# mcp-agent

## Docs

- [Deployment Auth](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/authentication/deployment-auth.md): Configure authentication for deployed MCP servers
- [External MCP Auth](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/authentication/external-mcp-auth.md): Configure your agent to authenticate when calling downstream MCP servers
- [Authentication Overview](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/authentication/overview.md): Authentication architecture for mcp-agent cloud deployments
- [Cloud Quickstart](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/deployment-quickstart.md): Deploy an MCP application to mcp-c in a couple of commands
- [Architecture Overview](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/mcp-agent-cloud/architecture-overview.md): How mcp-c stitches MCP apps, Temporal, and container orchestration together
- [Deploying MCP Servers](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/mcp-agent-cloud/deploy-mcp-server.md): Ship FastMCP or custom MCP servers on mcp-agent cloud infrastructure
- [Long-Running Tools](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/mcp-agent-cloud/long-running-tools.md): Design synchronous tools, async tools, and workflows for durable execution
- [Manage Secrets](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/mcp-agent-cloud/manage-secrets.md): Securely handle API keys and user-provided credentials for cloud deployments
- [Use a Deployed Server](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/mcp-agent-cloud/use-deployed-server.md): Configure clients, share endpoints, and automate consumption of deployed MCP servers
- [Observability](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/observability.md): Stream logs, emit traces, and integrate mcp-agent cloud with your OTEL stack
- [Deployment Overview](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/overview.md): Deploy mcp-agent applications to production
- [Deploy Agents](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/use-cases/deploy-agents.md): Ship full mcp-agent applications with workflows, multi-agent patterns, and Temporal durability
- [Deploy ChatGPT Apps](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/use-cases/deploy-chatgpt-apps.md): Expose mcp-agent servers as OpenAI ChatGPT Apps with interactive widgets
- [Deploy MCP Servers](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/cloud/use-cases/deploy-mcp-servers.md): Host standalone MCP servers—FastMCP, custom tooling, or data backends—on mcp-agent cloud
- [MCP-Cloud (mcp-c)](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/get-started/cloud.md): Deploy and host your mcp-agents and apps on the cloud.
- [Installation](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/get-started/install.md): Set up mcp-agent, the CLI, and optional provider extras.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/get-started/quickstart.md): Copy, paste, and run your first mcp-agent in minutes.
- [Welcome to mcp-agent](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/get-started/welcome.md): Build effective agents with Model Context Protocol using simple, composable patterns.
- [Authentication](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/advanced/authentication.md): Secure outbound MCP server access and protect your agent endpoints
- [Durable Agents (Temporal)](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/advanced/durable-agents.md): Run long-lived MCP workflows with Temporal pause/resume and human approvals
- [Logging](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/advanced/logging.md): Configure structured logging pipelines for mcp-agent
- [Observability](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/advanced/observability.md): Collect traces, metrics, and token usage from mcp-agent workflows
- [Pause and Resume](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/advanced/pause-and-resume.md): Pause and resume workflows with human-in-the-loop
- [Agents](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/core-components/agents.md): Understanding agents and how to use them in the mcp-agent framework.
- [Augmented LLMs](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/core-components/augmented-llm.md): Understanding augmented LLMs in mcp-agent - enhanced language models with tools, memory, and agent capabilities.
- [Configuring Your Application](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/core-components/configuring-your-application.md): Learn how to configure mcp-agent applications
- [Connecting to MCP Servers](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/core-components/connecting-to-mcp-servers.md): Learn how to connect to MCP servers using the MCP server registry and connection manager
- [Execution Engines](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/core-components/execution-engine.md): Understanding execution engines and executors in mcp-agent
- [MCPApp](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/core-components/mcpapp.md): The central application context for mcp-agent
- [Specify Secrets](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/core-components/specify-secrets.md): Manage API keys and sensitive credentials securely
- [Workflows and Decorators](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/core-components/workflows.md): Understanding the Workflow class and decorator-based tool definition in mcp-agent
- [Build Your Own Pattern](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/effective-patterns/build-your-own.md): Compose custom agent workflows from the core building blocks
- [Deep Research](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/effective-patterns/deep-research.md): Adaptive research workflows with knowledge extraction and policy checks
- [Evaluator-Optimizer](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/effective-patterns/evaluator-optimizer.md): Iteratively refine LLM outputs with an evaluator loop
- [Intent Classifier](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/effective-patterns/intent-classifier.md): Classify free-form requests into discrete intents using LLMs or embeddings
- [Parallel (Map-Reduce)](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/effective-patterns/map-reduce.md): Fan-out/fan-in workflows that let multiple specialists work in parallel
- [Overview](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/effective-patterns/overview.md): Choose the right workflow pattern for your mcp-agent build
- [Planner (Orchestrator)](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/effective-patterns/planner.md): Break complex objectives into coordinated steps
- [Router](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/effective-patterns/router.md): Intelligently dispatch requests to the best agent, MCP server, or function
- [Agent Servers](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/mcp/agent-as-mcp-server.md): Expose an mcp-agent application as an MCP server
- [MCP Capabilities](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/mcp/overview.md): How mcp-agent integrates with the Model Context Protocol
- [Server Authentication](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/mcp/server-authentication.md): Configure API keys and OAuth when connecting to MCP servers
- [MCP Agent SDK Overview](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/mcp-agent-sdk/overview.md): Understanding the core components and patterns of mcp-agent
- [CLI Reference](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/reference/cli.md): Work with mcp-agent projects and MCP Agent Cloud from the command line.
- [Configuration](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/reference/configuration.md): Understand how mcp-agent loads settings, manages secrets, and connects to providers, servers, and telemetry backends.
- [Decorators Reference](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/reference/decorators.md): Author tools and workflows with MCPApp decorators.
- [Agent Evaluation](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/test-evaluate/agent-evaluation.md): Evaluate agent performance and reliability
- [mcp-eval](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/test-evaluate/mcp-eval.md): Comprehensive evaluation platform for MCP
- [MCP Server Evaluation](https://docs.mcp-agent.com/test-evaluate/server-evaluation.md): Test MCP server compatibility and functionality


## Optional

- [Examples](https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent/tree/main/examples)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent)
- [Discord](https://lmai.link/discord/mcp-agent)