Master the Model Context Protocol. Learn host/client/server architecture, transports, security, and real MCP deployment patterns with hands-on labs.
Yes, 100% free. No sign-up, no credit card. All 13 modules, 45 lessons, 9 hands-on labs, and 100 quiz questions are immediately accessible. Progress saves locally in your browser.
MCP is an open standard — often called the "USB-C of AI" — that lets AI applications connect to external tools, data sources, and prompts through a universal client/server protocol built on JSON-RPC.
The course covers MCP architecture (host/client/server), transports (stdio and Streamable HTTP/SSE), tools & function calling, resources, prompts, sampling, elicitation, OAuth & security, building servers and clients with the Python and TypeScript SDKs, testing with the MCP Inspector, real-world case studies, and the 2026 spec updates.
MCP is supported by Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and a growing ecosystem of clients. The course teaches vendor-neutral patterns that work across all of them.
Basic familiarity helps, but the course starts from the fundamentals (what is MCP?) and progressively advances to expert topics like remote deployment, gateways, and enterprise security. Hands-on labs use the official Python and TypeScript SDKs.