Model Context Protocol Tutorial · 1 min read · Updated Mar 13, 2025
MCP Features I Didn't Cover
Matt Pocock
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There are several MCP features that I chose not to cover in this tutorial.
These features include:
- Resources - the ability for MCP servers to expose data and content for MCP clients to read.
- Sampling - allows the MCP server to request completions from the LLM inside the MCP host.
The reason I didn't cover them is that they are not widely supported among the current generation of MCP clients - even among Anthropic's own applications, like Claude Desktop and Claude Code.
Once these parts of the specification have greater real-world utility, I'll cover them in more depth.
But for now, I'm happy with tools and prompts as core MCP primitives.