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Workshop · 20 March 2026

MCP Servers & CLI

When to Use Which

Intermediate60 min

What's Covered

1

MCP architecture: hosts, clients, servers, and how they connect

2

What "server" actually means in MCP (it's not what you think)

3

Claude Code vs Claude Desktop — same protocol, different architecture

4

Tools, Resources, and Prompts — and why only Tools matter

5

The full request-response flow with annotated diagrams

6

What is CLI and how Claude Code uses the terminal

7

MCP vs CLI decision framework — when to use which

8

Live build: weather MCP server with OpenWeatherMap

9

Same task via CLI — side-by-side comparison

10

MCP security risks and what to do about them

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