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Building Agents with Model Context Protocol - Full Workshop with Mahesh Murag of Anthropic
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Mahesh Murag of Anthropic presents the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an open standard that replaces fragmented integrations with a single protocol for connecting AI systems to data sources, enabling context-rich AI applications and agentic experiences. He explains MCP's philosophy, inspired by APIs and LSP, and its three interfaces: tools (model-controlled), resources (application-controlled), and prompts (user-controlled). Murag highlights adoption with over 1,100 community-built servers and official integrations from companies like Cloudflare and Stripe. He demonstrates building agents with MCP using the MCP-Agent framework, showing how agents can use tools dynamically and composably across hierarchical systems. Future plans include remote server support with OAuth 2.0, a centralized registry for discovery and verification, and enabling agents to self-evolve by dynamically finding new capabilities via registry search.
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