MCP (Model Context Protocol) Course
Build production MCP servers, clients, tools, resources, prompts and AI agent architectures.
Architecture
Autonomous Agent Loop
How an agent perceives its goal, plans steps, calls tools, observes results, and iterates until task completion.
Enterprise learning path
Foundations
- 1MCP HomeNext up
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- 2What is MCP?
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- 3Why MCP Exists
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- 4Problems MCP Solves
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- 5MCP vs Traditional APIs
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- 6MCP Architecture Overview
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- 7MCP Terminology
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- 8MCP Lifecycle
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- 9MCP Ecosystem Overview
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Core Concepts
- 10Hosts
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- 11Clients
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- 12Servers
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- 13Tools
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- 14Resources
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- 15Prompts
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- 16Context Management
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- 17Capabilities
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- 18Protocol Handshake
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- 19Message Flow
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Architecture
- 20MCP Request Lifecycle
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- 21Host ↔ Client ↔ Server Flow
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- 22Tool Invocation Flow
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- 23Resource Resolution Flow
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- 24Prompt Execution Flow
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- 25Multi-Server Architecture
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- 26Context Synchronization
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- 27Error Handling Architecture
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Building Servers
- 28MCP Server Introduction
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- 29Creating an MCP Server
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- 30Defining Tools
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- 31Defining Resources
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- 32Defining Prompts
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- 33Tool Validation
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- 34Error Responses
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- 35Server Testing
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- 36Debugging MCP Servers
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Building Clients
- 37MCP Client Introduction
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- 38Connecting to Servers
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- 39Tool Discovery
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- 40Resource Discovery
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- 41Prompt Execution
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- 42Handling Responses
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- 43Retry Strategies
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- 44Client Testing
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AI Agents
- 45MCP and AI Agents
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- 46Agent Tool Use
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- 47Agent Memory Integration
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- 48Multi-Agent Collaboration
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- 49Agent Orchestration
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- 50Human-in-the-Loop Agents
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- 51Autonomous Agents
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- 52Production Agent Architectures
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LangChain
- 53MCP with LangChain
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- 54LangGraph Integration
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- 55Tool Binding
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- 56Context Injection
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- 57Agent Workflows
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- 58Production Patterns
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Security
- 59Authentication
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- 60Authorization
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- 61Input Validation
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- 62Tool Permissions
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- 63Resource Isolation
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- 64Secrets Management
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- 65Secure Context Sharing
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- 66Threat Modeling
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Observability
- 67Logging
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- 68Metrics
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- 69Tracing
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- 70OpenTelemetry Integration
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- 71Monitoring Agent Calls
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- 72Failure Analysis
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- 73Audit Logging
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Advanced
- 74Dynamic Tool Registration
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- 75Server Discovery
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- 76Multi-Tenant MCP
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- 77Distributed MCP
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- 78Performance Optimization
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- 79Caching Strategies
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- 80Scalability Patterns
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- 81High Availability
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- 82Rate Limiting
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Troubleshooting
- 83Connection Failures
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- 84Invalid Tool Definitions
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- 85Resource Resolution Failures
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- 86Context Drift
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- 87Authentication Problems
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- 88Timeout Handling
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- 89Agent Misbehavior
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- 90Debugging Strategies
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Use Cases
- 91IDE Assistants
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- 92Customer Support Agents
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- 93Enterprise Search
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- 94Knowledge Assistants
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- 95Code Generation Systems
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- 96Workflow Automation
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- 97Data Analysis Agents
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- 98Research Agents
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- 99AI Copilots
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Projects
- 100Build an MCP Calculator Server
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- 101Build a File System MCP Server
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- 102Build a Database MCP Server
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- 103Build an MCP Research Assistant
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- 104Build an MCP Code Assistant
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- 105Build a Customer Support Agent
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- 106Build a Multi-Agent Workflow
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- 107Enterprise MCP Platform
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Interview
- 108MCP Master Interview Bank
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- 109MCP Fundamentals Interview
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- 110MCP Architecture Interview
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- 111MCP Agent Design Interview
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- 112MCP Security Interview
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- 113MCP System Design Interview
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- 114Staff Engineer MCP Interview
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