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Christoffer Noring
Learn Model Context Protocol with Python introduces developers, architects, and AI practitioners to the transformative capabilities of Model Context Protocol (MCP), an emerging protocol designed to standardize, distribute, and scale AI-driven applications. Through the lens of a practical project, the book tackles the modern challenges of resource management, client-server interaction, and deployment at scale.
Drawing from Christoffer's expertise as a published author and tutor at the University of Oxford, you’ll explore the components of MCP and how they streamline server and client development. Next, you’ll progress from building robust backends and integrating LLMs into intelligent clients to interacting with servers via tools such as Claude for desktop and Visual Studio Code agents. The chapters help you understand how to describe the capabilities of hosts, clients, and servers, facilitating better interoperability, easier integration, and clearer communication between different components.
The book also covers security best practices and building for the cloud, ensuring that you're ready to deploy your MCP-based apps. Each chapter enables you to develop hands-on skills for building and operating MCP-based agentic apps. The Python primer at the end rounds out the practical toolkit, making this book essential for any team building AI-native applications today.
- Understand the MCP protocol and its core components
- Build MCP servers that expose tools and resources to a variety of clients
- Test and debug servers using the interactive inspector tools
- Consume servers using Claude Desktop and Visual Studio Code Agents
- Secure MCP apps, as well as managing and mitigating common threats
- Build and deploy MCP apps using cloud-based strategies
- Introduction to the Model Context Protocol
- Explaining the Model Context Protocol
- Building and Testing Servers
- Building SSE Servers
- Streamable HTTP
- Advanced Servers
- Building Clients
- Consuming Servers
- Sampling
- Elicitation
- Securing Your Application
- Bringing MCP Apps to Production
<liAppendix: Building for the Web with Modern Python
To follow along with the examples and exercises in this book, you’ll need the following:
- Python 3.8 or later installed on your system
- A code editor or IDE (VS Code is recommended)
- Basic familiarity with command-line interfaces
- An understanding of HTTP, JSON, and basic networking concepts
- Access to modern AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT for testing examples
Christoffer Noring is a passionate developer and educator who specializes in modern web technologies and AI integrations and works as an engineer at Microsoft. He’s also a tutor at the University of Oxford and is a published author on Angular, RxJs, generative AI, and now MCP. Christoffer has almost two decades of experience in software development and is a frequent speaker at tech conferences worldwide. According to his manager, his best quality is being able to break down complex technical concepts into simple, understandable terms. He hopes you agree! ;) When not coding or writing, Christoffer is probably growing another user community, mentoring developers, or spending time with his family.