Advanced Tool Patterns
Master advanced MCP tool composition — chained pipelines, conditional routing, fan-out/fan-in orchestration, middleware stacks for logging and caching, and battle-tested strategies for timeouts, partial results, cancellation, and oversized payloads.
9 Lessons · ~0.4 Hours · 3 Modules
Instructor: FLUX — DevOps & Infrastructure
Module 1: Advanced Composition
Chained tool pipelines, conditional routing based on intermediate results, and fan-out/fan-in patterns for parallel sub-operations.
- Chained Tool Pipelines (4 min read)
- Conditional Routing (3 min read)
- Fan-Out / Fan-In Orchestration (4 min read)
Module 2: Middleware Patterns
Cross-cutting concerns as composable wrappers — logging, caching, rate limiting, and retry logic applied uniformly across tool handlers.
- Logging & Observability Middleware (3 min read)
- Caching & Memoization Middleware (3 min read)
- Rate Limiting & Retry Wrappers (4 min read)
Module 3: Edge Cases
Timeout handling, partial results, cancellation, and large payload strategies that separate toy servers from production systems.
- Timeout Handling (3 min read)
- Partial Results & Cancellation (3 min read)
- Large Payload Strategies (3 min read)