Fwd: September NUNUG Meeting - Your LLM Needs Tools: Building an AI Code Reviewer with MCP
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Phil Gilmore
Sep 6, 2026, 1:54:36 PMSep 6
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NUNUG Meeting Announcement:
This message is to announce our upcoming meeting night for the Northern Utah .NET User Group.
Meeting Info:
Topic: Your LLM Needs Tools: Building an AI Code Reviewer with MCP
Presented by: Nate Zaugg
Date: Thursday, 2026-09-10
Time: 06:30PM
Abstract:
AI can write code, but can it review a real .NET codebase intelligently? Simply handing an LLM a pull-request diff often produces shallow results because the model doesn't understand the surrounding C# code, application architecture, team standards, or the intent behind the change. To make AI genuinely useful for development work, we need to give it more than a prompt—we need to give it context and tools. In this session, we'll walk through the architecture of a real AI-powered code review system built for .NET development using local language models and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. We'll explore how an AI agent can investigate a repository, search and inspect related code, incorporate static-analysis results, apply organization-specific coding standards, and gather the context it needs before making recommendations. Along the way, we'll discuss practical lessons about local models, context engineering, MCP and tool calling, and what it takes to move from an interesting AI experiment to a developer tool that can actually understand and review a real-world codebase. This is a hybrid meeting! Join us in-person (come fed - food will not be provided): Mindfire Office 872 W Heritage Park Blvd STE 200 Layton, UT Join us online (MS Teams): https://link.nunug.org/nunug-online-meeting Learn more at nunug.org!
In-Person Meeting Location:
872 W Heritage Park Blvd STE 200, Layton UT
Virtual Meeting Location:
https://link.nunug.org/nunug-online-meeting
Map:
http://bit.ly/NUNUG-Map
Calendar:
http://j.mp/nunug-cal (Google calendar - click to add to your calendar so you never miss a meeting!)
http://j.mp/nunug-ical (iCal file for iPhones)
Sponsors:
We'd like to give a shout-out to our active sponsorships which are contributing to this meeting:
Mindfire Technology
O'Reilly Media
Other Announcements:
(No other announcements)
Contact us!
We are always available and most responsive on our Slack channel.
Registration: https://nunug.slack.com/join/shared_invite/enQtNzA1MjcwOTg3MTcwLWY3YzI1MzQ4ZjQxYjc4NDdjZjc0YzgzNzdkOWQ0ZWU2MDNjNmMxYzgyMzMwNjYwMDFkMjY4NzA0M2Q2MzhjNTk
Discussion: https://nunug.slack.com/
You can also respond publicly by replying to this email or your can contact us privately here:
http://j.mp/nunug-contact
Visit our website (below) for all the latest information.
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http://groups.google.com/group/nunug (mailing list)
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This message is to announce our upcoming meeting night for the Northern Utah .NET User Group.
Meeting Info:
Topic: Your LLM Needs Tools: Building an AI Code Reviewer with MCP
Presented by: Nate Zaugg
Date: Thursday, 2026-09-10
Time: 06:30PM
Abstract:
AI can write code, but can it review a real .NET codebase intelligently? Simply handing an LLM a pull-request diff often produces shallow results because the model doesn't understand the surrounding C# code, application architecture, team standards, or the intent behind the change. To make AI genuinely useful for development work, we need to give it more than a prompt—we need to give it context and tools. In this session, we'll walk through the architecture of a real AI-powered code review system built for .NET development using local language models and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. We'll explore how an AI agent can investigate a repository, search and inspect related code, incorporate static-analysis results, apply organization-specific coding standards, and gather the context it needs before making recommendations. Along the way, we'll discuss practical lessons about local models, context engineering, MCP and tool calling, and what it takes to move from an interesting AI experiment to a developer tool that can actually understand and review a real-world codebase. This is a hybrid meeting! Join us in-person (come fed - food will not be provided): Mindfire Office 872 W Heritage Park Blvd STE 200 Layton, UT Join us online (MS Teams): https://link.nunug.org/nunug-online-meeting Learn more at nunug.org!
In-Person Meeting Location:
872 W Heritage Park Blvd STE 200, Layton UT
Virtual Meeting Location:
https://link.nunug.org/nunug-online-meeting
Map:
http://bit.ly/NUNUG-Map
Calendar:
http://j.mp/nunug-cal (Google calendar - click to add to your calendar so you never miss a meeting!)
http://j.mp/nunug-ical (iCal file for iPhones)
Sponsors:
We'd like to give a shout-out to our active sponsorships which are contributing to this meeting:
Mindfire Technology
O'Reilly Media
Other Announcements:
(No other announcements)
Contact us!
We are always available and most responsive on our Slack channel.
Registration: https://nunug.slack.com/join/shared_invite/enQtNzA1MjcwOTg3MTcwLWY3YzI1MzQ4ZjQxYjc4NDdjZjc0YzgzNzdkOWQ0ZWU2MDNjNmMxYzgyMzMwNjYwMDFkMjY4NzA0M2Q2MzhjNTk
Discussion: https://nunug.slack.com/
You can also respond publicly by replying to this email or your can contact us privately here:
http://j.mp/nunug-contact
Visit our website (below) for all the latest information.
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
The Northern Utah .NET Users Group
http://nunug.org (web)
http://groups.google.com/group/nunug (mailing list)
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Phil Gilmore
Sep 10, 2026, 11:14:55 AMSep 10
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NUNUG Meeting Announcement:
Tonight is meeting night for the Northern Utah .NET User Group!
Tonight is meeting night for the Northern Utah .NET User Group!
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