Teaching AI Agents to Be Experts & Building Passion Projects with ASP.NET Core

Accso is in Suite 302 in the Clock Tower building. Nearest parking is in the Clock Tower parking.

This event is 17:30 for 18:00. The session content will start promptly at 18:00 PM. Attendees are welcome to arrive earlier for networking and snacks!
Welcome to the second meetup this month!

Agenda

18:00 - Community Intro and Welcoming

Session 1

### Agent Skills: Teaching AI Agents to Be Experts in Markdown

AI coding agents are great generalists and poor specialists. Hand them a skill and that changes: it's a folder with a Markdown file of your conventions, workflows, and hard-won knowledge. Any agent that reads it becomes an "expert"

We'll cover what a skill is and the rules most people miss Then we'll build one live!

Speaker: Brett Miller

Session 2

### Building and Deploying Personal and Passion Projects with ASP.NET Core.

The project I'll be showcasing is CrimeSpot, a live crime awareness dashboard for Cape Town. Built for safety, not surveillance.

CrimeSpot is built as a modern, decoupled web application. The frontend is a Next.js progressive web app (PWA), delivering a fast, installable, mobile-friendly experience. The core backend — an ingestion API responsible for AI-powered extraction and geospatial storage — is built on ASP.NET Core , using minimal APIs for a lightweight, high-performance surface and EF Core with PostGIS for robust spatial data handling.

Expect a live demo and a practical view of choosing the right tool for each part of the stack.

Speaker: Malakai (Kai) Mathins