Track 41Pro Track~130 min total
MCP Mastery: Build, Secure, and Ship Model Context Protocol Servers
Stop just installing MCP servers and start building them. Author your own Model Context Protocol servers with FastMCP, wire them into Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, secure them against the prompt-injection and confused-deputy risks, and deploy them to production. Built from five heterogeneous MCP servers running live (n8n, LightRAG, ServiceNow, Playwright, OBS) and the real integration scars nobody else documents.
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§ The modules
- 01What MCP Is and Why It Became Agent Connective TissueThe protocol from first principles: the M-by-N integration problem it solves, the three primitives (tools, resources, prompts), the host/client/server model, the stdio vs HTTP transports, and why building your own server is the highest-leverage agent skill.Account
- 02Your First FastMCP Server, Authored From ScratchBuild a real Python MCP server with FastMCP: define a tool, run it over stdio, connect it to a client, and watch the agent call it. Establish the local dev loop and the seed server that grows into the capstone.Account
- 03Wiring Servers Into Real Clients: The Integration ScarsThe configuration knowledge tutorials skip: the claude mcp add CLI, per-project ~/.claude.json, why the VS Code extension ignores .claude/mcp.json, the restart requirement, the Windows git-bash path gotcha, and how to debug a server that will not connect.Pro
- 04Case Study Teardown: Five Servers I Run in ProductionA ranked teardown of five real servers (n8n, LightRAG, ServiceNow, Playwright, OBS): what each unlocks, the one hard lesson it taught, and when that class of server is worth building.Pro
- 05Securing MCP Servers: Permissions, Least-Privilege, and SandboxingThe spine of the course. The confused-deputy and prompt-injection threat model, permission-approval workflows, least-privilege tool scoping, sandboxing shell and file access, auth, and the OpenClaw and DOCKER-USER hardening lessons. What you should never give a server access to.Pro
- 06Designing Tools, Resources, and Prompts an LLM Can Actually DriveDesign for the model as the user: tool names, descriptions, and schemas an LLM can choose correctly, structured results, recoverable errors, idempotency and safe-by-default destructive actions, and tool vs resource vs prompt decisions.Pro
- 07Deploying and Operating MCP Servers in ProductionFrom localhost to always-on: streamable HTTP behind a reverse proxy with bearer-token auth and SSL, persistence and restart gotchas, the permission-persistence watcher hack, logging, health checks, and versioning on a VPS.Pro
- 08Capstone: Ship a Real MCP Server an Agent Drives End to EndBuild a complete, secured, deployed server an agent drives end to end, then package it as a portfolio piece and resume proof, and see how MCP Mastery anchors an agent-builder bundle with Remote Claude Code and Agent Teams.Pro
Start module 01 →Finish all six for the Pro Track