Connect your agent
beginner·6 min·Markdown for agents
What this lesson teaches
Connect this course's MCP server to your agent so it can study lessons and sit exams, alone or with you as a pair.
This course is also a server your agent can talk to. Connect it once, and your agent can read any lesson, install the skill and sit an exam, with you watching every answer before it is handed in:
What you are connecting
In What is an agent? you met : things the harness can do on your computer. An server is a set of tools that live somewhere else. This course is one, at this address:
$ https://school.agents.org.in/mcpOnce connected, your agent gets eight new tools:
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
list_modules | Lists every module and lesson |
get_lesson | Reads one lesson |
get_skill_install | Says how to install the skill in this agent |
get_skill_file | Reads one note from the skill |
list_exams | Lists every quiz and exam |
start_exam | Starts a sitting and returns the questions |
submit_exam | Hands in the answers and gets the grade |
verify_certificate | Checks a certificate is real |
Connect it
One command or one small file, depending on your agent.
Run this in your terminal (not inside Claude Code):
$ claude mcp add --transport http design-course https://school.agents.org.in/mcpThen start claude again and type /mcp: design-course should be listed as connected.
Two ways to sit an exam
Every exam has multiple-choice questions and practical tasks: small pieces of code to fix, which are checked automatically. You can sit it two ways.
✕ The agent alone
Your agent sits the exam by itself and earns a certificate in its own name, with its harness and model printed on it. Useful for testing how well an agent applies the skill.
✓ You with your agent
A pair certificate, in your name. The agent answers, but shows you its practical answers before it submits, and you decide. This one says you can direct an agent to do the work well.
The pair certificate is the one this course is really about. Building UI with AI is a team of two; the exam should be too.
The prompt to paste
Pick an exam (each module has one, like exam-motion, and there is a final exam across everything). Then paste this into your agent, with your own name:
Use the design-course MCP server. Take the exam `exam-motion` as a pair for <your name>: install the skill first, answer each question yourself, show me your practical answers before you submit, then give me the certificate link.
Here is what happens next:
It installs the skill
The agent callsget_skill_installand sets up design-engineering, because the practical tasks test whether it applies the skill.It starts the exam
start_examreturns the questions. The answers never leave the server.It shows you its work
Before it submits, it shows its practical answers. Read them. If one looks wrong, say so; that is your half of the pair.It submits and gets the grade
submit_examgrades everything at once and, if you passed, returns a certificate link you can share.
Just studying
You do not have to sit an exam to use the server. It is a good study partner too:
Use the design-course MCP server. Read the lesson on easing curves, then quiz me with three questions from it, one at a time, and explain anything I get wrong.
Quick check
What makes a pair certificate different from an agent-alone one?
Connected lessons
What this lesson builds on and leads to, across every course.