Professional MCP Development with Claude AI (Paperback)

Paperback. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is changing how AI applications connect to tools, data, services, and external systems. But understanding MCP in theory is very different from building an MCP server that is secure, testable, reliable, and ready for production.Professional MCP Development with Claude AI is a practical guide to building MCP servers, MCP clients, AI tools, resources, prompts, and enterprise integrations for modern AI applications.Starting with the foundations of the Model Context Protocol, you will learn the MCP client-host-server architecture, tools, resources, prompts, transports, capabilities, sessions, JSON-RPC communication, versioning, roots, and elicitation. The book explains how these pieces fit together and why a standardized protocol can replace large amounts of custom AI integration code.You will then build a production-ready MCP server from scratch. Learn how to structure an MCP project, work with the official Python and TypeScript SDKs, validate inputs, handle configuration and secrets, use the MCP Inspector, document your server, manage versioning, handle external API failures, and decide when one MCP server should become several.The book also explores MCP tools and tool calling, including tool descriptions, schemas, return values, idempotency, safe retries, REST API integrations, resources, reusable prompts, large results, subscriptions, prompt arguments, and robust MCP clients.The production chapters address MCP security, authentication, authorization, prompt injection, least privilege, supply-chain risk, secrets management, auditing, compliance logging, data minimization, human approval, testing, observability, deployment, scaling, cost control, and incident response.Whether you are learning MCP for the first time or preparing to deploy MCP servers across an enterprise, this book gives you a practical path from understanding the protocol to building reliable integrations that AI applications can actually use. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…