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T12

Agent Protocols: MCP & A2A

Expose tools, data and whole agents as services with the Model Context Protocol and Agent-to-Agent.

Requirement: Required
For whom: All technical paths
Notebooks: 10
Before this track: Multi-Agent Systems
By: Sourav Banerjee

Objectives

Expose tools and retrieval as an MCP server and call it from a client
Explain what A2A adds when agents call other agents

Standard protocols let one retrieval service or agent serve many clients without custom glue.

T12.1
MCP Foundations
8 lessons
8 lessons
T12.2
Building MCP Servers & Clients
6 lessons
6 lessons
T12.3
MCP Applications & RAG over MCP
9 lessons
9 lessons
T12.4
A2A: Agent-to-Agent Protocol
6 lessons
6 lessons

Exercise: Wrap the course's retriever as an MCP server and call it from an agent
Done when: You can answer every module's Interview questions without notes