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Practical guides and independent analysis for MCP and the ecosystem growing around it. Learn the protocol, build with official extensions, and understand the apps, infrastructure, security, and emerging standards shaping how agents interact with software.
Guides
Build something, one step at a time.
Building Your First MCP Server
Start hereLearn MCP by configuring a weather server, inspecting the generated TypeScript, following current protocol messages, and testing it with the ATM learning client.
Create an All Things MCP Blog
Plan, write, preview, and prepare a blog post for publication using the project’s Markdown, metadata, and shared article components.
Create an All Things MCP Guide
Plan, write, preview, validate, and submit an outcome-driven Guide using the project’s reviewed Markdown and MDX components.
Build a Minimal MCP Server
Build a small Python MCP server, expose a typed tool, and inspect the connection from a real development client.
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