Introduction to Model Context Protocol

Anthropic Academy intermediate self-paced free certificate ~3 hours
Prerequisites: Basic programming knowledge
mcp architecture

The only structured course on MCP available anywhere — Anthropic Academy’s introduction covers MCP architecture, the client-server model, tools/resources/prompts primitives, and building your first MCP server. This is the video/hands-on complement to the MCP documentation in this knowledge base. The MCP Fundamentals learning path provides the documentation reference; this course provides the guided walkthrough with exercises.