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From SQL to Agent: Smart Database Access in Fred
What started with CSV ingestion has grown into full SQL integration. With Fred’s new SQLTableStore, you can query, update, and enrich your databases naturally through agents like Tessa.
August 20, 2025 in agents, data, sql by Thomas Hedan3 minutes
Brontë: A New Content Generator Agent in Fred
Instead of relying on traditional form-based UIs, Brontë guides users step by step in designing complex templates and prompts, ensuring correct formats and properties, and saving them directly to Fred’s knowledge base using MCP.
August 18, 2025 in agents, content, automation by Simon Cariou4 minutes
MCP vs REST for RAG in Fred: Why We Run Both
Fred uses REST for graph-driven RAG (Rico, Rico Pro) and MCP for tool-driven RAG (Dominic). Running both lets us measure latency, reliability, governance, and developer ergonomics—without changing our UI or schemas.
August 17, 2025 in architecture, agents, rag by Thomas Hedan, Simon Cariou, Alban Capitant and Dimitri Tombroff4 minutes
Rico Learns to Reflect: Smarter Document Q&A with Self-RAG Techniques
Rico, the document expert agent in Fred, now leverages Self-RAG-inspired strategies to assess document quality, retry with smarter queries, and generate more accurate answers. This post explains the improvements.
August 5, 2025 in agents, update by Romain Perennes4 minutes
Ingest Smarter, Not Harder — Fred Gets a Temporal Brain
Thanks to Temporal, Fred makes document ingestion as reliable as microservices — with automatic retries, fine-grained observability, and custom pipelines for push or pull ingestion. A true game-changer for AI apps.
July 20, 2025 in architecture, ops, orchestration by Alban Capitant, Simon Cariou, Florian Muller and Dimitri Tombroff5 minutes
Bridging the Dev DevOps Gap with AI Deployment Review
Instead of relying on fragile regex scripts or complex linters, Fred uses AI to catch mismatches between backend code and Helm deployments. This makes deployment safer and helps teams move faster.
July 14, 2025 in devops, configuration-management, ai-review by Dimitri Tombroff4 minutes
From CSV to Agent: Tabular Data Gets Smart in Fred
Fred now supports agentic access to tabular data like CSV and Excel through a new DuckDB-based backend and the Tessa agent. Explore how this works and what it unlocks.
July 11, 2025 in data, agents by Thomas Hedan4 minutes
Using AI to Enforce Code Quality in Fred
We use GPT-4 internally to automate Python code reviews and ensure compliance with Fred's backend development standards. Learn how our AI review tool works and why it matters.
June 20, 2025 in devops, configuration-management, ai-review by Dimitri Tombroff5 minutes
Power-Aware Kubernetes with MCP and Kepler
Fred can now observe power and energy usage in Kubernetes via MCP and Kepler. This post walks through the setup and shows example visualizations and insights.
June 2, 2025 in kubernetes, observability by Simon Cariou3 minutes
Expanding Fred with MCP: A Playground for Next-Gen Agentic Architectures
Fred is now capable of serving and consuming components over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Discover how this unlocks new architectures and makes Fred a live testbed for building interoperable AI agents.
May 19, 2025 in architecture, mcp, open-source by Simon Cariou, Alban Capitant and Dimitri Tombroff6 minutes