MCPs, CLIs, and Skills: Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Agentic Development
Nikita Kothari
- When
- Thursday, July 211:10 AM – 11:30 AM · 20 min
- Where
- Main StageSan Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
Agentic development needs more than one interface: MCPs provide clean, portable connectors to services, with built-in patterns for security and auth. CLIs offer composability, debuggability, and workflows developers already trust. Skills teach agents how to use a wide variety of tools and MCPs effectively without overloading context.
Speaker
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
Nikita Kothari is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, where she builds AI-driven enterprise solutions that integrate Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI, and intelligent automation to enhance personalization, access, and system trust. With over a decade of experience spanning Salesforce, LinkedIn, and Amazon, she has led transformative projects in AI messaging, recommendation systems, and scalable data synchronization frameworks. Nikita holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas and is passionate about advancing responsible and practical AI applications for modern enterprise ecosystems.
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For developers: this programme is open data — JSON, iCal, schedule XML and an MCP endpoint.Show endpointsHide
- JSONEvery published session and speaker, in one request./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.json
- iCalSubscribe in Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.ics
- Schedule XMLfrab / pentabarf — the format conference apps import./aie-worldsfair-2026-import/feed.xml
- MCP + RESTPoint Claude at the programme. OpenAPI 3.1 included./agents
No key, no signup, CORS open. Everything here is generated from the same data the organisers edit.