Epic MCP: Go from Scratch to Production

In 2026, more people will want to use your apps inside their favorite AI platforms and tools

Your users are already using AI chatbots in their day to day work, and some of the numbers are eye-popping:

Why should you care, as a software developer?

Because instead of clicking through pages and menus and forms, these users are choosing a new way to work: the power of natural language, voice, and AI agents. And instead of using the custom chatbots in individual apps, they're overwhelmingly choosing the general purpose tools from big names.

And your app? Isn't there.

The new Model Context Protocol standard makes it possible for your app to be where your customers are. When you build and run an MCP server, you enable your app and its functionality to reach your users where they already are… right inside in their AI chatbot of choice.

MCP defines how apps like yours can & should expose tools, resources, and context to large language models and other agents in the format these tools can use best.

And because it’s a standards-based protocol, that means you can build once and have your app work everywhere MCP is supported: from ChatGPT and Claude, to Cursor and Claude Code, and smaller, niche tools, too.

Think about it this way: if you make carefully crafted websites and webapps, you don’t have to think about every individual browser thanks to a whole collection of web standards that the browser makers agree to support.

Now imagine the power of that reach and interoperability, but where MCP clients like ChatGPT, Claude Code, etc are the browsers and your custom built MCP servers are the carefully crafted user experiences that you can be confident work in any of them!

This is why I say MCP is the new architecture of interaction. And it’s already here.

It's an enormous shift, and it demands new ways of thinking about and designing production-quality software.

That's why I believe that MCP is the most exciting thing I've worked on in years. It's fundamentally changing how we can design our software to solve users' problems.

5 reasons you should learn MCP now

If you can master MCP now — its capabilities, benefits, risks, power, and design — while the ink is still drying on the standards, you'll give yourself an enviable head start. And you get the bonus gift of valuable, future-forward job skills that few developers will already have, but will eventually need to catch up!

I'm a fullstack engineer with over +12 years of experience. I've been super skeptic on AI and mostly MCPs, so this cohort has helped me to find the gold within the hype bandwagon. The format is cool because it has allowed me to actually finish it. You know how hard that's sometimes with routine and a full time job.

Fede

Learn to code and deploy a well-designed MCP server with Mastering MCP

Just a few months ago, I ran an intense 2-week cohort program with over 350 students.

Now, due to overwhelming feedback, I'm offering you the same action-packed education — but available on your own schedule and at your own pace. Now, you can learn to build your very first MCP server any time, anywhere, and as fast or leisurely as you want to go!

Mastering MCP will take you from "What's MCP?" to shipping your first custom-designed MCP server complete with MCP-UI integration.

You'll learn:

• The vocabulary and ideas you need to navigate MCP now and in the future
• Key design principles that help you leverage the way LLMs "think", use tools, and consume resources
• How to design and build your own custom MCP server from scratch, giving you the advantages of LLMs and the MCP standard’s most useful features
• How to design a custom LLM-embedded MCP-UI to deliver the best user experience even for complex tasks
• Authentication and user-specific data access for your backend
• Best practices and patterns for building and distributing production-ready servers

You’ll learn by building, using the same Epic Programming Principles you've come to know & love from my talks, workshops, and courses:

• You’ll spend more time coding in your own familiar dev environment than watching videos
• You'll build incrementally, one concept at a time, testing and validating as you go.
• You’ll apply real-world engineering practices that will carry your new skills from theory to deployment.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast. Optimize for the unknown. Be pragmatic (and useful!) rather than "pure." These are the Epic Programming Principles in action!

And by the end, you'll be fully equipped to build and deploy your very first MCP server.

All on your own schedule.

Thank you so much for creating this workshop. It was very helpful for me to dive into this world of MCP, and it was surprisingly not too scary as I was able to reuse a lot of the skills (that you've helped me learn in the past).

Raphael Rafatpanah, Developer

Here's why you'll love learning with Mastering MCP

It's not just what you learn, it's how you learn. The way you learn matters.

You want to learn through building, of course. And you want to learn the entire game end to end. At the end of a course, you should be able to develop a real project, not just a random grab bag of disconnected examples. That's table stakes.

