New Guest Blog: The Unsung Heroes of MCP

Kyle Stratis

01 Oct 2025 — 1 min read

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 you to use tools provided by servers, this is the post for you.

You can find the article here, and if you like it, you should come by my workshop at ODSC West!

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Remember: My comprehensive guide to building with the Model Context Protocol, AI Agents with MCP, is currently available in early release on O'Reilly's learning platform, which you can access here.

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