MCP Server Architecture, Transports, and Lifecycle
Design the server boundary from initialization and capability negotiation through transport-safe operation and shutdown.
Learning paths
Engineer production-ready MCP systems through lifecycle design, stable contracts, multi-agent ownership, outcome-level observability, hardening, and a verified Unity capstone.
Ordered roadmap
Read each step in order. The connector note explains why the next topic follows.
Design the server boundary from initialization and capability negotiation through transport-safe operation and shutdown.
Keep tool inputs, structured outputs, errors, and cancellation behavior predictable as clients and servers evolve.
Partition files, evidence, and write authority so parallel agents can hand work off without silently overwriting one another.
Trace progress, logs, tool results, verification gates, and user outcomes without mistaking call volume for useful work.
Harden version, authorization, secret, network, cancellation, and failure boundaries before a server reaches real projects.
Combine bounded diagnosis, ownership, an approved mutation, tests, build evidence, and human review into one end-to-end Unity workflow.