These are the 12 resources I’d send anyone asking how to learn AI agents in 2026: the primary-source canon from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and LangChain, plus the two standout free courses. Every entry is a real engineering reference or curriculum from the people building the agent ecosystem, not a tutorial-of-tutorials. Use this as the… Continue reading
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What Is an MCP Server? Model Context Protocol Explained
An MCP server is a program that provides context to an AI application through the Model Context Protocol. It exposes tools, data and prompt templates over a standard interface, so any client that speaks the protocol can use it without custom integration work on either side. MCP server: What You’ll Learn This guide defines what… Continue reading
Agentic Resource Discovery: The ARD Spec Explained
TL;DR 30 sec3 min coredeep dive optional Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is an open specification, at v0.91 as of August 26, 2026, that lets AI clients find agents, MCP servers, skills, and APIs by searching them the way a search engine finds pages, instead of hardcoding each one in advance. The spec comes from authors… Continue reading
Computer-Use Tools: 5 Ways Agents Operate Real Apps
TL;DR 30 sec6 min coredeep dive optional Computer-use tools now cover five practical control surfaces for an agent: a $7 hardware rig, a classifier loop at $0.0002 a step, disposable VM desktops, open weights trained for screens, and terminal control with no screen at all. A $7 ESP32-S3 board drives a real iPhone, with AirPlay… Continue reading
Anthropic Academy: Best Free Claude Cert Track
Anthropic Academy is the official learning hub from Anthropic at anthropic.skilljar.com, launched on March 2, 2026 with roughly twenty video courses across four tracks. Every course is free. Every course that has a final assessment issues a Skilljar certificate you can add to LinkedIn. The catalog covers the full Claude stack from non technical AI… Continue reading
Kaggle AI Agents: Powerful 5-Day Intensive
Kaggle AI Agents Intensive is the November 2025 sequel to the Gen AI Intensive on this site. Live cohort November 10 through 14, 2025 drew 1.5 million learners, the largest AI course cohort in history. Five days on agents only using Google ADK plus Gemini plus MCP plus A2A plus Vertex AI Agent Engine. Now… Continue reading
Claude Code MCP Servers Guide
Connect Claude Code to external services via MCP servers for live data access from GitHub, databases, Slack, and more.
Continue readingClaude Code MCP Configuration: Servers, Auth, Debugging
MCP configuration is the difference between a Claude Code setup that quietly stalls on a broken server and one that runs dozens of tools across local processes, remote HTTPS endpoints, and enterprise allowlists without friction. This guide goes past the install step and into the transport, scope, authentication, and tool-search decisions that make a fleet… Continue reading