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AI, MCP, and the Governed Context Layer

A self-serve curriculum for teams onboarding onto Plexara and AI-native data workflows. Start with foundational concepts, understand the Model Context Protocol, and go deep on the architecture decisions behind the governed context layer.

Three Paths

Pick Your Starting Point

New to AI? Start with AI Concepts. Already fluent with LLMs but new to MCP? Go straight to Plexara MCP. Architecting a production deployment? Insights collects the technical perspectives you will want on hand.

AI Concepts

LLM & Frontier Models

Plain-language foundations on large language models, frontier models, tokens, and context windows. Start here if AI is new to your team.

Plexara MCP

What is the Model Context Protocol?

How MCP works, why it matters, and what Plexara adds on top of the open standard. The anchor path for understanding how agents talk to governed data.

Insights

Technical Perspectives

Architecture decisions, design philosophy, and perspectives on building the governed context layer for enterprise AI agents.

How to use this curriculum

Three tracks, one path through

The 100-series AI Concepts is the foundation: tokens, context windows, frontier versus specialized models, what an AI agent actually is. Read these first if AI is new to your team or if you want to ground vocabulary before going deeper.

The 200-series Plexara MCP is the applied curriculum. It covers what an MCP server actually contains, how Plexara extends the protocol with semantic enrichment, memory, and governance, and what a real engagement looks like end to end. Read these to understand how Plexara differs from a vanilla MCP gateway.

Insights are editorial pieces, not reference material. Each one captures a single architectural argument, a comparison against an alternative approach, or a perspective on where the market is going. They stand alone and can be read in any order.

Suggested paths

  • AI-fluent reader: skim 110 (MCP vs APIs) and dive into the 200 series.
  • Reader new to AI: 101, 102, 103, 105 build the foundation; then start the 200 series.
  • Architect or platform lead: skim Insights first to understand the design philosophy, then go deep on the 200 series.

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Portal Tour

See how Plexara puts everything you have just learned into the hands of your teams.