Simon Cariou

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

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

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