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MCPA Certification Tutor

Guides you step by step through the MCPA certification lessons, labs, and mock exams.

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Repository
rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch
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76,331
Licence
MIT
Files
2 files

What it does

When installed, the agent acts as an interactive tutor for the MCPA (Model Context Protocol Associate) certification prep course in the AI Engineering from Scratch repository. It reads the course's track file and lesson files from GitHub, keeps a learner progress file (MCPA-CERTIFICATION.md), and walks the learner through lessons, practice labs, diagnostic and mock assessments, and review of weak areas. It is designed to have the learner explain and run things rather than just read, and it states that the material is unofficial and not affiliated with the certifying foundations.

Great for

  • Learners preparing for the MCPA exam who want guided, lesson-by-lesson study
  • Engineers who connect AI agents to external tools and want to understand the Model Context Protocol
  • Non-coding learners who want protocol concepts explained with the repository's Python demos run for them

Skip it if

  • Anyone expecting an official credential or a guaranteed exam pass; the skill says it issues no credential and guarantees no result
  • Users who need current exam fees, scoring, or policies from this skill alone, since it defers to official sources that may change
  • Users who do not want the agent to create or edit a progress file in their project folder

Try asking

  • “I want to prepare for the MCPA certification. I have a little experience with MCP and can study 5 hours a week.”
  • “Resume my MCPA certification path and teach me the next lesson.”
  • “Run the practical lab for the current MCPA lesson and check my results.”
  • “Give me a full MCPA mock exam and then review the domains I got wrong.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use MCPA Certification TutorInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    mcpa-certification.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip mcpa-certification.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip mcpa-certification.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Clone the repository locally first so the tutor reads files from disk instead of fetching each one from GitHub.
  • Ask for the diagnostic early to get a domain-by-domain view that shapes your review queue.
  • Check official MCPA access, fees, and policies yourself, since the skill tells you to verify them rather than trusting its memory.

What's inside

  • agents/openai.yaml
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.