.NET Day 2026 AI Your Way: MCPs vs Skills vs SubAgents 🤖🚀

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1. AI Your Way Sam Basu | @samidip | in/isambasu Dev Advocate | Uno Platform
2. Here’s to AI
3. Ethics, Hesitations & Concerns with AI Code is Cheap. Software is Not.
4. AI Evolution
5. DE V EL O PER WO RKF LO WS How We Build Software Code Centric Visual Design AI Enabled Traditional IDE-driven development with manual coding, debugging, and testing workflows Drag-and-drop tools and visual builders for rapid UI prototyping and design-to-code flows AI-assisted code generation and intelligent development powered by AI Agents & Models Tooling, Developer Productivity & Agentic Workflows
6. AI -DE V EL O P ER WO RKF LO WS Tech Stacks Should Serve the Adoption Spectrum ~71% ~12% ~17% AI-Hesitant AI-Adopting Majority AI-Forward Traditional pro-code workflow. Skeptical of AI assistance. Loves open-source frameworks. Incremental AI adoption. Some he sitation with output quality. Senior and Junior developers. Trust AI with full imple me ntation. Use MCPs/Skills and Agentic workflows. S enior/Principal-level developers. Declining Gr owing cautiously Gr owing ← Traditional Pro-Code AI Adoption Spectrum Full AI Implementation →
7. AI Models | Agentic Harness
8. Privacy & Cost Control
9. AI is powerful, But …
10. Context Matters, Big Time
11. Some Pitfalls of AI Models/Agents 01 02 03 AI Hallucinations & over corrections are real AI Models have timestamped knowledge AI Agents often lack App context or best principles 04 05 06 Context Window, Costs & Specializations matter Agentic workflows need to be grounded & validated Enterprises need more confidence with AI tools
12. Model Context Protocol
13. The Future with MCP ❖ No Knowledge boundaries ❖ Specialized Tools for computational Tasks ❖ Bring the Context
14. MCP Architecture ❖ Solid specs & lots of SDKs ❖ Division of labor – Host | Client | Server ❖ Transport options – StdIO | HTTP with SSE | JSon RPC
15. Skills, SubAgents & Instructions
16. Food Industry Simile AI Agent = Chef MCP Tools = Raw Ingredients Skills = Recipe Cards SubAgents = Sous Chef Loops = Door Watcher Developer = Restaurant Owner You run the show. .
18. UNO PL ATF O RM The Foundational Stack
19. UNO PL ATF O RM STU DIO Ultimate Developer Productivity MCP Tools MCP Servers grounded in Docs and App Interactivity tools for agentic workflows Hot Design w/ Hot Reload Design to Code Runtime visual designer and Hot Reload for rapid UI building directly in running app with real data Seamless Figma-to-code pipeline that converts visual designs into cross-platform App UI
20. V ER TICAL LY INT EGR ATE D STACK Tooling from Start to End Docs MCP Hot Design App MCP Start with AI Tools Any OS, IDE or Agent Design to-Code Hot Reload Unified Rendering Develop Visually Uno Check Run Fast Verify with MCPs Develop Efficiently Setup Easily Template Wizard Native Applications Markup State Management Extensions UI Controls Themes Deploy Quickly Uno.WinRT App Packaging Continuous Integration (CI)
21. UNO PL ATF O RM STU DIO APP Hello Studio Agent from Browser Specialized Agent Skills | MCP Tools | Agentic loops No IDE/CLI to install Start from prompt | Iterate visually in browser Full .NET output Cross-platform project code | Export when ready Continuity of Experience Studio App works on Desktop, Web & Mobile
22. UNO PL ATF O RM STU DIO Enabling Agentic Workflows Previews Snippets Agent & MCP Skills & Plugins Preview and validate UI components in isolation, across states, themes, data contexts & breakpoints Drag, drop and customize responsive UI building blocks to speed up screen design Specialized Harness and MCP Tools for Hot Testing & performance tuning with AI Agents Prescriptive Uno Platform guidance and modular instructions for inspired Agentic workflows
23. Seeing is Believing …
24. Contextual Tools | Agentic Workflows
25. AI Tooling in Dev Workflows ❑ Skills or Sub-Agents ❑ What MCP Tools help ❑ IDE or Editor or CLI ❑ Multi-Agent Orchestration ❑ Pitch Agents against each other Developers: You run the show.
26. Here’s to Contextual AI that boosts Productivity Embrace At Your Own Pace
28. Thank You! AI Your Way Let’s Keep Chatting | @samidip Try Uno Platform https://platform.uno/