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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 19h

Spring AI Modular RAG + TypeSafe AI Jev 🧩 LLMs rewrite and expand the query. Vector search finds 6 chunks. #Jev keeps the 2 that actually answer it. 📝 Blog: spring.io/blog/2026/10... 🎤 At @devoxx.com next week? Join my deep dive: m.devoxx.com/events/dvbe2... #RAG #Java #SpringAI

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚀 Spring AI TypeSafe 0.3.0 (@typesafeai Jev) now supports local engines too: the same client works with the Ollama and Laya #SystemOne endpoints: - Ollama: spring-ai-community.github.io/spring-ai-ty... - Laya: spring-ai-community.github.io/spring-ai-ty... github.com/spring-ai-co...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Java SDK + Spring AI integrations for #TypeSafe AI's #Jev. Not a chat model! Send it a state and typed questions, get numbers back with a confidence, in ~300 ms. Judge, self-refine + guardrail advisors, RAG triage, tool selection. Blog: spring.io/blog/2026/09... @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Spring AI @spring-ai.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spring AI 2.0.1 is live 🎉 First maintenance release since 2.0 GA - 80+ issues/PRs, 7 CVEs, and some frequently-requested features landed: configurable tool call limits, OpenAI audio streaming, Google GenAI image generation, and a big round of streaming/tool-calling fixes. spring.io/blog/2026/08...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Honored to join the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Ambassador cohort. AAIF is the home of AI projects, including the MCP. As one of the MCP Java SDK maintainers and Spring AI lead, I'm looking forward to seeing more developers bring AI into the Java and Spring ecosystem www.credly.com/badges/a2dfe...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

LLMs: text-in, text-out. Enterprise code: structured-in, structured-out. #SpringAI 2.0 adds two switches on .entity(): • validateSchema() — retries with the error fed back • useProviderStructuredOutput() — pins the schema at the provider spring.io/blog/2026/06... #Java #AI #StructuredOutput

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You could call tools. You couldn't build on top of tool calling! #SpringAI 2.0 lifts the tool loop out of the chat models and into the advisor chain - composable, observable, replaceable: spring.io/blog/2026/06... #Java #AI #MCP

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Spring I/O @springio.net · 27/05/2026

🍃 From Assistants to Agents: Self-Improving Agentic Systems with Spring AI by @tzolov.bsky.social @ Spring I/O 2026 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/_ZZuzakjgxQ #springio26

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From Assistants to Agents: Self-Improving Agentic Systems with Spring AI by Christian Tzolov

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Adam Dudczak @adamdudczak.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

What a discussion! It was a pleasure to moderate AI panel at @geecon.bsky.social Thank you @dylanbeatt.ie @tzolov.bsky.social @askowronski.bsky.social and @fmartin.ch hope that we manage to tackle a least a few important questions 😀

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Excited to be speaking today at #GeeCON 2026! 🎉 📅 15:10 - Building Self-Correcting AI Agents AI agents are relentless context orchestrators - and the Advisor Pattern is all you need to compose them 🌱 #SpringAI #AI #Java 2026.geecon.org/schedule/

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

2nd talk at @springio.net today 🌱 — One abstraction rules them all 💍 The Advisor pattern is all you need for any Agentic Harness — Tool Calling, Memory, RAG, Guardrails, LLM-as-a-Judge & more. Self-Improving Agentic Systems with #SpringAI 📅 14:30–15:20 · Track 2 2026.springio.net/sessions/fro...

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Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr · 14/04/2026

@tzolov.bsky.social introduces the @spring-ai.bsky.social roadmap at Spring I/O keynote! 🧵 #spring #java #springio26

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

File-based long-term memory for #SpringAI agents - no vector store, no database, just files. Plain Markdown files, MEMORY index, the agent manages it all via tool calls. Claude auto-memory compatible but portable to any LLM provider. 📖 spring.io/blog/2026/04... #Java #AI

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Joris Kuipers @joris.kuipe.rs · 01/04/2026

Spring-AI deep-dive by @tzolov.bsky.social at #vdams26. Fast-paced with lots of info, at the same time slowly building up to show how all features are based on a small nr of core principles and techniques, very nice!

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Prepping slides & demos for my Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026 deep dive tomorrow Packing in Memory, Advisors, RAG, Tool Calling & MCP, Agentic Patterns, A2A & ACP, LLM-as-a-Judge, Guardrails… and somehow fitting it all into 2 hours! See you there 👉 amsterdam.voxxeddays.com/talk/?id=12905

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CrAIg Walls @habuma.com · 18/03/2026

Spring AI 2.0.0-M3 is now available and with it comes the ability to set metadata for tools and resources. And that makes MCP Apps possible. Read about how I’ve been tinkering with MCP Apps and how to blend AI chat with traditional UI design at spring.io/blog/2026/03...

