Phase 10 · 3–4 weeks
Agents, Tool Use, and MCP
Multi-tool, stateful, durable agents. Expose your tools to the world via MCP.
What this phase teaches
Function calling / structured output, planning (ReAct, Plan-and-Solve), memory (scratchpad, MemGPT-style paging), HITL. Model Context Protocol (MCP) — donated to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation Dec 9, 2025. LangChain 1.0 + LangGraph 1.0 durable execution. CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, supervisor/swarm patterns. Browser/computer-use and coding agents.
Anchor resources
- Hugging Face Agents Course
- DeepLearning.AI AI Agents in LangGraph
- Anthropic Academy Introduction to MCP
- LangChain Academy
- Spec: modelcontextprotocol.io (2025-11-25)