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Building MCP Agents & Clients with mcp-use

Using the open-source mcp-use framework to build an MCP-enabled agent in ~6 lines of code, solve the tool-overload problem with the Server Manager, and create/inspect MCP clients.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Build a minimal MCP-enabled agent using mcp-use in a handful of lines of code
  • Identify the 3 failure modes of tool overload (hallucinated tool names, similar-tool confusion, degraded decision quality)
  • Enable and explain what the Server Manager does to fix tool overload
  • Create an MCP client from a config file or a Python dictionary, and inspect it for debugging

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