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Goes beyond MCP basics into sampling, log and progress notifications, roots-based file access control, JSON message types, and the STDIO and StreamableHTTP transports, including state handling for production servers. For developers who finished Introduction to Model Context Protocol and now need to ship MCP servers and clients to production.
Developers and builders. This is an advanced course in AI Agents & Developer Tools, running about 15 lectures, ~1 hour of video, 2 quizzes.
Free. Free with a Skilljar account; assumes Python async programming, JSON/HTTP and basic Server-Sent Events knowledge. Price seen 2026-11-01.
An influential essay series, modelled on the 12-Factor App, arguing for owning your prompts, context window and control flow, treating tools as structured outputs, and keeping agents small, stateless and pausable. It suits engineers moving agents from demo to production who want design principles rather than another framework tutorial.
Google and Kaggle's intensive pairs a daily whitepaper with hands-on codelabs on foundation models, embeddings, agents, domain-specific LLMs, and MLOps using Gemini and the Agent Development Kit. For developers who want a dense, free bootcamp-style sprint through Google's GenAI stack.
Builds a healthcare multi-agent system from agents written in different frameworks, wraps each in an A2A server, builds A2A clients, and orchestrates them in sequential and hierarchical workflows using Google ADK, LangGraph, BeeAI and Microsoft Agent Framework. For developers who need agents from different teams or vendors to discover and talk to each other.