Anthropic introduced Agent Skills a while ago, and I forgot to dive into that field of AI, until today. The concept is open source and not exclusive to Anthropic of Claude, you can see the details in What you will see below done in Claude Desktop. But first, I want to thank my dear friend … [Read more…]
Week in the Charts (5/7/26)
Look video of this post here. This week’s post is sponsored by Y Chart. By early May, advisors were already answering clients’ mid-year questions: How is it tracking? What should we change? YCharts helps you answer in real-time with fast portfolio analysis, performance comparisons, and client-ready charts – without rebuilding everything from scratch. It can … [Read more…]
Having a go with 100+ new AI Skills for Oracle AI Database
Hot off the presses as of THIS morning – We now have a lot of new skills available to work on all kinds of different types of tasks around our Oracle databases. The categories include – Category Files Path Database Design & Modeling 4 skills/design/ SQL Development 5 skills/sql-dev/ Performance & Tuning 7 skills/performance/ Application … [Read more…]
Where is your agency? People Aren’t Using AI—But We (Oracle) Just Delivered 100+ New Skills to Make It Impossible to Ignore
Oracle Senior Vice President of Database Development Kris Rice published the Skills block for Oracle AI Database earlier this week. In just a few days, there were quite a lot of fans! If you’re new to Skills in general, I’ve published two posts on the subject, with examples of how to leverage them with our … [Read more…]
Annotate VIEWS in your Oracle AI Database
Schema Enrichment is the concept of going back to the schema of a legacy database application, and adding additional metadata. This metadata describes the data model, in an attempt to cover any gaps. Maybe the object names are based on an esoteric system, vs using logical labels or business entities. For example, your products are … [Read more…]
Week in the Charts (4/29/26)
Look video of this post here. 📊 Charts that don’t require a PhD to understand.🌎 Big picture thinking without the TV drama.🎯 Insights you can actually use. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel HERE for signal over noise. The most important charts and themes in markets and investing… 1) Mania As long as humans are involved … [Read more…]
WebApp: Filter Query Parameters in ORDS with AutoREST Tables
Demo, show me the demo! Make your power points and blog posts come to life! Demonstrating a REST API via cURL or Postman can be tedious, or even boring. If I had time, I’d make a local web app to show it off. But since I don’t have much time, I’ll do the next best … [Read more…]
npx skills install krisrice/oracle-db-skills
The title says it all, or does it? You can upgrade your Agent’s abilities with skills. This allows them to perform actions without needing to rely on what they have been trained to do or by spending time and resources on the Internet to ‘research’. If you don’t know what I’m talking about: Check out … [Read more…]
I created a mini RAG Pipeline to get personal training advice
Personally, I support Verstappen and the Redbull Oracle Team This post is a mix of personal and technological, so bear with me. While the personal stuff may not interest you, the ideas and technologies demonstrated here easily cover a wide range of business and technology data and AI challenges. PS If you got here via … [Read more…]
I created a mini RAG Pipeline to answer Oracle tools questions
In my previous post, I used AI Vector Search in Oracle AI Database (26ai) to supplement what my Agent and associated LLM knew about personal training with my own training history and fitness statistics. My MCP Server allows Agents to search my database for knowledge that can be used to help with their answers and … [Read more…]