AI Engineering 101, Volume 3: Agentic MCP Integration
Agents that use tools, remember, coordinate and run real systems. The lineage from ReAct to function calling to the Model Context Protocol; building your own M…
Category: Technology · Level: intermediate · 65 lessons · Price: USD 99.00
Topics: ai-engineering, system-design, rag, mcp, agents, llm
Curriculum
Module 1: Agents, Tool Use and MCP
- Where This Came From: From "Call a Function" to the Model Context Protocol
- How a Model Uses a Tool: Schemas, Calls and Who Runs What
- The Agent Loop: ReAct in Code, Stopping Rules and How Small Models Fail
- MCP from the Inside: Hosts, Clients, Servers, Transports and the stdout Trap
- Safe Tools: Consent, Least Privilege and Prompt Injection Through Tool Results
- Hands-on Lab: An MCP Notes Server and a Local Agent That Uses It
- Design Exercise: A Study-Room Booking Agent (with Model Answer)
- Portfolio, Volume 3 Step 1: Your Study Assistant as an MCP Server
- Interview Corner: Five Questions on Agents, Tools and MCP
- Reading List: Agents, Tools and MCP
- Module 1 Quiz: Agents, Tool Use and MCP
Module 2: Memory for Agents
- Where This Came From: How Machines Learned to Remember Between Conversations
- Kinds of Memory: Working, Episodic, Semantic and Procedural, and Where Each Lives in Code
- Context Budgets: Counting Tokens, Trimming History and What Long Chats Really Cost
- Writing and Recalling Memories Well: Thresholds, Duplicates and Memory Poisoning
- Privacy and Forgetting: Consent, Stale Facts and Deleting From Every Store
- Hands-on Lab: A Chat That Remembers You Across Sessions
- Design Exercise: Memory for a Revision Coach (with Model Answer)
- Portfolio, Volume 3 Step 2: Long-Term Memory as MCP Tools
- Interview Corner: Five Questions on Memory for AI Agents
- Reading List: Memory for AI Agents
- Module 2 Quiz: Memory for Agents
Module 3: Multi-Agent Orchestration and A2A
- Where This Came From: From Blackboards and Contract Nets to A2A
- Five Patterns for Sharing Work Between Model Calls
- Orchestrator-Workers in Practice: Splitting, Isolating, Joining
- A2A: How Agents Built by Different People Work Together
- Keeping Multi-Agent Systems Cheap, Bounded and Honest
- Hands-on Lab: One Call vs Orchestrator-Workers vs Evaluator-Optimizer, Then A2A
- Design Exercise: A Course Concierge That Talks to Other Departments' Agents (with Model Answer)
- Portfolio Vol 3 Step 3: Multi-Part Answers and Your Study Assistant as an A2A Agent
- Interview Corner: Multi-Agent Systems and A2A
- Module 3 Reading List
- Module 3 Quiz: Multi-Agent Orchestration and A2A
Module 4: Agents That Run Their Own Delivery Loop (Buggazi)
- Where This Came From: From Bug Trackers to Agents That Run the Board
- The Delivery Loop: Plan, Work, Test, Triage, Close
- Guardrails: Budgets, Attempt Caps, Timeouts and Running Model-Written Code Safely
- Triage: Turning Test Failures into Honest Work Items
- From the Local Board to a Real Tracker: Buggazi
- Hands-on Lab: An Agent That Runs Its Own Sprint
- Design Exercise: A Night-Shift Agent for the Study Assistant (with Model Answer)
- Portfolio Vol 3 Step 4: A Work Board and a Test-Triage Loop
- Interview Corner: Agents That Run Their Own Delivery Loop
- Module 4 Reading List
- Module 4 Quiz: Agents That Run Their Own Delivery Loop
Module 5: Security and Safety for Agentic Systems
- Where This Came From: From Least Privilege to the Lethal Trifecta
- Prompt Injection: Why the Model Cannot Tell Data From Orders
- Least Privilege for Agents: Capabilities, Taint and Scoped Secrets
- Humans in the Loop, Sandboxes and Safe Output Handling
- Audit Logs You Can Trust and Red-Teaming You Can Repeat
- Hands-on Lab: Hijack a Local Agent, Then Stop It
- Design Exercise: Securing a Course Helpdesk Agent (with Model Answer)
- Portfolio Vol 3 Step 5: A Guard for Every Tool Call
- Interview Corner: Five Agent-Security Questions
- Module 5 Reading List
- Module 5 Quiz: Security and Safety for Agentic Systems
Module 6: Capstone, A Live 24x7 Agentic System
- The Capstone Brief: A Study Assistant That Acts, Safely, 24x7
- Architecture: How the Pieces Fit
- The Rubric: How Your Capstone Is Graded
- Build Guide: Six Milestones From Empty File to Demo
- Portfolio Vol 3 Step 6: The Reference Capstone
- Running It 24x7: Schedules, Heartbeats, Runbooks and Drills
- Optional: Swapping In SecretCarousel, OddSockets and Buggazi
- Demo Day and Interview Corner: Presenting Your Capstone
- Module 6 Reading List
- Module 6 Quiz: Capstone
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