
Enable ai to access external tools and data locally with MCP, a standardized protocol, featuring three ready-made servers for Word, Excel, and private document q&a to extend with ViveCoding.
Explore how the model context protocol enables AI to access your documents and data locally. Define how AI calls tools, retrieves results, and builds private integrations with Vive coding.
Explore AvantLeap infrastructure services that accelerate fast prototyping of code, products, and services for digital twins in the IEC industry, enabling sustainability and security AI for real-world impact.
Bridge the AI knowledge gap with the Model Context Protocol, injecting your proprietary data to improve accuracy, speed, and retrieval in document search, analytics, and RAC.
Discover how MCP, the model context protocol from Anthropic, standardizes AI interactions with tools via cloth and the MCP server, using Studio and HTTP connections to enable reliable data exchange.
Install and configure Visual Studio Code and Cloud on Windows, with C#, .NET, and Python tooling. Set up MCP file system, connectors, and Cloud Pro accounts for AI integration work.
Configure rule configs and workflows to guide MCP server creation with minimal settings and preflight checks, using component types and guardrails through workflows and checklists.
Explore the MCP architecture by linking Cloud Desktop to MCP server, using JSON-RPC for requests and responses, and detailing tool definitions, input schemas, and output formats across Studio or HTTP.
Compared to traditional rest-based APIs, MCP enables AI to autonomously access personal data using AI-readable schemas and discoverable tools, reducing cloud reliance and enabling multi-step task orchestration.
Explore how MCP powers the file system, and how enabling or disabling MCP components like Windows MCP connects to cloud tools and supports directory operations.
Discover the MCP protocol foundations, tool definitions, and JSON RPC workflows, including how to read files by path and interpret tool outputs and server responses.
Build and run an MCP server with Cloud Desktop, create a Python virtual environment, install fastmcp, and configure cloud connectors to manage nodes and goals.
Set up and test the Word Connector in Python, configure a local and cloud MCP workflow, run server tests, and read documents using text search from meeting notes and deliverables.
Run the MCP Csharp studio from the terminal, restore with dotnet, and build and run the world connector server and client. Deploy to the cloud, managing references and cross-server protocol.
Master the stdio protocol in MCP development by crafting single-purpose, ai-friendly tools with clear inputs, descriptive names, and precise, well-documented parameters.
Explore principles of good MCP tool design, emphasizing single responsibility, clear inputs and descriptive names, AI-friendly interfaces, and precise parameter validation through examples like SearchDocuments, ListDocuments, and ReadDocument.
Explore secure file system access by applying least privilege, sandboxing, trust models, and strict path validation to enforce read-only or read-write permissions, file type restrictions, and robust error handling.
Develop manual testing with Python scripts to validate WordConnector testserver.py functions such as ListDocuments, SearchDocuments, and ReadDocuments, while verifying metadata, error handling, integration with cloud desktop, and logs.
Explore the Studio MCP code and World Connector, review differences and elements, run the server, connect to Cloud Desktop, configure it, and extend the MCP server functionality for your project.
Explore the Excel processor with a C sharp server and a Python client, enabling remote HTTP access, data frame analysis, statistics, and the ability to create summaries.
Develop a C# excel processor client and Python server for MCP, test .NET 8.0 readiness, implement excel reader functions including read, data load, data query, and summary creation.
Compare http mcp and stdio studio approaches to server communication, highlighting stateful sessions versus stateless requests and remote, multi-client data handling.
Explore the differences between stateless and stateful operations, focusing on in-memory data processing, the Excel processor, load, query, and clear lifecycle, and memory management for efficient stateful workflows.
Design AI-friendly query interfaces with flexible parameters that balance precision and adaptability, translating natural language into structured queries through mapping and robust tool design.
Explore how FastAPI enables fast, lightweight Python web applications for MCP integrations, using decorators to define routes, models for input and output, and JSON RPC-like endpoints.
Explore six http mcb architecture exercises in section 3, from overview to running servers with or without environment, including Python demos, C# client integration, data changes, and a custom tool.
Run a local LLM for document intelligence on an MCP server with client and server in script. Install Olama and Python dependencies, then build and query a chroma DB-backed index.
Run the C-sharp samples from the readme with separate client and server terminals to test document intelligence, indexing documents as questions in a local MCP with an LLM.
Explore retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for document interactions in the document intelligence MCP, retrieving excerpts, augmenting with context, and generating precise, source-backed answers.
Evaluate cloud-based llms versus local llms to balance privacy, control, and cost, and learn to deploy local models with Olama for offline, private document processing.
Explore the limitations of keyword search and harness semantic search that uses meaning over exact terms, translating context into numerical vectors with ChromaDB to retrieve semantically related documents.
Explore Olama, a local llm tool that runs models on your machine, preserving privacy across macOS, Windows, and Linux with installs and simple commands for pulling, running, and listing models.
Install olama models, run them with mcp options, verify python environment for private versions, then run the chat client server, modify functions, test rac quality, and build a knowledge space.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) — Connect AI to Your Data
You've probably heard the term MCP. But what does it actually do?
Right now, AI assistants like Claude are powerful in general conversation — but they can't see your files, read your spreadsheets, or work with your private data. Every session starts from zero. MCP is the layer that changes that. It's a standardized protocol that lets AI talk to external tools and data sources. You define what the AI can access. It works locally, privately, on your terms.
Think of it like USB for AI: before USB, every device needed a different connector. After USB, everything just worked. MCP does the same for AI integration — one protocol, any data source.
This is not the last MCP course you'll take — it's the one that makes sure you take the right next one
What You'll Do in This Course
You won't be writing MCP servers from scratch. Three fully working servers are already built and waiting for you as reference — one for Word documents, one for Excel data, one for private document Q&A using a local AI model. What you'll do is run them, understand how they work, and extend them using Vibe Coding.
The course also comes with a complete set of rules, configurations, and Vibe Coding prompts — the same structured approach used to build the servers in the first place. Once you understand the pattern, you have everything you need to build your own integrations.
The Three Servers
- Word Connector — give Claude access to local Word documents: list, search, read, analyze
- Excel Processor — AI-powered data analysis through an HTTP API; works across Python and C#
- Document Intelligence — ask questions about your own PDF and Word files, answered by a local LLM running entirely on your machine, no cloud required
Prerequisites
This course assumes you have coding fundamentals and some experience with Vibe Coding. If you've completed Courses 1 and 2, you're ready. If you come from a coding background and have worked with AI-assisted development, that also works. If you don't have either yet — start there first, then come back. The concepts here build on both.
The Opportunity
MCP is early. Most developers haven't touched it. Most companies haven't figured out what it means for their workflows yet. The window where learning this gives you a real head start is open right now — not for long.
The deeper shift is this: AI that works with your actual data is a different category of tool than AI that answers general questions. When an AI assistant can read your documents, query your data, and work within your specific context — privately, without sending anything to a cloud you don't control — it stops being a productivity trick and starts being a genuine capability multiplier. This course is your entry point to building that.
After This Course:
You'll have 3 working MCP servers, deep protocol understanding, and ability to build any integration needed. You'll be positioned as the MCP expert in your network.