Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server Engineering
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server Engineering
Master the 2026 standard for AI connectivity. This comprehensive course teaches you how to build robust Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from scratch. You will learn to bridge the gap between Large Language Models (LLMs) and local data, databases, and third-party APIs. By the end of this course, you will be able to build standardized connectors that allow AI to read from and write to the real world—including SQL databases, file systems, and Slack—using a daily hands-on implementation methodology.
Lessons
- What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
- Setting Up Your Development Environment
- The MCP Architecture: Clients vs Servers
- Building Your First 'Hello World' Server
- Understanding JSON-RPC 2.0 in MCP
- The Three Pillars: Resources, Tools, and Prompts
- Implementing Resources: Reading Data
- Dynamic Resource Templates
- Binary vs Text Resources
- Implementing Tools: Writing Data & Side Effects
- Daily Repetition 1: The 'File Reader' Tool
- Handling Tool Errors Gracefully
- Daily Repetition 2: The 'File Writer' Tool
- Daily Repetition 3: The 'SQL Query' Tool
- Preventing SQL Injection in MCP
- Daily Repetition 4: The 'Fetch URL' Tool
- Daily Repetition 5: The 'Slack Notifier' Tool
- Daily Repetition 6: The 'Weather' Tool (API Keys)
- Daily Repetition 7: The 'GitHub Issue' Tool
- Daily Repetition 8: The 'Local Search' (Grep) Tool
- Daily Repetition 9: The 'Image Info' Tool
- Daily Repetition 10: The 'System Stats' Tool
- Managing Tool Permissions & Security
- Daily Repetition 11: The 'Docker Container List' Tool
- Daily Repetition 12: The 'PDF Parser' Tool
- Daily Repetition 13: The 'Currency Converter' Tool
- Daily Repetition 14: The 'Redis Cache' Tool
- Daily Repetition 15: The 'Google Search' (SerpApi) Tool
- Daily Repetition 16: The 'Markdown Formatter' Tool
- Daily Repetition 17: The 'YouTube Transcript' Tool
- Working with Prompts (Templates)
- Daily Repetition 18: The 'Jira Ticket' Tool
- Daily Repetition 19: The 'AWS S3 List' Tool
- Daily Repetition 20: The 'Local Obsidian Vault' Tool
- Advanced Transport: SSE (Server-Sent Events)
- Logging and Debugging MCP Servers
- Deploying MCP Servers with Docker
- Optimization: Pagination and Large Data
- Testing Your MCP Server
- Course Wrap-up: The 2026 Vision