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Practical MCP Programming: Transform LLMs into Autonomous Agents That Interact with Your Live Data and APIs

by Williams Moses
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798241336422
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 338
  • Original Price: GBP 24.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 586 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Artificial Intelligence / Expert Systems

What if your AI could do real work instead of just talking about it?

Practical MCP Programming is a hands-on guide to building agentic AI systems-AI that can see your data, reason over live context, and safely act on real-world systems. This book shows you how to transform large language models from isolated "brains in a box" into autonomous agents that interact with files, databases, APIs, logs, and production environments using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Rather than stopping at toy demos or "Hello World" examples, this book focuses on the last mile of AI engineering. You'll learn how MCP works at an architectural level and how to implement it in practice using Python and TypeScript. Through real projects, protocol walkthroughs, and battle-tested patterns, you'll understand how agents discover tools, read dynamic resources, manage long-running state, and operate safely in environments where mistakes matter.

Along the way, you'll gain:

  • A clear mental model of agentic AI architecture (Host, Client, Server)

  • Practical patterns for exposing resources, tools, and prompts to AI agents

  • Step-by-step guidance for building secure, production-grade MCP servers

  • Techniques for real-time subscriptions, live data access, and event-driven agents

  • Proven strategies to prevent hallucinations, prompt injection, and silent failures

  • Deployment insights for moving from local development to cloud-scale systems

What sets this book apart is its focus on engineering reality, not hype. It treats prompts as executable interfaces, tools as dangerous machinery, and context as a scarce resource that must be designed and protected. Every concept is grounded in how MCP systems actually behave in production-not how we wish they would.

If you're a software engineer, backend developer, or AI architect who wants to move beyond chatbots and build AI that acts with precision, safety, and purpose, this book is for you.

Stop wiring fragile integrations.
Stop shipping agents you can't trust.
Start building AI systems that actually work.

Get Practical MCP Programming and start building the nervous system of the next generation of software.

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