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  • Getting Started with AI for VLSI Engineers5
  • Just Enough AI: Models and Context15
  • Prompting13
  • Trust and Verification14
  • Using AI for Engineering Work17
  • Engineering Walkthroughs7
  • Practical Foundations for AI Workflows4
  • Engineering Data5
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation6
  • Agents and Tool Use18
  • Agent Design8
  • MCP and Skills6
    • What MCP Is
    • Clients, Servers, and Capabilities
    • Connect Read-Only Tools
    • Permissions and Untrusted Content
    • Reusable Engineering Skills
    • One-Tool Server Extension
  • Multi-Agent Design6
  • Practical Capstone6
  • Tokens, Cost and Latency12
  • Agentic Workflows for Chip Teams18
  • Interview and Judgment10
  • AI Skills: Full Course Index
  • Working with AI Glossary
  • Working with AI Cheatsheet
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‹AI Skills for VLSI Engineers
  1. Topics
  2. AI Skills for VLSI Engineers
  3. MCP and Skills

MCP and Skills · Beginner

MCP and Skills

Understand tool connections, inspect permissions, and write reusable engineering procedures using synthetic reports.

  • 6topics
  • 6lessons

An RTL engineer wants a lint excerpt, a DV engineer wants a failure summary, and an STA or PD engineer wants the report behind a claim. This section explains how an assistant can obtain bounded evidence through MCP and apply a reusable review procedure through a skill. You need no server setup or model account to complete the paper exercises.

Note

Version scope: the message walkthrough deliberately targets MCP protocol revision 2025-11-25, verified against its official versioned documentation on 2026-10-18. This is a pinned teaching example, not a claim that it is the newest revision. Agent Skills format guidance is from agentskills.io as accessed on 2026-10-18; no numbered format release is assumed.

Lesson

Practical outcome

What MCP Is

Separate a connection protocol from an agent, retrieval strategy, and security boundary.

Clients, Servers, and Capabilities

Inspect tools, resources, prompts, transport, and authorization.

Connect Read-Only Tools

Follow a complete synthetic report-search message trace.

Permissions and Untrusted Content

Reject a report's attempt to redirect the task or expand access.

Reusable Engineering Skills

Specify a review procedure with inputs, references, and acceptance checks.

One-Tool Server Extension

Design a narrow report-summary tool and review its behavior without executing it.

All report identifiers, snapshot revisions, fictional implementation versions, excerpts, responses, and worked answers below are synthetic. The cited protocol revision is real. No model calls, server connections, simulations, or engineering tools were run to produce these examples. They demonstrate mechanics and evidence handling, not model quality or chip signoff.

Check yourself Do you need to install an SDK to learn this section?

No. Read the contracts, follow the messages, and check the worked answers by hand. The final lesson is a design specification rather than runnable server code.

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  • Getting Started with AI for VLSI Engineers
  • Just Enough AI: Models and Context
  • Prompting