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This is the 5th video in a series on AI agents. Here, I discuss the model context protocol (MCP), then show how to build a custom MCP server with Python and connect it to Claude Desktop.

📰 Blog: medium.com/data-science-collective/model-context-p…
💻 Code: github.com/ShawhinT/YouTube-Blog/tree/main/agents

References
[1] modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
[2] github.com/cyanheads/model-context-protocol-resour…
[3] github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
[4] docs.astral.sh/uv/

Intro - 0:00
What is MCP? - 0:19
How MCP works - 2:35
MCP Client - 3:54
MCP Server - 5:43
Example: MCP Server with Python - 8:00
Connecting to Claude Desktop - 15:40

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