Building deterministic MCP Agents
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Building deterministic MCP Agents
This course is part of AI Tooling Specialization
Instructors: Alfredo Deza
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Apply lean manufacturing principles and PMAT quality assessment to software projects, analyzing the certainty-scope tradeoff
Implement comprehensive testing strategies using six essential test types, property-based testing for behavioral invariants
Evaluate real-world project quality using Claude Code as an MCP client integrated with PMAT for automated scoring across multiple quality dimensions
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April 2026
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Learn to build deterministic AI agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and structured quality metrics for repeatable, verifiable outputs. You will explore PMAT as a quality assessment tool for software projects, applying lean manufacturing principles from the Toyota Way including continuous improvement and waste elimination to software quality engineering. The course covers the certainty-scope tradeoff for balancing test coverage and confidence, finite state machine models for deterministic agent behavior, and MCP protocol architecture for structured agent-tool communication. You will analyze survivorship bias in programming language popularity rankings and apply six essential quality metrics for comprehensive project assessment and automated scoring. The testing module covers six essential test types for agent validation, property-based testing for verifying behavioral invariants, and fuzz testing for discovering edge cases using agentic AI. You will use Claude Code as an MCP client integrated with PMAT for automated quality analysis and walk through real-world project examples demonstrating quality scoring across multiple codebases. By completing this course, you will be able to design deterministic agent systems using MCP, apply comprehensive quality metrics with PMAT, and implement property and fuzz testing strategies for robust agent validation.
Covers deterministic, MCP, overview, PMAT, and quality.
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8 videos6 readings1 assignment
8 videosβ’Total 44 minutes
- Course Introβ’7 minutes
- Intro PMATβ’5 minutes
- Toyota Way PMATβ’6 minutes
- Certainty-Scope Tradeoffβ’6 minutes
- FSM Quality Metricsβ’5 minutes
- MCP Protocol Architectureβ’5 minutes
- Survivorship-Adjusted Language Popularityβ’3 minutes
- Six Essential Quality Metricsβ’7 minutes
6 readingsβ’Total 6 minutes
- Key Terms: Courseβ’1 minute
- Reflection: Courseβ’1 minute
- Key Terms: Certainty-Scope Tradeoffβ’1 minute
- Reflection: Certainty-Scope Tradeoffβ’1 minute
- Key Terms: Survivorship-Adjusted Language Popularityβ’1 minute
- Reflection: Survivorship-Adjusted Language Popularityβ’1 minute
1 assignmentβ’Total 5 minutes
- Quiz: Deterministic MCP Foundationsβ’5 minutes
Covers test types, testing strategy, validation, property testing, and agentic AI.
What's included
5 videos5 readings1 assignment
5 videosβ’Total 22 minutes
- Six Essential Test Typesβ’6 minutes
- Property Testing with Agentic AIβ’5 minutes
- Fuzz Testing with Agentic AIβ’5 minutes
- Using Claude with PMATβ’3 minutes
- Project Examples Walkthroughβ’3 minutes
5 readingsβ’Total 50 minutes
- Key Terms: Six Essential Test Typesβ’10 minutes
- Design by Provable Contractsβ’10 minutes
- Reflection: Six Essential Test Typesβ’10 minutes
- Key Terms: Using Claude with PMATβ’10 minutes
- Reflection: Using Claude with PMATβ’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 5 minutes
- Testing and Agentic AI Applicationsβ’5 minutes
Build a deterministic MCP agent backed by provable contracts and PMAT compliance enforcement. Use the provable-contracts seven-phase pipeline (Extract, Specify, Scaffold, Implement, Falsify, Verify, Prove) to derive mathematically grounded kernel contracts from peer-reviewed papers, then enforce those contracts through property-based testing, Kani bounded model checking, and `pmat comply` quality gates.
What's included
3 readings1 assignment
3 readingsβ’Total 21 minutes
- Capstone Projectβ’10 minutes
- Before You Goβ’1 minute
- Next Stepsβ’10 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 15 minutes
- Final Graded Quizβ’15 minutes
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