills changes how you build AI features in React: from prompt tweaking to shipping packaged guides, resources and scripts that turn a general-purpose agent into a product-specific one via the Agent Skills protocol (adopted by OpenAI, Anthropic and Cursor). I'll also show a practical way to do this in React apps without changing your current frameworks or LLM, with evals and versioning in place to prevent regressions.

What you’ll build#

You’ll implement a real React/Next.js AI feature (server route/action + UI) and begin with a large prompt and several tools/MCPs. We will use the Vercel AI SDK for a quick start.

Next step, we will refactor it into an Agent Skills-driven design. You’ll intentionally break the feature in realistic ways (output drift, tool misuse, injection attempts) and then harden it using a small Skills pack. Finally, you’ll add versioning + lightweight evals so updates don’t regress your UI.

By the end, you'd have learned not just the basics of building Agentic AI apps, but taken it a step further by making them reliable with Agent Skills.

React teams are on the front line: agent failures become UI failures. This workshop is designed around React realities: typed contracts, predictable component states, safe fallbacks, and preventing “it worked yesterday” incidents, without requiring you to switch frameworks or lock into one LLM/provider.

Key outcomes#

• A working React/Next.js reference project using Agent Skills
• A reusable Skills pack template (think SOPs + scripts + guardrails)
• A working evaluation framework to catch regressions
• A checklist for shipping agent-powered UI features safely

Workshop prerequisites#

• Intermediate React + basic Next.js familiarity (routes/actions helpful)
• Node.js installed; ability to run a repo locally
• No prior “agent framework” knowledge required