Building with MCP

MCP architecture: hosts, clients, servers

The three roles in MCP.

Transports: stdio vs SSE vs streamable HTTP

Choosing the right transport for your use case.

Module 2

Building MCP servers

Exposing tools, resources, prompts, and handling lifecycle.

3 lessons

Your first MCP server

Exposing a tool via MCP.

Resources and prompts

The other two MCP primitives.

Server lifecycle and error handling

Capability negotiation and graceful failures.

Module 3

Building MCP clients

Discovery, connection, multi-server management, and dynamic tools.

3 lessons

Client architecture

Discovery, connection, and tool invocation.

Managing multiple server connections

Connecting to many MCP servers at once.

Dynamic tool registration

Schema introspection and runtime discovery.

Module 4

MCP in production

Auth, security, orchestration, and observability for MCP.

3 lessons

Auth and security for MCP servers

Securing MCP in production.

The orchestrator pattern for MCP

Routing queries across multiple MCP servers.

Observability for MCP

Logging, tracing, and debugging MCP calls.