Create Your Own AI Agents: With Ollama and MCP

By Oscar Gómez Fernández

Your AI shouldn't just answer questions. It should get things done.

A chatbot replies. An agent acts. It reads your goal, plans a path to it, calls the tools it needs, checks its own results, and keeps going until the job is actually done - all without a single request ever leaving a server you own and control.

Create Your Own AI Agents with Ollama and MCP is a complete, hands-on guide to building genuinely autonomous AI agents from scratch, entirely self-hosted. No OpenAI or Claude API required. No cloud agent platform. Just open-weight models, running on your own infrastructure, doing real work on your behalf.

This is a standalone volume - you don't need to have read any other book to follow along. It assumes nothing except a willingness to type commands into a terminal and build a real, working project step by step.

By the end of this book, you will have built: A hardened, self-hosted VPS running Ollama - the foundation your agent runs onA genuine reasoning loop: Thought → Action → Observation, repeated until the goal is metFunction and tool calling, so your agent can actually do things, not just talk about themA working MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and client - the same open standard powering the next generation of AI toolingPersistent agent memory, so context carries across sessions instead of resetting every timeSandboxed filesystem and shell access, with real guardrails around anything that could cause harmMulti-agent orchestration - one orchestrator delegating to specialized sub-agentsA production deployment behind HTTPS, with monitoring and automated backups

Every command in this book was actually run against a real, live server while writing it - not copied from documentation and assumed to work. Where something can go wrong, this book shows you exactly what that looks like and how to fix it, because it did go wrong at least once while building this project.

This book is for you if: You've used a chatbot and want to know what it takes to build something that actually actsYou care about running AI agents on infrastructure you control, not a third-party platformYou want to understand MCP - the protocol increasingly used to connect AI systems to real toolsYou're a developer, hobbyist, or small business owner who wants an autonomous assistant without recurring API bills

No prior experience with AI agents, MCP, or self-hosting required. Just a computer, a terminal, and about 15-20 hours to go from an empty server to a genuinely autonomous AI agent you built - and understand - yourself.

Stop prompting. Start delegating.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDQ7BWQC
• ISBN13: 9798191919836
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"