Prerequisites for This MCP Course

00:00 There are a couple of prerequisites for this course. First and foremost, you need to have a little bit of Python knowledge, so this is not a course that is suitable for someone who has zero Python knowledge. You will be writing a couple of functions, you’re going to use a couple of decorators, so you need to be more or less comfortable with these concepts, and it’s also useful if you know how to manipulate files, how to read files from the file system. Then you’re going to need uv to create a small Python project that’s going to be used to host your MCP server and as an example throughout the video course.

00:36 Now, if you feel strongly about uv, it doesn’t strictly have to be uv. If you have a little bit more confidence in managing projects and in managing dependencies, you can use whatever tool you prefer.

00:48 That’s also fine. And then you’re going to need Cursor. Now, Cursor is an AI-first integrated development environment based off of Visual Studio Code, and Cursor is going to be the tool that you’re going to use to connect to your MCP server. You’re not going to use Cursor as an IDE. You probably have a favorite IDE.

01:11 Programmers typically feel strongly about their favorite IDEs, and that’s perfectly fine. You’re going to use Cursor for the capabilities that it has to connect to MCP servers.

01:21 So you need to install Cursor and you need a free Cursor account. Again, that’s not strictly required because other tools can connect to MCP servers, but in this video course, you’re going to be shown how to do it with Cursor.

01:38 After you’re sure you meet all of the requirements, feel free to hop on to the next lesson. We are going to learn about the basics of MCP.