Hugging Face Model Context Protocol Course

Hugging Face and Anthropic organize this open course around a progression from concepts to shared applications. Foundations lead into end-to-end use cases and deployment, with community challenges supporting implementation practice. The suggested pace is three to four hours per chapter each week.

What you will learn

• Explain the protocol’s host, client and server relationship.
• Use an MCP SDK to build an end-to-end application.
• Complete a deployed use case and review its behavior.

Who this suits

Learners with basic AI concepts, software development and API knowledge, plus experience in Python or TypeScript.

Before you enroll

The materials are a living course. Check the current assignment and certification instructions, and budget extra time for accounts, project setup and debugging.

The course and its certification process are free. Fundamentals certification requires Unit 1; the full completion route requires the use-case units. Accounts and third-party compute or model services may have separate limits or charges.

Put it into practice

Build a read-only application over public information, publish its setup instructions and ask another learner to reproduce one request.

Source and review

This overview is based on the provider's published information, checked on 12 October 2026. It is an editorial assessment, not a claim that we completed the resource. Time filters are approximate study ranges; projects and exercises can take longer.

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