Zero to Agent: Build Your First Agent with MCP

Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives developers a standard way to connect the APIs and services they already maintain to AI clients. In this episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes, AI developer and author Bruce Hopkins shows how to put that into practice. Using a stock-data API, Bruce builds an MCP server and shows how to expose existing functionality so an AI client can discover and use it. The result is a practical way to reuse application logic you already have instead of rebuilding the same capabilities for each AI integration. Follow O'Reilly on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oreilly/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oreillymedia BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/oreilly.bsky.social TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oreillymedia