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Blending Chat with Rich UIs with Spring AI and MCP Apps

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🚀 Speaking at @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com — April 1–2! "Spring AI: From Fundamentals to Agentic Patterns" — a hands-on deep dive into context window curation, RAG, MCP, subagent orchestration, and LLM-as-a-Judge. All in Java. 🎟️ amsterdam.voxxeddays.com/talk/?id=12905 #SpringAI #Java #Agentic #AI

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Java is #AI infrastructure front-runner ⚡ Benchmark of MCP server implementations across 4 major languages puts #MCP #Java & #SpringAI at the top of the performance charts: sub-ms latency, highest throughput, and the best CPU efficiency 📖 www.tmdevlab.com/mcp-server-p...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Subagent Orchestration delegate tasks to focused subagents with isolated contexts and run in parallel #SpringAI TaskTool provides a portable, model-agnostic implementation inspired by Claude Code's subagents 📖 spring.io/blog/2026/01... @spring-ai.bsky.social #AI #Java #Agents

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Spring AI @spring-ai.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

🚀 Spring AI 2.0.0-M2 is here! ✨ Highlights: - Anthropic Custom Skills support, - Null-safe API with JSpecify, - New vector stores: S3, Infinispan, Bedrock KB, - Redis Semantic Cache, - Structured outputs for Mistral AI & Ollama, - MCP SDK 0.17.2 and bug fixes spring.io/blog/2026/01...

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Spring AI 2.0.0-M2 Available Now

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

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Thomas Vitale ☀️ @thomasvitale.com · 21/01/2026

Tomorrow, I’ll have the privilege to kick off the jChampions Conference, a free online event with sessions presented by Java Champions ☕️ I’ll talk about Modular RAG with Spring AI, Arconia, and Docling at 3:00 pm CET 🍃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcB4... Schedule: jchampionsconf.com/schedule.html

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Modular RAG Architectures with Java and Spring AI

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#SpringAI is among the official adopters of the Agent Skills specification: agentskills.io It is nice to see a Java toolkit next to Claude, Cursor, Gemini, GitHub... Find more about the Spring AI Skills integration: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #Java #AI @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

If AI agent drops steps on complex tasks, add TodoWriteTool-a #SpringAI tool that enables LLMs to create, track, and update task lists during execution. It transforms implicit planning into explicit, trackable workflows. 📖Blog: spring.io/blog/2026/01... #Java #AI

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

#SpringAI AskUserQuestionTool - AI agents that ask clarifying questions before answering, gather requirements interactively, and create a specification aligned with your actual needs 📖Blog: spring.io/blog/2026/01... #AI #Java #Agent @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Bringing Agent Skills to Java and #SpringAI 🚀 Modular, reusable capabilities for your AI agents -discovered at startup, loaded on demand. Portable across any LLM. Inspired by & compatible with Claude Code Skills. Part 1 of the Agentic Patterns series: spring.io/blog/2026/01... @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

🎉As 2025 comes to a close, I'm taking a moment to reflect on an extraordinary year of innovation with Spring AI - From MCP integration to agents, explainable AI, token optimization, ... Read the full story 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-y...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🤖 Building AI agents? You can capture WHY the LLM makes decisions—not just what it decides. #SpringAI's Tool Argument Augmenter captures LLM reasoning alongside tool calls—useful for building memory-enhanced agents. No tool modifications needed! 📖 spring.io/blog/2025/12...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

#SpringAI Tool Search Tool - Build smarter AI apps that discover tools when they need them 📖 Blog: spring.io/blog/2025/12... 🔗 GitHub: github.com/spring-ai-community/spring-ai-tool-search-tool ✅ On-demand tool discovery ✅ Multiple LLMs ✅ 34-64% token savings @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

