Lab 7: Advanced MCP Concepts: Extend LangGraph with Model Context Protocol
🎯 Lab Objective
Your Mission: Master MCP fundamentals through 3 progressive tasks, building from a simple MCP server to orchestrating multiple servers with intelligent routing.
📚 What is MCP?
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that standardizes how AI applications connect to external tools and data sources. Think of it as:
**USB for AI: Plug any tool into your AI agent
**Universal Adapter**: One protocol, many services
**Tool Orchestration**: Manage multiple tools seamlessly
🏗️ What You'll Build
A progressive series of MCP integrations:
1. *MCP Basics* - Create your first MCP server with calculator tools
2. *LangGraph Integration* - Connect MCP servers to LangGraph agents
3. *Multi-Server Orchestration* - Route between calculator and weather servers