Re: [DISCUSS] An experimental concierge AI skill for Incubator questions

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 Very cool! I want to try this out

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 2:27=E2=80=AFAM Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware=
.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been experimenting with an LLM skill that answers Incubator
> questions. It routes each question to a real source rather than answering
> from memory, using the existing MCP servers for podlings.xml, the health
> reports, Incubator reports, general@ and the ASF policy documents.
>
> Things you can ask it are questions like:
>   - When is our next report due?
>   - We're preparing our first release, what do we have to do differently
>     from a normal Apache project?
>   - Can we name our project Apache Foo?
>   - Is Pegasus still incubating?
>   - What does a podling actually have to show to graduate?
>   - Which of the podlings I mentor haven't reported recently?
>   - Does a podling need a DISCLAIMER in every release?
>
> It tries to pitch the answer at whoever is asking, so the same question
> gets a different reply for a first-time contributor than for a mentor as
> long
> as it knows who you are.
>
> It's in the Incubator repo under tools/concierge. See:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator/tree/master/tools/concierge
>
> You need an MCP client and the Incubator MCP servers configured, then:
>   cd incubator/tools/concierge
>   make package
>
> Install the generated .skill file in your client and ask it things in
> plain English.
>
> There are some eval suites in evals/ if you want to see what it is tested
> against.
>
> This is an experiment, so it can be wrong, so please don't expect it to b=
e
> 100% authoritative. As always, our policy pages are still the authority.
>
> Comments and feedback welcome.
>
> Kind regards,
> Justin

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