Post by Civic Technologies

Last night’s AI Camp in Austin was one of those meetups that reminds you why you build in public. We joined the AI Camp crew at Capital Factory for an evening that skipped surface-level AI conversation and went straight into the work that actually moves teams forward. It was a packed room with sharp questions and real momentum. Our own Tyrone Michael Avnit from Civic took the stage alongside Holt Skinner from Google. Holt walked through the Agent2Agent protocol and why interoperability between agents is no longer optional. He grounded the discussion in architectural standards, security boundaries, and real implementation patterns. Less hype. More how autonomous systems discover each other, negotiate intent, and collaborate without collapsing under complexity. The live coding lab made the ideas tangible. Ty followed with a deep dive into taming Claude Code using the Civic Nexus SDK. He showed how to move beyond interactive prompting and into deterministic workflows. Plan mode enforced. Structured outputs extracted. Multi-step orchestration made explicit. Watching a chatbot become a predictable state machine resonated with anyone who has tried to productionize agent behavior. And you showed up. Nearly 160 RSVPs and a room that stayed engaged through Q&A and into the mixer. That energy matters. Huge thanks to the organizers at AICamp, to Bill Liu for building and sustaining this community, and to Capital Factory for hosting us in the heart of Austin. We are proud to be part of rooms like this. We learn faster when builders teach builders. More soon.