map[bio:Kyle Stratis is the founder and principal consultant of **Stratis Data Labs**, where he helps startups and established firms with AI engineering, computer vision, data engineering, and ML engineering — drawing on more than a decade as a software engineer. He also serves as VP of Engineering at Telepath, bringing cutting-edge AI research into production. cta_label:Work with Stratis Data Labs cta_text:Working on something with agents or MCP? cta_url:https://stratisdatalabs.com photo:author.jpg]
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol at the end of 2024, and it quickly became the standard way to turn a chatbot into an agent that can act, plan, and use tools on its own. This book goes deep on MCP, well beyond the documentation. You’ll build up your own client and then a server, both supporting the full spec in Python, and get a real feel for how the protocol works along the way.