MCP Quickstart
A basic MCP server from the Quickstart Guide, adapted for OpenAI's Chat Completions API.
Install
Install and configure the MCP from https://github.com/veysby/mcp-quickstart now. Follow the repository's installation instructions, ask me for anything you can't complete yourself, and verify its tools load.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.
chatkit/ — Chat Web App with MCP Backend
A full-stack chat application built on OpenAI ChatKit. The frontend is a React + Vite app; the backend is a FastAPI server that routes messages to MCP tool servers based on the selected composer mode.
- Echo mode — echoes user input back verbatim
- Weather mode — runs a LangChain agent backed by the
weather/MCP server; tool calls (get_alerts,get_forecast) are streamed live to the UI as a workflow with per-step status indicators
Requires Python 3.14+ for the backend.
Requirements
- Python 3.13+ and
uv - Node.js 18+ and npm (for
chatkit/) - Claude Desktop (for MCP Apps UI in the calculator project)
- OpenAI API key (for the weather client and chatkit weather agent)
See each subfolder's README.md for setup and run instructions.