Course with Ernesto

Ernesto — Build an MCP Server Agents Cannot Misuse

An MCP server tutorial for API engineers wiring their first tool into an agent, taught 1:1 through adversarial role-play. Six sessions on transport, least privilege, auth and rate limits, ending when three different agents finish a task with no destructive call.

What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use

  1. Three different agents finish a task with no destructive call

Your tutor

A platform engineer who has shipped MCP servers to production and watched agents misuse all of them.

Dry · Concrete · No hand-waving

The plan — What’s inside

  1. Transport and Handshake
  2. Tool Descriptions Are Prompts
  3. Scoping and Least Privilege
  4. Auth and Token Handling
  5. Failure Modes and Rate Limits
  6. Packaging It for Other People

6 parts

Questions about this course

How do I build an MCP server that agents will not misuse?

An MCP server tutorial for API engineers wiring their first tool into an agent, taught 1:1 through adversarial role-play. Six sessions on transport, least privilege, auth and rate limits, ending when three different agents finish a task with no destructive call.

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