Model Context Protocol - Advanced Topics
AdvancedSampling, notifications, filesystem sandboxing, transport reliability, auth, rate limits and packaging. Everything between a demo server and one you can trust.
Program Fee
1-on-1 doubt clearing · WhatsApp group · Post-training Q&A
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A working MCP server and a production one are separated by everything in this course. You start with the advanced patterns most people never reach — sampling, where a server asks the model for a completion; notifications and progress; roots for scoping what a server may see; and elicitation for asking the user mid-task. You then build a filesystem server with proper sandboxing and deliberately try to break it, because path traversal is the failure that ends careers. The core module is reliability: transport mechanisms, connection lifecycle, what happens when a server dies mid-call, timeouts, cancellation, and tracing a tool call that silently did nothing. It closes on production: authentication, rate limits, logging tool calls without logging secrets, and packaging for a team.
What You'll Learn
- Implement sampling, notifications, roots and elicitation
- Build a filesystem server with correct sandboxing, and know how it gets broken
- Handle credentials the model must never see
- Design a server that cannot do damage, by construction
- Choose between stdio, HTTP and streamable HTTP transport
- Manage the connection lifecycle, including death mid-call
- Implement timeouts and cancellation so the agent never hangs
- Trace a tool call that silently did nothing
- Add authentication, authorisation and rate limiting
- Log tool calls without logging secrets
- Package a server for a team to install
Who Can Join
- •Senior developers and platform engineers
- •Solution architects deploying MCP
- •DevOps engineers responsible for uptime
- •Anyone whose MCP server is going near production
PREREQUISITES
• Introduction to Model Context Protocol, or equivalent experience
• Comfortable writing Python
• Understanding of authentication and network security
Curriculum
→ Sampling
→ Notifications
→ Roots
→ Elicitation
→ Lab 0
Total: 7h across 4 modules
Tools & Technologies
Projects Included
- ▹ Lab 0 — Sampling and progress notifications implemented
- ▹ Lab M01 — A sandboxed filesystem server, then deliberately attacked
- ▹ Lab M02 — A server hardened against failure, timeout and cancellation
- ▹ Lab M03 — A server taken to production: auth, limits, logging, packaging
Official Certifications
Assessment is continuous and practical: 4 Applied Learning Labs (60%) and an end-of-course practical assessment (40%). Passing mark 80%, plus completion of all 4 labs and full attendance. The CertTulen Course Completion Certificate is awarded on meeting that standard.
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