Ship production MCP servers, A2A clients, and multi-agent integrations in Python. Verified against current SDKs.
Agent integrations are fragmenting faster than teams can keep up. Every LLM vendor ships a new tool format, every framework invents its own agent contract, and production code rots in months. Two emerging standards fix this: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. This course teaches you how to use both with working Python code.
What you’ll learn
- Build FastMCP servers in Python that expose resources, tools, and prompts any MCP-compatible agent can consume..
- Implement A2A servers and clients with the a2a-sdk, including agent cards, capability discovery, and streaming responses..
- Design synchronous request-response integrations with retries, timeouts, and structured error handling that survive production traffic..
- Deploy asynchronous, event-driven agent patterns with SSE streaming, callbacks, and long-running task orchestration..
- Apply gateway, orchestrator, and mesh architectures to coordinate multiple agents across teams and services..
- Combine MCP and A2A in an end-to-end capstone: a multi-agent research assistant you build from zero to deployment..
Course Content
- Protocol Foundations –> 8 lectures • 1hr 2min.
- Agent-to-Agent Protocol –> 7 lectures • 1hr 1min.
- Synchronous Integrations –> 6 lectures • 54min.
- Asynchronous Patterns –> 6 lectures • 55min.
- Architecture Patterns –> 5 lectures • 42min.
- End-to-End Build –> 6 lectures • 56min.
Requirements
Agent integrations are fragmenting faster than teams can keep up. Every LLM vendor ships a new tool format, every framework invents its own agent contract, and production code rots in months. Two emerging standards fix this: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. This course teaches you how to use both with working Python code.
Every lecture pairs a concise video briefing with a long-form PDF extension you can inspect and return to: protocol diagrams, sequence flows, and Python reference implementations. No filler, no marketing slides. You read the spec, build the server, and connect a client.
You will implement a FastMCP server with resources, tools, and prompts, then consume it from an MCP client using stdio and Streamable HTTP transports. You will build A2A servers and clients using the a2a-sdk, model the agent card, and walk through the task lifecycle. You will design synchronous integrations with proper error handling and asynchronous, event-driven workflows with streaming and callbacks.
By the final section, you combine MCP and A2A in a single end-to-end project: an orchestrator agent that exposes MCP tools, consumes a remote A2A worker, and handles retries and timeouts cleanly. You leave with a reference architecture you can adapt to your codebase on Monday.
Enroll now and move from protocol confusion to protocol fluency. The specs are stabilizing fast. Being the engineer who already knows them is the advantage.