Coursera MCP Server
for AI Agents
Connect your AI agent to StackOne's Coursera MCP server and give it ready-to-use MCP tools out of the box. Auth, tool execution, and security all managed.
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16 Agent Actions
Create, read, update, and delete across Coursera — and extend your agent's capabilities with custom actions.
Authentication
Agent Tool Authentication
Per-user OAuth in one call. Your Coursera MCP server gets session-scoped tokens with zero credentials stored on your infra.
Agent Auth →
Security
Agent Protection
Every Coursera tool response scanned for prompt injection in milliseconds — 88.7% accuracy, all running on CPU.
Prompt Injection Defense →
Performance
Max Agent Context. Min Cost.
Free up to 96% of your agent's context window to enhance reasoning and reduce cost, on every Coursera call.
Tools Discovery →What is the Coursera MCP Server?
A Coursera MCP server lets AI agents read and write Coursera data through the Model Context Protocol — Anthropic's open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools. StackOne's Coursera MCP server ships with pre-built actions, fully extensible via the Connector Builder — plus managed authentication, prompt injection defense, observability, and agent execution runtime. Connect it from MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Goose, and VS Code, or from agent frameworks like OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, and Vercel AI SDK.
All Coursera MCP Tools
Every action from Coursera's API, ready for your agent. Create, read, update, and delete — scoped to exactly what you need.
Organizations
- Get Organization
Retrieve details about your Coursera organization.
Users
- List Users
Retrieve a paginated list of users within your Coursera organization.
- Delete User
Delete a user from all programs. This also revokes access to the corresponding courses/specializations in the programs.
User Assignments
- List User Assignments
Retrieve course progress summaries for all users in your organization.
Contents
- List Content
Retrieve a paginated list of content (courses, specializations, videos) from your Coursera catalog.
- Get Content
Retrieve detailed information about a specific content item (course, specialization, or professional certificate).
Programs
- List Programs
Retrieve a paginated list of active learning programs in your organization.
Program Memberships
- List Program Memberships
Returns a paginated list of accepted members in your program.
Program Invitations
- Create Program Invitation
This adds a user as an invitee to a program. The external user id in the request can be an LMS / App specific identifier that can be later used for downstream calls. You can also trigger the invitation email to be sent automatically by specifying true for sendEmail in the request.
- List Program Invitations
Returns a paginated list of pending invitations in your program.
- Delete Program Invitation
Delete a pending program invitation.
Program Invitations (Batch)s
- Create Program Invitations (Batch)
This adds multiple users as invitees to a program. The external user id in the request can be an LMS / App specific identifier that can be later used for downstream calls. You can also trigger the invitation email to be sent automatically by specifying true for sendEmail in the request.
Program Enrollments
- Create Program Enrollment
Enrolls a selected user into a specific course. Note that this will only work if the user already has a Coursera account and a current program membership.
- Get Program Enrollment
For a specific user, return whether they are currently enrolled in a specific course.
Curriculum Collections
- List Curriculum Collections
Retrieve a paginated list of curriculum collections in a program.
Program Course Materials
- List Program Course Materials
Returns a paginated list of individual course materials for a given course.
Set Up Your Coursera MCP Server in Minutes
One endpoint. Any framework. Your agent is talking to Coursera in under 10 lines of code.
Agent Frameworks
JSON{
"mcpServers": {
"stackone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-remote@latest",
"https://api.stackone.com/mcp?x-account-id=<account_id>",
"--header",
"Authorization: Basic <YOUR_BASE64_TOKEN>"
]
}
}
}Check More Learning / LMS MCP Servers
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Platform Resources
MCP Code Mode: Keeping Tool Responses Out of Agent Context
Anthropic's code_execution processes data already in context. Custom MCP code mode keeps raw tool responses in a sandbox. 14K tokens vs 500.
11 min
Comparing BM25, TF-IDF, and Hybrid Search for MCP Tool Discovery
Benchmarking BM25, TF-IDF, and hybrid search for MCP tool discovery across 916 tools. The 80/20 TF-IDF/BM25 hybrid hits 21% Top-1 accuracy in under 1ms.
10 min
Indirect Prompt Injection Defense for MCP Tools: A Technical Guide
MCP tools that read emails, CRM records, and tickets are indirect prompt injection vectors. Here's how we built a two-tier defense that scans tool results in ~11ms.
12 min
MCP vs A2A: Architecture, Security, and When to Use Each
MCP vs A2A: what each protocol standardizes, how they differ, their shared security risks including indirect prompt injection, and when to use one, both, or a hybrid architecture.
12 min
MCP vs API: What 200+ Connector Builds Taught Us
MCP wraps APIs, it doesn't replace them. After building 200+ connectors that serve both, here's when each approach wins.
14 min read
Coursera MCP Server FAQ
Does StackOne have a Coursera MCP server?
Coursera MCP server vs direct API integration — what's the difference?
How does Coursera authentication work for AI agents?
origin_owner_id.Are Coursera MCP tools vulnerable to prompt injection?
What is the context bloat of a Coursera agent and how do I avoid it?
Can I limit which actions my Coursera agent can access?
Can I create custom agent actions for my Coursera MCP server?
When should I NOT use a Coursera MCP server?
What AI frameworks and AI clients does the StackOne Coursera MCP server support?
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