Reliability plumbing: timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers

Course outcomes

• MST 501 CO1

  Demonstrate Foundations & Agent Architecture competence: complete the Day 1–15 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

• MST 501 CO2

  Demonstrate Model Layer, Context & Tools competence: complete the Day 16–30 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

• MST 501 CO4

  Demonstrate MCP, Orchestration & Multi-Agent competence: complete the Day 46–60 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.

Taught in weeks & phases

• MST 501 · Phase 1 — Foundations & Agent Architecture
• MST 501 · Phase 2 — Model Layer, Context & Tools
• MST 501 · Phase 4 — MCP, Orchestration & Multi-Agent

Textbook chapters