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What should I know before building an MCP tool?

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You should know what data the tool can expose, who may call it, how errors are returned, where secrets live, and whether the assistant should act directly or ask for human approval.

Context from the full guide

Use DeepLearning.AI's Anthropic MCP course for a short hands-on path, Hugging Face's MCP Course for a free structured course, and the official Anthropic/OpenAI docs when you need implementation details for production agent tools.

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Useful resources

  1. MCP: Build Rich-Context AI Apps with Anthropic

    Short course · DeepLearning.AI · Intermediate

    You want a hands-on MCP course for connecting tools, context, and Claude-powered apps.

  2. Hugging Face MCP Course

    Free course · Hugging Face · Beginner to intermediate

    You want a free structured MCP path with concepts, assignments, SDKs, and a certificate route.

  3. Model Context Protocol Tutorial

    Free tutorial · Matt Pocock · Intermediate

    You want to understand MCP and build TypeScript MCP servers over stdio or HTTP, connect Claude Code to tools, use MCP prompts, and package servers for distribution.

  4. OpenAI MCP and connectors

    Guide · OpenAI · Intermediate

    You need the official OpenAI path for wiring MCP servers and connectors into agent workflows instead of inventing your own tool contract.

  5. Anthropic MCP guide

    Guide · Anthropic · Intermediate

    You want Anthropic's official guidance for exposing tools and data to Claude through MCP instead of only reading the base spec.

  6. OpenAI Cookbook

    GitHub repo · OpenAI · Beginner to advanced

    You need implementation examples rather than theory.

  7. Microsoft AI Agents for Beginners

    GitHub repo · Microsoft · Beginner to intermediate

    You want a structured agent learning path with code.

  8. Prompt Engineering Guide

    Guide · DAIR.AI · Beginner to advanced

    You want examples of prompting techniques and patterns.

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