Teaching LLMs New Tricks: Build Your Own MCP Skills - Brent Stewart

Teaching LLMs New Tricks: Build Your Own MCP Skills
Large language models are powerful, but out of the box they only know what they’ve been trained on. What if you could give an LLM new skills, access to external systems, or specialized domain knowledge, all while retaining control over the logic? That’s where Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers come in. MCP servers let you expose functionality to an LLM, enabling it to perform tasks it couldn’t do natively.

Come join us as we explore how to design and build a custom MCP server and integrate it with an LLM. You’ll see how MCP servers can augment AI capabilities, provide structured access to data and tools, and enable developers to safely expand the scope of what LLMs can do. We’ll also discuss best practices for building reusable skills and integrating MCP servers in various scenarios.

Brent Stewart
As a professional software developer with over two decades of experience, Brent has seen many development trends come and go and learned that there is not a shortcut to being a great developer. He enjoys teaching and tries to mentor others whenever he can. When he is not speaking at conferences around the Midwest he can be found helping organize the Kansas City .NET User Group.
He is a creator at heart and has started multiple businesses over the years in a variety of industries. His latest venture is Alien Arc Technologies which allows him to take his ideas and give them form. He loves quality in all things and always try to provide the best quality in everything he does. If it is worth doing, then it is worth doing right.

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