Intro to MCP (Model Context Protocol)

About this course

Think of an AI that can talk to anything on the web!? This comprehensive course teaches you Model Context Protocol (MCP) - the revolutionary standard that's changing how AI models connect to real-world systems.

Think of MCP as USB-C for AI. Just like USB-C standardized how devices connect to each other, MCP provides a standardized way for AI models like Claude to connect to APIs, databases, tools, and services. Instead of building custom integrations for every AI model and every tool (the dreaded M × N problem), MCP lets you build once and connect everywhere.

Here's the challenge most developers face: modern AI models are incredibly powerful, but out of the box, they're like super-smart brains with no arms or legs. They can think brilliantly, but they can't actually do anything in the real world. If you want them to pull data from GitHub, update a Slack channel, or query your company database, you end up writing mountains of glue code, custom APIs, and authentication layers - and you have to do this over and over for every model and every tool.

MCP solves this elegantly. It's an open standard that gives AI models a structured, secure way to connect with tools, services, and real-time data. Once you implement MCP, your model and tools can talk to each other without reinventing the wheel. Whether it's Claude, another AI model, or an internal chatbot, once it supports MCP, it can use any tool that also supports MCP.This course is built around hands-on learning. You won't just learn concepts - you'll build real, working MCP servers that AI models can use immediately. We start with understanding the fundamental architecture: clients (AI models), servers (your tools), and capabilities (the actions they can perform). Then we dive straight into building.

You'll create your first MCP-compliant server using Python and FastAPI, implementing proper HTTP methods and capability schemas. We'll explore real-world examples by examining .well-known/mcp.json files from popular platforms like GitHub

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