What you’ll learn to do
Choose and inspect tool calls, set access boundaries, and diagnose a broken connection.
MCP · 8 PRACTICAL STAGES
Connect Your Agent with MCP
A portable agent and separate MCP server with observable tool calls, scoped access and confirmed test updates.
Your starting pointA task that needs an external tool or data source. First AI Agent is a useful starting point if agents are new to you.
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YOUR PROJECT AND YOUR LEARNING
Build it.
Learn to judge it.
Connect a request to a real tool
Illustrative example · You bring your own task.
- 01 / YOUR TASK
Look up a record in a test data source, then propose a status update.
- 02 / EXAMPLE RESULT
The agent uses the MCP lookup tool and requests confirmation before the test update.
- 03 / YOUR CHECK
Inspect the tool calls. Deny the update, then disconnect the server and check the failure response.
How you’ll check your learning
Change a data source and check the resulting tool calls and output against your integration criteria.
THE COURSE PROGRAM
8 practical stages.
One useful project.
Connection contracts, discovery, tool selection, permissions, deliberate changes and broken-connection recovery. This is not a ready-made connector to every service.
Check what you need ↓Choose what to connect
- What you’ll do
- Choose an external data source or tool and define the intended access.
- What you’ll have
- A clear connection task and success criteria.
Make the connection
- What you’ll do
- Connect the agent to a separate MCP server and check the connection.
- What you’ll have
- A connection whose working state you can inspect.
See what the server offers
- What you’ll do
- Inspect the tools the server makes available.
- What you’ll have
- A verified list of available capabilities.
Help the agent choose
- What you’ll do
- Change a tool description and compare the agent’s choices.
- What you’ll have
- Evidence that the agent selects the intended tool.
Limit what it can do
- What you’ll do
- Compare read-only access with access that can change test data.
- What you’ll have
- A tested limit on what the agent can do.
Make changes deliberately
- What you’ll do
- Test a proposed update with and without explicit approval.
- What you’ll have
- An update flow that requires a deliberate confirmation.
Handle a broken connection
- What you’ll do
- Break the connection and inspect the resulting behavior.
- What you’ll have
- A clear failure response and a recovery check.
Connect it outside the course
- What you’ll do
- Package the connection and test a changed data source.
- What you’ll have
- An agent and MCP server you can take outside the course.
Before you try
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What will I practice beyond prompting?
Connection contracts, discovery, tool selection, permissions, deliberate changes and broken-connection recovery. This is not a ready-made connector to every service.
Will my advisor conversation move with me?
Your guest conversation stays on this website. It is not transferred to your app account. Bring your task and any useful notes when you start.
YOUR NEXT STEP
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