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AI Agents with MCP
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AI Agents with MCP

by Kyle Stratis
October 2026
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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 learned:

  • What MCP is and how it is designed

  • How to make LLM applications that can act, plan, and use tools on their own with MCP clients

  • How to provide tools, prompts, resources, and more to agents with MCP servers

  • How to defend and test your MCP servers

  • 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, MCP extensions, and how to contribute to the MCP community.

Tools to Help You Build

With the explosion of MCP’s popularity, a number of 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 ...

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