Stop Wrapping APIs. Start Building Agents.

A developer's guide to ColdFusion's native AI stack: Models, Memory, Tools, RAG, and MCP

Most AI integrations today are just dressed-up API calls. You send a string, you get a string back, and you call it "AI-powered." That's not an agent. That's a wrapper.

In this session, we tear that pattern apart and rebuild it properly — using ColdFusion 2025's native AI stack. No glue code. Just CFML.

We'll go end to end: from a stateless ChatModel() call all the way to a fully autonomous agent that remembers your users, calls your business logic as tools, retrieves from your own data via RAG, and connects to external services through MCP — all in one unified, vendor-neutral codebase.

You'll leave with a mental model for the entire stack, working code you can deploy Monday morning, and a very good reason to stop underestimating ColdFusion.