MCPs, CLIs, and Skills: Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Agentic Development
Agentic development needs more than one interface: MCPs provide clean, portable connectors to services, with built-in patterns for security and auth. CLIs offer composability, debuggability, and workflows developers already trust. Skills teach agents how to use a wide variety of tools and MCPs effectively without overloading context.
About the Agentic Engineering Track
Agentic Engineering sessions at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco.
When
Thursday, July 2, 2026
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM·20m
Where
Main Stage
Capacity: 4000 attendees
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Speaker
Nikita Kothari
SMTS, Salesforce
Salesforce
Nikita Kothari is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, where she builds AI-driven enterprise solutions that integrate Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI, and intelligent automation to enhance personalization, access, and system trust. With over a decade of experience spanning Salesforce, LinkedIn, and Amazon, she has led transformative projects in AI messaging, recommendation systems, and scalable data synchronization frameworks. Nikita holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas and is passionate about advancing responsible and practical AI applications for modern enterprise ecosystems.