September 2026
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
10h 3m
English
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Chapter 9. Wrapping Up: Tools to Help You Build, MCP Extensions, and Contributing to MCP
What a ride. In this book, you’ve learned the following:
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What MCP is and how it is designed
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How to make LLM applications that can act, plan, and use tools on their own with MCP clients
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How to provide tools, prompts, resources, and more to agents with MCP servers
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How to defend and test your MCP servers
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How transports carry messages between clients and servers, and how it’s done without maintaining state
Now that you’ve learned all about the core of MCP, let’s wrap up by exploring some tools to help you build and effectively use MCP servers and clients. You’ll also learn about MCP extensions and how to contribute to the MCP community.
Tools to Help You Build
With the explosion of MCP’s popularity, tools were created (and are being created) to help you better build and use MCP servers and clients. They tend to solve common problems that either are unaddressed by MCP itself, or make the experience of deploying and operating MCP-powered agents easier and more compliant for builders.
While many third-party tools have been released, they’ve really coalesced around governance (how we deploy, maintain, authorize use of, and serve MCP servers) and context management (how we effectively use context to keep token usage low but response quality high). In this section, we will look at the landscape of these two broad areas while also digging into specific tools, like the MCP registry for improving ...
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