AI Agents &
Open Source
Tools

KRO-NCRV Workshop  ·  February 25, 2026
AI AGENTS & OPEN SOURCE TOOLSKRO-NCRV — 2026

Today

Morning - Build your ecosystem

  • 9:00   What are AI agents?
  • 9:45   Setup: VS Code + Claude + Codex
  • 10:30   Build: Parliamentary records skill
  • 11:30   Build: Daily digest skill

Afternoon - Go deeper

  • 1:45   Elective modules (choose your track)
  • 3:30   Open-source tools tour (HF Spaces)
  • 4:15   Show & tell
AI AGENTS & OPEN SOURCE TOOLSKRO-NCRV — 2026

What is an agent?

Chatbot
Simple Q&A
RAG
Context-aware
answers
Agent
Autonomous
task completion
Agent = LLM + autonomy + tool use + memory
AI AGENTS & OPEN SOURCE TOOLSKRO-NCRV — 2026

Claude

Your personal assistant

  • Research, analysis, writing

Codex

Your coding assistant

  • Build tools, apps, visualizations
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Three
Building
Blocks

MCP

Live data connections

APIs & databases

Skills

Reusable workflows

Just markdown

Subagents

Autonomous workflows

Multi-step research

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Privacy
First

For investigative journalism:

  • NEVER share source identities with AI
  • Choose which folders Claude/Codex can access
  • Use local processing for sensitive work
  • Keep investigations/ folder restricted
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Live Demo:
Flu Tracker
Dashboard

2,394 rows 7 countries 2022–2026 H1N1, H3, H5
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Setup

Let's do this together.

01

Get Codex

Download from openai.com/codex

02

Install VS Code

Download from code.visualstudio.com

03

Install Codex and Claude extension (optional)

For the VS Code workflow

04

Open your workspace

Use the starter folder I've prepared

05

Edit your AGENTS.md

Who you are, your beat, your style. The AI reads this first

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Structure
= Better
help

my-assistant/ ├── AGENTS.md # Essential rules ├── context/ │ ├── beat-notes.md # Your beat │ ├── style-guide.md # House style ├── projects/ │ └── current-story/ # Active work ├── research/ # Reports, data ├── transcripts/ # Podcast episodes └── drafts/ # Work in progress └── todo.md # To-do list
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Try It Now

"Who am I?"

"What can you do?"

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Start here

Skills

Write it once,
use it forever.

A skill is a markdown file (a fancy text file) with instructions the AI follows when you invoke it.

interview-prep.md fact-checker.md daily-digest.md style-guide-checker.md
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The
Compound
Effect

01

Share and iterate on skills with colleagues

Your interview prep skill works for everyone on the team

02

Every file you add makes it smarter

More context = more relevant help

03

Your assistant grows with you

Skills compound. Context compounds. Ask it to self-correct and improve over time.

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Let’s build together

Tweede
Kamer

OpenTK MCP — 17 tools for Dutch parliamentary data
Search debates, documents, votes, MP information

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Let’s build together

Daily
Digest

Your morning briefing, automated
Beat notes + sources + parliament → one skill

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Your Turn:
Create a Skill

Use the skill-creator to build your own

1. Pick a workflow from your daily routine

2. Ask: "$skill-creator Create a skill that does [X]"

3. Test it, then iterate

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MCP
Servers

Your assistant
isn't limited to
what's in your folder.

MCP lets your assistant connect to external services: databases, APIs, search tools, your CMS.

Example: UNHCR MCP Server

Direct access to refugee displacement data, demographics, asylum applications, resettlement stats.

"How many Syrian refugees were resettled in 2024?"

github.com/rvibek/mcp_unhcr

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Live Demo:
MCP
Playwright

Your AI assistant can browse the web, take screenshots, and interact with pages.

navigate screenshot click extract data
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Sub-
agents

MCPSkillsSubagents
AnalogyIngredientsRecipeSous-chef
WhatExternal dataReusable instructionsAutonomous agents
DifficultyMedium (setup)Easy (markdown)Advanced
Use caseUNHCR data, archivesInterview prep, daily digestDeep research
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Choose Your Track

Pick 1–2 modules. You have 90 minutes.

A

Fact-Checking

Build a verification pipeline. Extract claims, search evidence, document findings.

B

Classification

NLP analysis with open-source models. Zero-shot classification, NER, sentiment.

C

OSINT

Dutch public records research. OpenKVK, Rechtspraak, Delpher, BAG Viewer, RDW.

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Open
Source

Hugging Face Spaces

huggingface.co/kro-ncrv-workshop
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The Compound Effect

Every skill you build makes your assistant smarter.
Every file you add gives it more context.
Share skills with your team, compound the effect.

Dank
Je Wel

flo@mizal.ai
li: @fdaudens