Documenting my journey building a general-purpose deep research agent powered by MCP, and sharing the valuable (and sometimes painful) lessons learned along the way.BackgroundMy name is Sarmad Qadri and I'm the creator of the open source project, mcp-agent. My philosophy for agent development in 2025 can be summarized as – MCP is all you need. Or more verbosely: Connect state-of-the-art LLMs to MCP servers, and leverage simple design patterns to let them make tool calls, gather context and make ...