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Turn Your Agents Into Kafka Experts with Skills. Live from Current London

Most AI agents are generalists that struggle with the nuances of streaming data and Kafka infrastructure, often leading you down a rabbit hole with many tokens spent. In this session, live from Current London, we’ll show you how to close the context gap with Skills for Kafka: structured files that are playbooks and level-ups for agents to handle complex multi-step tasks like reviewing schema changes, critiquing DLQ policies and auditing topics for best practice. We will walk through how these skills work, demonstrate the different ways to use them (including with MCP servers) in Cursor and Claude.

Lenses VS Code Plugin - multi-Kafka DevX & governance within the IDE

Engineering is in the middle of an almighty shift. Thanks to AI code-generation solutions, Engineers are being asked to take on a different and wider set of responsibilities in order to be more productive. It’s what’s increasingly being coined as Agentic Engineering - using AI agents to accelerate engineering & operations work while maintaining human oversight, quality and rigour.

Lenses MCP Server with OAuth 2.1

You can now drive Lenses from Cursor, VS Code, IBM Bob or Claude Code without running any extra piece of infrastructure locally. Lenses MCP offers secure tools across topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, SQL processors, consumer groups, datasets and pod logs: everything an engineer would normally click through in the Lenses UI, now reachable from any MCP-compatible client over HTTP.

Introducing Kafka Skills for AI Engineering Agents

If you've written a line of code in the last 18 months, you already know this. Tools like Claude, Codex, Bob, Kiro and Cursor have made agentic software engineering the default. Most developers today are writing prompts as much as they are writing code. That shift changes what ‘developer experience’ means. Clean UIs, useful tools and good docs are still the foundation but the focus has shifted to ensuring a coding agent actually knows what it is doing, in the hands of a developer.