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We wanted to build a course for new Mastra devs to get started quickly. However, we knew videos would go out of date and be more difficult to maintain.

We decided to launch our "course" as an MCP server. This way your coding agent actually teaches the course content to you and can help you write the code. We think this is a really interactive way to learn.

Using an editor with MCP support (such as Cursor, Windsurf, or VSCode), your code agent will call the appropriate MCP tools which will return context for the agent. This context tries to instruct the agent that it should be teaching you the content, not just doing the work for you.

The course is still pretty experimental and some models work better than others. Code is available in the Mastra Github repo in the mcp-docs-server package (https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/tree/main/packages/mcp-d...)

Comments (21)

keeganpoppen · 15h ago

somehow i hadn’t heard of mastra given that i’ve gone out of my way to find and try basically every framework in this vein under the sun, but i gotta say: i’m quite impressed in terms of how clean it is and how well it aligns with i would consider “real” work in this arena… so many of these frameworks try way too hard to be batteries included and/or are otherwise so simple / limited as to feel like they were made by people who don’t actually… “get” it and thus that by extension its users don’t either…

flippyhead · 9h ago

I've been using Mastra for a few months now and we've really been liking it. Team is super responsive and a lot of improvements are afoot.

codekarate · 8h ago

thanks for checking mastra out

if you do find things that need improvement, please let us know in our discord or on x!

tmaly · 5h ago

This is very cool. I have to figure out a good 7B model to run on LM Studio that can interact with this.

hofo · 23h ago

Newbie here: how much of creating agents are portable from one AI platform to another? Do they mostly have the same concepts but differ slightly in implementation? Or something else?

codekarate · 22h ago

The concepts are pretty similar but this course is definitely pretty Mastra specific.

If you are looking for a more general overview on agent development, my co-founder wrote a short book (available free at https://mastra.ai/book)

jsemrau · 15h ago

Most agent frameworks implement a ReAct (Reflect->Act) pattern in the form of a loop that "reasons" until a "final_answer" has been found. Most framworks also implement some form of session cache (scratchpad), tool use, and thought logging/tracing.

While most implementations are similar they are not easily transferable.

djfivyvusn · 14h ago

MCP is portable but isn't very useful for creating agent workflows.

jcmontx · 8h ago

How does the course actually start? I installed it for Cursor. npm run dev. I open a playground and...?

thawab · 6h ago

Start course. It’s an mcp, talk to it like an instructor.

justanotheratom · 7h ago

make a video on how to "take" this course

thawab · 6h ago

There are several videos in the link that does this.

davecyen · 21h ago

This is really cool. I used the OG Codecademy to learn how to code, this is kind of like the next-gen version of that.

codekarate · 20h ago

Thanks!

I definitely remember spending time on Codecademy years ago

ninkendo · 19h ago

Seeing the title I had the opposite assumption of what it was referring to: I thought of the interface to getting homework, taking tests, submitting assignments, etc as an MCP server and watching an LLM fully pass a course from an online university autonomously. I’m not convinced this isn’t possible today.

avipeltz · 1d ago

yall have been cooking ;) does the course also go through making a workflow or just an agent?

codekarate · 23h ago

it currently only covers creating an agent, adding tools/mcp, and agent memory

later this week we will be releasing a workflows lesson

nilsbunger · 8h ago

While we are talking about workflows, can you show an example of workflow integration with copilotkit?

avipeltz · 23h ago

nice looking forward to it :)

hoppp · 12h ago

The website doesn't look good on mobile

codekarate · 8h ago

thanks, we will get this fixed asap