MCP Transports: STDIO vs Streamable HTTP
Understand how MCP messages travel over STDIO and Streamable HTTP and how to choose the right transport for local and remote servers.
Understand how MCP messages travel over STDIO and Streamable HTTP and how to choose the right transport for local and remote servers.
Understand MCP resources, resource URIs, templates, discovery, reading, subscriptions, and safe context selection.
A current guide to MCP version compatibility, capability discovery, request metadata, feature use, and the transition from older handshakes.
A practical guide to MCP prompts, including discovery, arguments, message content, user control, safety, and design patterns.
A practical security model for MCP trust boundaries, authorization, least privilege, approvals, external content, backend credentials, and auditability.
Understand how an MCP host manages dedicated clients, discovers server capabilities, applies policy, invokes operations, and handles failures.
A production architecture for combining MCP capability access with A2A specialist delegation while preserving policy, identity, tracing, and failure boundaries.
A framework-neutral tutorial for designing, implementing, testing, securing, and deploying an MCP server over real backend systems.