MCP Tutorial
Learn MCP for Real AI Integrations
Learn Model Context Protocol from first principles through capability design, utilities, version migration, extensions, registry distribution, implementation, security, debugging, and production operations.
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About MCP
Learn Model Context Protocol from first principles through capability design, utilities, version migration, extensions, registry distribution, implementation, security, debugging, and production operations.
Prerequisites
Basic TypeScript or Python, JSON, HTTP, process execution, and API security concepts will help you implement the examples.
Who This Is For
Developers and architects building reusable AI integrations for desktop apps, IDEs, internal copilots, and hosted services.
What You Will Learn
Protocol lifecycle, tools, resources, prompts, utilities, sampling, elicitation, tasks, extensions, registry metadata, transports, authorization, and operations.
Tools Needed
A code editor, Node.js or Python, an MCP SDK, MCP Inspector, and an MCP-capable host for integration testing.
MCP Learning Path
Design and validate an MCP integration with correct lifecycle, capability contracts, authorization, observability, and safe failure.
- Understand hosts, clients, servers, messages, and capabilities
- Implement transports, tools, resources, prompts, and utilities
- Secure, debug, distribute, version, and operate integrations
Policy and Incident MCP Server
Expose read-only policy resources and bounded incident tools with schemas, authorization, approvals, logs, and protocol tests.
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2. MCP Foundations
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4. Hosts, Clients & Servers
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5. Tools, Resources & Prompts
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10. Versioning & Migration
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11. Roots & Context
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12. Protocol Utilities
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13. Sampling, Elicitation & Tasks
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15. Extensions & Apps
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16. Build an MCP Server
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17. Client Integration
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18. Registry & Distribution
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19. Debugging & Inspector
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20. Security & Production
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MCP Topic Hub
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Hosts, clients, and servers
Tools, resources, and prompts
Learn MCP architecture, transports, tools, resources, prompts, lifecycle, permissions, testing, and production integration without mixing protocol roles.
MCP Benefits
- Build integrations that can work across multiple compatible AI hosts.
- Design narrow, typed capabilities instead of exposing raw backend APIs.
- Use progress, cancellation, pagination, and logging as real protocol contracts.
- Separate stable revisions from release-candidate and extension behavior.
- Publish and operate servers with authorization, provenance, and audit controls.
