MCP Quickstart Server

A basic MCP server from the Quickstart Guide, adapted for OpenAI's Chat Completions API.

GitHub

Documentation

MCP Learning Projects

Hands-on projects for understanding how to build applications using Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Projects

weather/ — MCP Server + Custom Client

A weather MCP server built from the official MCP Quickstart, extended with a custom Python MCP client that routes tool calls through the OpenAI Chat Completions and Responses APIs.

calculator/ — MCP Server with Resources and Interactive UI

A calculator MCP server that demonstrates MCP resources and MCP Apps — an extension that renders an interactive HTML calculator widget directly inside Claude Desktop.

Requirements

  • Python 3.13+ and uv
  • Claude Desktop (for MCP Apps UI in the calculator project)
  • OpenAI API key (for the weather client)

See each subfolder's README.md for setup and run instructions.