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mcp-server-development
Build MCP servers agents can actually use — tool schema design that models route correctly, resources vs tools vs prompts, stdio and HTTP transports, auth patterns, error surfaces that help the model recover, and testing servers against real agent loops.
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Overview
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server exposes tools, resources, and prompts to AI agents over a standard protocol — the USB port between agent harnesses (Claude Code, IDEs, custom agents) and your systems. The hard part isn't the protocol; it's designing tools a language model routes to and uses correctly under ambiguity. Deep detail in references/; a minimal working server and a tool-design revi
What it covers
- The three primitives (pick deliberately)
- Tool design: you're writing for a model, not a compiler
- Error surfaces the model can recover from
- Transport and lifecycle
- Security model (you are an arbitrary-input service)
- Tool Design for Models
- Transport and Auth