MIT releases free course on AI agents covering RAG, MCP, and production use

The text reports that MIT has released a free, comprehensive course on AI agents covering fundamentals and applied use cases, and it links to a GitHub repository for the material. Listed topics include what AI agents are and how they differ from chatbots, planning and task decomposition, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for grounding agents in external knowledge, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for structuring context, memory, and tool access. The course also includes examples and case studies of real implementations and is described as a practical base for building agentic systems in production.