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MCP: Model Context Protocol

How MCP works, building an MCP server, and connecting it to an agent, with animated films and runnable Python. Part of the Agentic AI Engineer premium track.

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    What MCP Is and Why It Matters

    The Model Context Protocol from the inside: hosts, clients and servers, stdio and Streamable HTTP transports, the initialize handshake and capabilities, server primitives (tools, resources, prompts), client features…

    4 min read
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    Build an MCP Server

    Build a real MCP server in Python: a course catalogue backed by SQLite, tools with type hints and docstrings, a resource template, a prompt, helpful errors, safe SQL,…

    4 min read
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    Connect an MCP Server to an Agent

    Use your MCP server from real apps and your own code: add it to Claude Code and desktop apps, write a Python MCP client, convert MCP tools into…

    4 min read