MCP Fundamentals for Building AI Agents*

MCP Fundamentals for Building AI Agents*

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55 Lessons

1h

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MCP Fundamentals for Building AI Agents*

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MCP Fundamentals for Building AI Agents*

Course Content

1.

LLMs to Agents

Welcome Note
Why LLMs Fall Short
Key Limits of LLMs
Why Tools Change Everything
LLM to Agent Leap
Why Agents Still Struggled
Quiz: LLMs to Agents
Key Takeaway: LLMs to Agents
2.

Model Context Protocol

What Is MCP?
Why Agents Fail Without MCP
What MCP Actually Fixes
MCP Is the USB-C Moment for AI
Before vs. After MCP
Quiz: What is MCP
Key Takeaway: What is MCP?
3.

MCP Architecture

Three Roles in MCP
The Host: The System Orchestrator
The Client: The Agent’s Brain
The Server: Tools, Data, and Actions
How These Roles Work Together
The Pillars of MCP Architecture
Quiz: MCP Architecture
Key Takeaway: MCP Architecture
4.

Creating MCP Server

What an MCP Server Does
Scenario: Wikipedia Research Assistant
Example: A Tool in MCP Format
Why MCP Servers Scale
Quiz: Creating MCP Server
Key Takeaway: Creating MCP Server
5.

Creating MCP Client

What the MCP Client Does
Scenario: How the Client Behaves
Key Components of the Client
Before vs After: Building Clients
Connecting to the Server (Concept Code)
Tool Loading + LLM Setup
How the Agent Decides
Quiz: Creating MCP Client
Key Takeaway: Creating MCP Client
6.

MCP Prompts

6 Lessons

7.

MCP Resources

6 Lessons

8.

Wrapping Up

5 Lessons

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