JSON is the go-to format for LLM tool responses, but alternatives like TOON, XML, CSV, YAML can potentially improve token efficiency and performance. Find how to configure #SpringAI tool responses formats and optimize for your use case: spring.io/blog/2025/11... @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🚀 Spring AI 1.1.0 GA Released 🔧 Better MCP Integration ... 🔐MCP OAuth2 server protection 🔄 Recursive Advisors ...📦 Developer Experience: ... Over 850+ commits Kudos to the entire Spring AI community! 🙌 Find more: spring.io/blog/2025/11... @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🤖⚖️ LLM-as-a-Judge with #SpringAI Evaluating LLM output is challenging. Traditional metrics fall short, and human evaluation doesn't scale. LLM-as-a-Judge uses LLMs to evaluate AI-generated content, matching human judgment 📖 spring.io/blog/2025/11... 🛠️ github.com/spring-proje...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Self-Improving AI Agents with #SpringAI Recursive Advisors - enabling iterative AI workflows that can loop, validate and retry until goals are achieved Think of observable tool calling, evaluations, validation... agentic loops. Find more: spring.io/blog/2025/11...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Excited to be speaking at @vaadin.com Create 2025! 🚀 📅 Day 1: "Spring AI & MCP for all things AI" talk 🔧 Day 2: Hands-on lab with @marcushellberg.dev Discover how JVM rules the AI world! vaadin.com/vaadin-creat... @spring-ai.bsky.social #MCP

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Excited to be speaking at @devoxx.com with @chemicl.bsky.social 🎉 We'll be diving into #MCP Java SDK and #SpringAI hands-on, showing you how to build AI apps that actually know what's going on around them. More details: m.devoxx.com/events/dvbe2...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#SpringAI (1.1.0-SNAPSHOT) & MCP Java SDK, makes #MCP Server development a breeze! Inspired by the FastMCP Context, it brings fluent APIs for logging, progress notifications, client elicitation, LLM sampling and more ...💡 @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

At the MCP Dev Summit keynote, David Soria Parra (MCP co-creator) called out the MCP Java SDK - "really really popular"! Grateful to be part of it. Shoutout to @thedsp.bsky.social and the #MCP & @spring-ai.bsky.social communities for building something special together! 💚

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Connect Your #AI to Everything with #SpringAI's new #MCP Boot Starters and Java Annotations. This intro blog demonstrates building both MCP Servers and Clients, showcasing basic and advanced MCP features 👉 spring.io/blog/2025/09... @spring-ai.bsky.social

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Connect Your AI to Everything: Spring AI's MCP Boot Starters

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Excited to present at @ai4devs.bsky.social Amsterdam this Friday, September 19th! I'll be sharing the latest Spring AI and MCP (Model Context Protocol) advancements for Java developers: amsterdam.ai4devs.io/speakers/chr...

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Spring I/O @springio.net · 01/09/2025

🍃 From Single-Shot LLMs to Intelligent Agents: Building Scalable AI Systems with Spring AI and MCP by @tzolov.bsky.social @ Spring I/O 2025 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/l38CPjOYsHk 🔗 Slides: 2025.springio.net/slides/from-... 🛠️Repo: github.com/spring-proje... #springio25

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From Single-Shot LLMs to Intelligent Agents: Building Scalable AI Systems with Spring AI and MCP

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Spring AI @spring-ai.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Spring AI 1.1.0-M1 is here! Featuring: • Comprehensive MCP integration including the support for Streamable HTTP client & server transports • New MCP annotations framework • Google GenAI SDK integration • Anthropic Claude prompt caching and more spring.io/blog/2025/09...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Speaking at @springio.net on May 23 about building Agentic systems with LLMs, Tools & MCP! Details: 2025.springio.net/sessions/fro...

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Spring AI 1.0.0-RC1 and MCP Java SDK 0.10.0 just released! 🚀 Check release notes: - Spring AI: spring.io/blog/2025/05/13/spring-ai-1-0-0-RC1-released - MCP Java SDK: github.com/modelcontextprotocol/java-sdk/releases/tag/v0.10.0 #SpringAI #MCP

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

#SpringAI supports dynamic tool updates via #MCP! Add, remove & modify tools at runtime without restarting your app or server. Build adaptive AI systems that evolve with your needs. 📘 Blog: spring.io/blog/2025/05... 💻 Code: github.com/spring-proje...

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Stephan Janssen @stephanjanssen.be · 11/04/2025

Just released a 100% Java GitHub #MCP using #SpringAI @ github.com/stephanj/Git... You can now chat with your GitHub projects, search project files, commits etc. #Enjoy

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Building AI Agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP) - my @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com talk about how #SpringAI - #MCP standardizes tool integration, resource management, and prompt handling for building AI apps and agents youtu.be/oSGVQIZxi7s

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Building AI Agents with Model Context Protocol: From Specification to Implementation

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Prompt Engineering in Java: #SpringAI turns Google's Prompt Engineering Guide into code. Implements zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought & more in our new blog post: spring.io/blog/2025/04... #Java #PromptEngineering #SpringAI

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