Tobin South
@TobinSouth
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Big MCP guy—AI Agents @WorkOS, Research Fellow @Stanford, and 🇦🇺🕺🏃 Prev: PhD @MIT, VC @E14fund
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Joined June 2014
Gave a talk on AI agents tooling on Monday. By Thursday, it was historical fiction. Great fun talking @Stanford, @openid, and @idworkshop. More stuff is coming!
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I'm a lazy LLM user and don't type more than 5 words per task. MCP prompts are actually super useful for me—you can essentially just pre-write high-quality prompts to make your life easy.
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Huge thanks to @WorkOS for helping make it happen and to everyone who came through! . A wildly incomplete list of new mates:.@jacksbridger @dylanlp_ @Infoxicador @igormipt @rachelnabors @MarroSamuele (London is such a LinkedIn > Twitter city).
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🇬🇧 Great AI vibes in London—got together an incredible crew of builders and hackers working on AI dev tools and infra for drinks. Everyone’s building something cool.
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@inxoy_ And the fantastic @pivotal_org community who are hosting the best AI governance thinkers in London.
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Agent security in London! Very fun to do a workshop on agent & LM security, verifiability, and governance at @LondonSafeAI 🇬🇧🤖
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RT @grinich: Did you miss MCP Night?. Here's the full recording including. @Cloudflare — @kyliestew.@Knocklabs — @cjbell_.@BrowserBase — @p….
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In 1856, Australia invented the secret ballot we use today. We have mandatory voting and got universal suffrage earlier than most. Now, we banned political donations. It's good to see democratic systems evolving across time as the world changes.
#BREAKING 🚨 South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas announces he will seek to BAN ALL political donations. “Political donations are OUT”. Watch 6 News live now: #6NewsAU |
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Wanna chat about how we redesign identity for the agent decade ahead?. Just co-chaired the first meeting of the AI Identity Management Group for the OpenID Foundation today. DM me if anyone wants to join the next one!.
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Sometimes I see an ad, pause, and think to myself, ‘what did I do to end up in this targeting segment?’
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please stop I can't take any more protocols.
After MCP, A2A, & AG-UI, there's another Agent protocol (open-source). ACP (Agent Communication Protocol) is a standardized, RESTful interface for Agents to discover and coordinate with other Agents, regardless of their framework (CrewAI, LangChain, etc.). Here's how it works:
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Who's in London next week and would want to come along to an MCP event?.
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"Building High Quality Automations" is such a big unlock for vibe-coded side projects.
I haven't written a blog post in 11 years, but the recent experience of building a complete macOS app with AI has me so optimistic about the future of software development that I had to share more about the process.
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