Model Context Protocol (MCP): Building Tool-Enabled, Context-Aware AI Agents

By Arlo Quillcroft

This practical guide walks you through every layer of MCP-from JSON-RPC foundations and session management to advanced multi-agent orchestration and production-ready deployments.

You'll start by mastering the core protocol: how sessions, context windows, and tool manifests work together to empower agents that remember, reason, and act. Hands-on code walkthroughs and ASCII flowcharts demystify complex topics like context pruning, error handling, and dynamic tool discovery. Then, you'll build real-world projects-a customer support bot, a finance analyst agent, and a DevOps helper-each illustrating best practices for security, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.

Dive into cutting-edge chapters on federated agent swarms, secure secrets management, automated AgentOps workflows, and governance frameworks that keep your deployments safe and compliant. Appendices provide quick references for JSON-RPC, manifest blueprints, troubleshooting tips, and community resources.

Whether you're a seasoned developer or an AI architect, this book gives you the blueprints, code patterns, and operational playbooks you need to design, deploy, and scale intelligent agents that truly understand their context-today and into the future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FFBBCQFP
• ISBN13: 9798289170835
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"