Name: Grounding AI Agents with Root Cause Analysis beyond MCP Tools
Start: 2025-12-03T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-03T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Ion Prototyping Lab

As AI agents move to production, a critical gap has emerged. Many implementations stop at using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for "tools," treating it as just another external plugin. This misses the true power of the protocol: *grounding*.
To solve mission-critical problems, agents must go beyond simple tool calls. In this session, we'll show how BKOAI's Deep Search Agent performs deep root cause analysis (RCA) in the energy industry by leveraging the full spectrum of MCP. We'll dive into our use cases, demonstrating how we use **MCP resources** and **MCP prompts** to *reason* with complex graph and SQL databases—the core systems of record.
\#\#\# 🧠 What to Expect
In this session, we’ll:

* **Unpack Deep Root Cause Analysis** Learn the challenges of performing RCA in the energy industry and why agents that only use "MCP tools" fail to find the true source of a problem.
* **MCP: Beyond Tools to Resources & Prompts** We’ll address the common misconception head-on. MCP is *not* just about 'tools.' We will differentiate between shallow tool-use and deep grounding via **MCP resources** (your core data systems) and **MCP prompts** (the reasoning frameworks that query them).
* **The "Grounded" Deep Search Agent in Practice** See how BKOAI's agent is implemented to use **MCP prompts** to intelligently query, analyze, and synthesize data from multiple, disparate **MCP resources** (like graph DBs and SQL logs) to build a complete picture of an event.
* **Live Demo: Tracing the "Why"** Watch a real-world energy industry use case. We'll show the agent using its access to **MCP resources** and its **prompt-driven** reasoning to trace a complex failure from a high-level alert back to its specific root cause in a database.

You’ll leave with a practical understanding of how to leverage **MCP resources** and **prompts** to build agents that don't just *call tools*, but truly *reason* with your core enterprise data to solve critical industrial problems.
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\#\#\# 📍 Venue
The ION, Room 032 (Detailed location info to follow)
\#\#\# 👥 Capacity
Limited to 60 attendees Spots are limited—be sure to RSVP early!
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Join us to see how BKOAI is pushing agents beyond shallow tool-use and into the realm of deep, resource-grounded industrial analysis.

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