Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Anthropic's own MCP course: build an MCP server and client in Python with the official SDK and test it with the Inspector. Assumes basic Python, async/await, and API concepts.
Go to the course on Anthropic Academy- Provider
- Anthropic Academy
- Price
- Free
- Certificate
- Free badgeFree completion badge for passing the course quizzes; Claude Academy calls it a badge, not a certificate.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Time
- 1 hour
- Format
- Self-paced lessons on Claude Academy with a hands-on project and a final quiz (10 lessons)
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
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What you will learn.
- 01MCP architecture
- 02Tools, resources, prompts
- 03Python MCP SDK
- 04MCP Inspector
- 05MCP clients
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Before you enroll.
From the course page, checked 2026-11-05.
- Who it is for
- Engineers who want to connect Claude to external tools and services without boilerplate code.
- You need
- Basic Python
- Understanding of async/await
- Familiarity with API concepts
- An Anthropic API key for the chat app in later lessons
- What you build
- A document management system built with MCP
- An MCP server with tools, resources, and prompts
- An MCP client
- Good to know
- Later lessons call the Claude API with your own key, which is billed by usage
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