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mcp-agent implements every pattern from "Building Effective Agents."

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lastmile-ai/mcp-agent is an MCP-native runtime that ships Anthropic's documented agent patterns as composable pieces and manages the full lifecycle of MCP server connections. If you're standardizing on MCP, it's a batteries-included starting point instead of a from-scratch build.


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