I'm presenting at DrupalCamp NJ this year! My session is called "Claude Skills and MCP for Drupal Development," and it's about how we've been using AI at Zivtech — not in the vague "AI is transforming everything" sense, but in the specific, practical, day-to-day sense. Skills that encode our coding standards. MCPs that connect to Jira, Drupal.org, and our local lando/DDEV environments. The kind of setup that lets a non-developer like me build Drupal modules, run site and code audits, and contribute patches to open source projects.
I've been doing this work across both of my businesses — Zivtech and Milk Jawn (my incredible wife's ice cream company, which I help with), for those who haven't heard me talk about it yet). The interesting thing is that skills aren't just for development. We've built them for writing style guides, shift planning, financial planning, and client business rules. Once you start thinking of AI as something you can teach rather than something you prompt, the applications get a lot wider.
The session covers three things: what skills and MCPs are, real examples from how we use them, and how to build your own. I'll also give a preview of Joyus AI — the open source platform we're building for managing AI agents and skills across teams. (We just open sourced it last night, and I'll be talking a lot more about it in the days to come.) Because individual skills are easy to build. Managing them across an organization, with guardrails, is the harder problem — and that's what Joyus is for.
If you're in the Drupal world and thinking about how AI fits into your workflow, this session is aimed at you. No prior AI tooling experience needed.
See you in/at Princeton.
https://www.drupalcampnj.org/session/claude-skills-and-mcp-drupal-development