Dimitri Tombroff

Beyond Agent Framework Wars: Fred and the Infrastructure Layer

Fred does not compete in the agent framework wars; it focuses on the production infrastructure layer for governed agent execution.

February 21, 2026 by Dimitri Tombroff13 minutes

Durable AI Agents: Orchestrating the Future with Fred and Temporal

Fred extends its existing agentic backend with a Temporal-powered execution path for long-running tasks. Workflows remain resilient through retries, heartbeats, and durable state, while agent contracts and tool boundaries stay explicit and portable.

February 4, 2026 in architecture, ai by Dimitri Tombroff and Simon Cariou6 minutes

RAG That Pulls Its Weight: How Fred’s Retrieval Stack Leveled Up

Fred’s latest release strengthens retrieval: Lucene HNSW with cosine, semantic/hybrid/strict modes, corpus/global scope controls, chunk visibility, and attachment summaries injected into context. This post explains the why and the how.

December 11, 2025 in platform, update by Romain Perennes, Dimitri Tombroff and Simon Cariou5 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

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

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

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

Introducing the New Fred Architecture: Modular, Agentic, and Knowledge-Aware

Fred is now composed of three modular components: a React UI, an agentic backend using LangGraph, and a knowledge-centric backend for document processing. Learn how it all fits together.

May 7, 2025 in architecture, announcement by Kevin Denis, Dorian Finel-Bacha, Julien Ornat, Fabien Le-Solliec and Dimitri Tombroff4 minutes

Playing with Ollama

Running Fred with a local Ollama server

March 7, 2025 in guidance by Emanuel-Todor Hascau-Dumitrelea and Dimitri Tombroff2 minutes