But a lot of self-paced programming courses are, when you get right down to it, a pile of videos and written tutorials with a table of contents. The material just kinda… sits there.

When it comes to actually learning, other courses leave all the work to you:

• You've got to manually set up your dev environment for each exercise.
• You've got to juggle the instructions on one hand, and the code you're writing on the other.
• You have to track where you've been, and where you left off.
• You have to manually check your work, flipping between a stack of tabs to compare.

That's a lot of cognitive overhead!

And the worst part is, all that extra work doesn't do anything for you… except make it more tempting to procrastinate than learn.

If you ask me, that's not good enough.

That's why I took my years of teaching experience — and feedback from tens of thousands of students — and designed a custom, interactive workshop experience for you.

I'm here to help you supercharge your learning with the structure, direction, and tools you need.

If you've taken one of my Epic courses before (Epic Web, or Epic AI) then you know exactly how powerful the Epic Workshop App is.

I designed it for you to "Just show up and learn."

When you enroll, you'll get instant access to all 4 workshops, the Epic Workshop App, and our exclusive Discord — and you'll be up and running with your first lesson in about 5 minutes.

Here's how you'll maximize your learning in Epic MCP:

• Work how you like — the Workshop runs locally and integrates with your favorite IDE.
• Take it step by step — videos, transcript, code, problem and solution — and even test your code right inline.
• Analyze your work — diff your work to the correct answer, using built-in tools to diagnose and fix errors.
• Never lose your place — the Workshop tracks your progress, so you don't have to hunt for the last thing you learned.
• Jump around quickly — instantly refer back to something you learned before, re-run an exercise when you want extra practice, skip ahead or go back for the bonus exercises
• Use MCP to learn MCP — the Workshop comes with its own MCP server! Use Cursor, VSCode, Goose, or any IDE with MCP support, to ask the AI coding agent questions about your progress while you code. You can even have it quiz you on what you’ve learned so far. I love this feature.

All the annoyances and hassle of learning a new, complex, cutting edge protocol are handled for you.

So you can save your brainpower to do what it does best: learn. And build your very first MCP server from scratch.

The overall learning environment was outstanding. The mix of video explanations, clear code demonstrations with diffs, and the ability to instantly see results in ‘The Workshop App’ created an exceptionally effective feedback loop, making it simple to understand complex concepts and quickly turn them into working code.

Hirotaka Mizutani

Here's what you get when you enroll today

When you enroll in Epic MCP, you'll get instant access to the Workshop app with 4 workshops with 142 videos, 47 exercises — all new, all pragmatic and practical, 0% hype, and 100% TypeScript.

You'll learn everything you need to build a powerful, functional, user-friendly and secure MCP integration so you can serve your customers wherever they are.

You'll be invited to our exclusive Discord, too!

Here’s everything you’ll learn, in order:

Within each workshop, each concept builds on top of the ones before it. The workshops stack on each other, too.

Plus, tight feedback loops and built in tools help you identify and fix your own mistakes.

It really is the most complete way to learn this frontier technology!

By the end of Epic MCP, you’ll be able to design and build your own custom MCP server that integrates Tools, Resources, and Prompts. And you'll be equipped with the knowledge and experience you need to build safe, dependable AI systems.

We didn't just talk about MCP, we stood up a project in a way I have never experienced before. Kent sets a high bar for any other EDU training platforms. The user experience is magical - being able to click a button and have your local IDE setup and ready to go for the exercise at hand was unbelievably smooth.

Mat Silva, Software Engineer at AKA Identity

Pricing + Special Offers

The normal price for this transformative course is $500.

But when you enroll by December 15, 2025, you'll save 40%.

Pay only $300 when you enroll today.

Get instant access to the Epic Workshop App, all 4 complete workshops, and our exclusive Discord. Learn at your own pace — everything included is yours to keep.

And yes, you’ll earn a completion certificate.

And you'll be protected by my 30-day money-back guarantee.

Are you ready to architect the future? To build a world where apps don't wait for visits and clicks, but are available, on-demand, with context, everywhere your users go?

Team discounts available for companies sending multiple developers.

Questions? I'm here to help. Reach out with any questions about the workshop, MCP, or whether this is the right fit for you.