Gen-AI Developer Classroom notes 30/Apr/2026

MCP Server – First look

• MCP is a type-c charger tool for agents what it means is

  • Can work with agentic framework like lang*, llamaindex, crewai…
  • Can work with any llm

• MCP is a standard proposed by Anthropic and MCP Standard had few updates

• MCP has two major components

  • server: exposes the environment
    • Zerodha mcp: It exposes endpoints to perform trading
    • Azure mcp: It exposes endpoints to perform certain actions on Azure
  • client: interacts with server, this is generally agent

• MCP Server Options – Transport

  • stdio: This works only when both client and server on same host
  • Streamable HTTP: This works
    • With in same host
    • Client and server on different hosts
  • SSE (replaced by streamable httpd)

• What will MCP have

  • tools
  • resources
  • prompts

• MCP can be developed in any language