Whenever I talk about agents doing real work instead of just spitting out text, the same question comes back: okay, but how does the AI actually integrate with external services?

The answer is MCP, and most explanations make it way too complicated so I wanted to do a single video to introduce the concepts and show the hands on.

So I made the version I wanted back when I was figuring it out. About 45 minutes, start to finish:

Connect AI to Anything - Build your First MCP Server

What we go through:

• What MCP is, in plain terms
• A live Claude demo so you can watch it do something real
• The three parts of the protocol
• stdio vs HTTP, and when each one makes sense
• Tools, resources, and prompts
• Why an MCP server is not the same thing as "my app has AI features"
• Building a server from scratch

If you've been hearing MCP everywhere and nodding along without a real picture of it, this should fix that.

Caleb