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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.

  1. 1What you are connecting
  2. 2Connect it
  3. 3Two ways to sit an exam
  4. 4The prompt to paste
  5. 5Just studying

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:

my-app — claude
› Use the design-course MCP server. Take exam-motion as a pair for Asha: install the skill first and show me your practical answers before you submit.
⏺ design-course · get_skill_install
⏺ design-course · start_exam exam-motion (pair)
Q9 practical, my answer: transition: transform 200ms cubic-bezier(0.23, 1, 0.32, 1);
That is all 14. Submit them? (y/n)
› y
⏺ design-course · submit_exam
Passed 12 / 14. Certificate: school.agents.org.in/design/cert/7k2q9
An exam taken as a pair: the agent answers, shows you its work, and submits only when you say yes.

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:

The course's MCP server
$ https://school.agents.org.in/mcp

Once connected, your agent gets eight new tools:

ToolWhat it does
list_modulesLists every module and lesson
get_lessonReads one lesson
get_skill_installSays how to install the skill in this agent
get_skill_fileReads one note from the skill
list_examsLists every quiz and exam
start_examStarts a sitting and returns the questions
submit_examHands in the answers and gets the grade
verify_certificateChecks 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):

Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http design-course https://school.agents.org.in/mcp

Then 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:

Take an exam as a pair· for your agent
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:

  1. It installs the skill

    The agent calls get_skill_install and sets up design-engineering, because the practical tasks test whether it applies the skill.
  2. It starts the exam

    start_exam returns the questions. The answers never leave the server.
  3. 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.
  4. It submits and gets the grade

    submit_exam grades everything at once and, if you passed, returns a certificate link you can share.
Say no if an answer looks wrong. A pair that never pushes back is just the agent alone with your name on it.

Just studying

You do not have to sit an exam to use the server. It is a good study partner too:

Study with the course· for your agent
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?

What this lesson builds on and leads to, across every course.

  • What is an agent?
  • Welcome