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Essentials · Episode 3 of 6

Enterprise Tool Integration with MCP

A model can only produce text. Tools are how a workflow reaches the outside world, and one sentence explains most tool failures you will ever see: MCP servers need credentials.

Beginner6:30

What You Will Learn

  • Why tools exist, and how MCP servers expose them to the platform
  • The tools you get out of the box: web search, Outlook and Gmail, calendars, SharePoint, text to SQL and file operations
  • How a credential is found when a tool runs: your own connection, then the project's, then the organisation's
  • When to use a Tool node and when to give an agent tools and let it decide
  • The API node and the Code node for when no tool exists, and why deterministic jobs belong in code
  • Lab 3: a Tool node searches the live web, and an agent summarises only what it found