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INTERMEDIATE

Exquisite Evals for Skills & MCPs

The speaker built the javadocs.dev MCP server to give Java, Kotlin, and Scala agents efficient library documentation access. They created a custom eval framework showing it is up to 5x more token-efficient and more accurate than base models or web search. The session shares best practices for effective evals.

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Christian Tzolov
Christian TzolovSpring Team
James Ward
James WardAWS

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Tuesday, October 6, 18:20-18:50
TBA 2
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I built the javadocs.dev MCP server to help Java, Kotlin, and Scala developers give their agents more efficient access to documentation for the libraries they use. But until recently I didn't know if it was better than what base models, or base models with web search/fetch, use. I created a custom eval framework to provide verifiable evidence that the javadocs.dev MCP is up to 5x more token efficient than what the standard agents provide and provides correct answers, unlike the base models. This session will share the learned best practices for building and implementing evals that can provide the feedback you need to improve your agent skills & MCPs.
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Christian Tzolov

Christian Tzolov

Spring Team

Netherlands

Christian Tzolov is an R&D Software Engineer on Broadcom's Spring team, where he leads Spring AI and is one of the maintainers of the MCP Java SDK project. He serves as an Ambassador for the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) and focuses on integrating AI with enterprise Java and advancing how developers build intelligent applications.
James Ward

James Ward

AWS

United States of America

Professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. Currently a Developer Advocate for AWS and AAIF Technical Committee member.