MCP Demo

• Demonstrating creating a simple MCP server
• Serving from Github Codespaces
• Connecting with OpenAI

To run MCP Server

Open codespace.

$ pip install uv
$ uv run --with fastapi --with mcp[cli] --with duckdb --with uvicorn uvicorn serve2:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 3001 --lifespan on

Tell VSCode to make the Port public (a popup should come up)

Copy public URL

To talk to server

Get client.py code on local machine

Will need .env file with OpenAI key

Replace MCP_URL in client.py with MCP url (add /mcp NO TRAILING SLASH to end)

Run client.py