Use sampling
Let servers ask clients to run model calls, and explain how that moves cost and complexity to the client.
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Overview
A working MCP server isn’t a production one. This course covers what separates them.
Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics is a 90-minute Academy course for engineers building production MCP servers. It covers sampling, notifications and roots, then transports: stdio, StreamableHTTP and server-sent events. You need a basic grasp of MCP servers and clients and async programming; one quiz leads to the badge.
5Modules
1.5Hours
3Skills
7Roles
What it covers
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Send live updates
Report progress and logs from long operations using context objects, logging hooks and progress tracking.
Limit what a server sees
Use roots to restrict a server to particular folders, with guardrails and easier file lookup.
Choose a transport
Pick between stdio and StreamableHTTP, stateless or stateful, based on deployment, features and scaling needs.
Course outline
From a working server
From a working server
to one that survives production.
We design this course ourselves. Anthropic issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of Anthropic.
Sampling lets a server request a model call from its client instead of holding its own key. You implement it, and see how it shifts cost and complexity onto the client.
- What sampling is and why it exists
- Requesting a model call from a server
- Handling the request in a client
- Who pays and who controls
- Sampling use cases and limits
You build A server that asks its client to summarize text through sampling.
Long operations should not go silent. You use context objects to send logs and track progress, so that clients can show users what is happening.
- Why long operations need feedback
- Logging through the context object
- Progress tracking and reporting
- Displaying notifications in a client
- Choosing what to report
You build A long-running tool that streams logs and progress to a client.
A file server should not see the whole disk. You use roots to restrict it to chosen folders, add guardrails, and make file lookup simpler.
- What roots are
- Declaring roots from a client
- Checking paths against roots
- Guardrails for file access
- Easier file lookup using roots
You build A file server that only reads inside the roots a client grants it.
Messages need a route. You learn the JSON message types, then compare the stdio transport with StreamableHTTP, including how server-sent events carry streaming responses.
- JSON message types in the protocol
- The stdio transport
- StreamableHTTP in depth
- Server-sent events for streaming
- Choosing a transport for a deployment
You build The same server running over stdio and over StreamableHTTP.
Where a server keeps state decides how it scales. You compare stateless and stateful designs, see which features each allows, and plan a deployment behind a load balancer.
- Stateful and stateless servers
- Features that need state
- Running behind a load balancer
- Deployment trade-offs
- Picking stateless or stateful for a use case
You build A scaling plan for an MCP server, with its transport and state choices justified.
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Four role-based certifications for people building on Claude, and free Academy courses with badges. The four certifications are open to members of the Claude Partner Network, not the general public. Membership is free for firms. Exams are proctored and delivered by Pearson, and the credential is issued through Credly. Academy courses are free, and a badge comes from passing the course’s quizzes.
How you get there
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Here’s how you get there.
Know where you start.
A basic understanding of MCP servers and clients, and familiarity with async programming patterns.
Work through the course.
Five modules, designed by LUNARTECH, at your own pace.
Earn it with Anthropic.
Anthropic issues the credential, so you earn it directly with them.
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In practice
Seven roles.
Seven roles.
One credential across them all.
No single job owns it. Here’s where each role leans hardest, and where its work ends up.
- 01Core features
- 02Transports
- 03Assessment
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Sampling lets a server borrow the client’s model. That changes who pays for the call.
Core features
Product engineering, Data platforms
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Stateless HTTP scales behind a load balancer. Stateful sessions need more care.
Transports
Platform engineering, Cloud services
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Progress updates keep long jobs visible. Transport choice shapes how you deploy.
Core features, Transports
Product engineering, Platform engineering
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A server that streams progress needs the right transport. StreamableHTTP and SSE each have a place.
Core features, Transports
Product engineering, Cloud services
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A remote MCP server is one more service to keep up. Transport choice sets how you scale and recover.
Transports
Platform engineering, Cloud services
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Notifications tell a client what a long call is doing. Roots tell a server where it may look.
Core features, Transports
Product engineering, Data platforms
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A server that borrows the client’s model needs limits. Transport and session choices change the attack surface.
Core features, Transports
Platform engineering
- Product engineering
- Platform engineering
- Data platforms
- Cloud services
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Sampling lets a server borrow the client’s model. That changes who pays for the call.
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1.5 hours, online course. The passing score is Pass the quiz.
A basic understanding of MCP servers and clients, and familiarity with async programming patterns.
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