Preface

Recently, I have been used to writing in English.
This is the my first English post ever, which is about MCP server construction. This post will introduce the basic concepts of MCP server construction and provide some examples.

Intrduction

Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, is a protocol that allows a client to interact with a server in a standardized way. It is used to provide a consistent interface for clients to access and manipulate data on the server.

How did I find it? Since I started using AI models, I’ve been persuing a way to automate my workflow with them. However, every program I tried to implement with automation ended up with nothing stable.

I began to search for a solution to this problem. Then I found that MCP server construction might be a good way to solve this problem.

How do I Begin?

My first step is to construct a simply example MCP server, using Python. Simultaneously, I’m getting use to Zed editor, which is well integrated with AI functionalities.

The first project is to let AI complete a science computing toolkit in Python, I gave it the target and a set of tools:

  • execute shell command (with my approval)
  • create and edit files
  • read files

Then it automatically working by itself, I saw it write project plans, start working day by day, writing examples, and record what it did. Finally it actually realize a comprehension project, which may be too hard for me to finish. It’s fantastically amazing, and that’s why I’m writing this post.