#mcp

1 week ago 38

AI Python

MCP From the Ground Up: Architecture, JSON-RPC, and Why It Won

What MCP actually is before you write any code: hosts, clients, and servers, JSON-RPC on the wire, the initialize handshake, and the three primitives, with an interactive protocol walkthrough.

1 week ago 40

AI Python

Your First MCP Server with FastMCP and uv

Stand up a real MCP server with the official Python SDK: uv setup, FastMCP tools, how type hints become schemas, the Inspector loop, and connecting to Claude Code and Claude Desktop.

1 week ago 35

AI Python

MCP Resources and Prompts: Giving Models Context, Not Just Actions

Stop building everything as a tool. Add resources, resource templates, and prompts to your Python MCP server, with URI design guidance and a decision framework for choosing primitives.

1 week ago 68

AI Python

MCP Tool Design Agents Get Right: Schemas, Errors, and Structured Output

The craft that decides whether agents succeed with your server: choosable descriptions, constrained schemas, the isError contract, structured output, and honest tool annotations.

1 week ago 38

AI Python

From stdio to the Web: Streamable HTTP and Mounting MCP in FastAPI

Move your MCP server from stdio to the web: how Streamable HTTP sessions and SSE streams work, flipping the transport in FastMCP, and mounting the server inside a FastAPI app.

1 week ago 33

AI Python

Securing MCP Servers: OAuth 2.1, Scopes, and Prompt Injection Defenses

Lock down a remote MCP server: OAuth 2.1 resource server duties, audience-bound tokens, scope enforcement inside tools, and real defenses against prompt injection and tool poisoning.

1 week ago 32

AI Python

Testing and Debugging MCP Servers: Inspector, pytest, and In-Memory Clients

Make your MCP server provably correct: the Inspector as a debugging instrument, pytest suites with in-memory client sessions, schema snapshot tests, and the debugging playbook.

1 week ago 37

AI Python

Shipping Your MCP Server: Docker, Deployment, and the MCP Registry

The last mile: typed settings, a uv-based multi-stage Dockerfile, proxy rules that keep SSE alive, publishing to the MCP registry, semantic versioning, and connecting every client.

2 weeks ago 187

AI Programming

MCP Explained Without Hype: How AI Tools Connect to Apps and Data

A plain-English technical guide to the Model Context Protocol, the problem it solves, hosts/clients/servers, tools vs resources vs prompts, transports, a minimal server, and when to adopt it.

2 weeks ago 189

AI Programming

AI Agents in 2026: What Developers Actually Need to Know

A hype-free developer guide to AI agents in 2026 to the agent loop, tools, memory, MCP, evaluation, guardrails, and the cost and failure modes that separate a demo from production.