AI Agents With MCP Now Available for Pre-order on Amazon
Just a very quick note to let you know that my upcoming book "AI Agents with MCP" is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
Going to (or already at) ODSC West? Also, Claude Skills and a Spotify MCP Server
On Thursday afternoon, I'll be giving a workshop on how to give your LLM-based applications superpowers by creating MCP clients for them, allowing you to add tools to your application's repertoire without having to build the tools yourself (unless you want to). I know I love
Big News Roundup
I picked one hell of a week (or several) to be heads-down. Between writing new chapters and updating old ones for AI Agents with MCP, finishing my slides and project for my virtual workshop at ODSC West on building MCP clients, the general festivities that come with being a dad
Major Book Update
Today the early release version of AI Agents with MCP was updated with the work I've been doing on it over the past month. What comes with this is a major change to the book's organization so that we can go deeper into building with the
New Guest Blog: The Unsung Heroes of MCP
I wrote a guest blog for the Open Data Science Conference, where I'll be giving a virtual workshop on building MCP clients in order to supercharge intelligent AI applications. If you ever wanted a quick overview (with code!) on how to build an MCP client that will allow
Talking Rest APIs and MCP on the Real Python Podcast
Today I returned to the Real Python podcast after several years to talk about my recent post about autoconverting REST APIs to MCP servers, Jeremiah Lowin's article that inspired it, and, of course, AI Agents with MCP. You can give the episode a listen here or wherever you
The MCP Registry is Here To List Your Servers
A few days ago, the maintainers of the Model Context Protocol announced that they had released the MCP Registry. This is an exciting development in the world of MCP for a few reasons: * It creates a standard way to distribute servers * It's open-source * Most excitingly, it allows the
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Stop Generating MCP Servers from REST APIs!
This might be the most common MCP antipattern I see, and it's not helped by a bevy of startups and products offering to automate this process for you. Of course, it's tempting: APIs are APIs after all, right? Wrong.
The Surprising Origins of the Model Context Protocol
Have you ever wondered about where MCP came from, what inspired it, and why it's built the way it is? Today, we will get into a time machine and travel all the way back to 2024, when an Anthropic engineer was getting annoyed at having to constantly switch
GPT-5 Rapid Reaction and OpenAI Goes...Open?
GPT-5 was released today and the response was...mixed. In typical fashion, it was hyped up very hard on X: The Everything App and LinkedIn, but the release felt more like the iPhone 14 than the iPhone 3G. It did give us some really well done charts, though. Fun with
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Belated Book Announcement and a Podcast Appearance
Let's kick off this newsletter with a bang and/or announcement: I’m writing a full-length book for O’Reilly Media! The title is AI Agents with MCP and it is currently in early release for subscribers to O’Reilly’s learning platform. It is scheduled for release
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