MCP servers

Write your first MCP server and wire it to Claude

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard way to expose tools to any MCP-capable client, Claude Desktop, IDEs, or your own agents, so you write an integration once and reuse it everywhere. In this tutorial you build an MCP server in TypeScript that exposes a single typed tool over the stdio transport, test it with the MCP Inspector, then register it with Claude and call it from a real conversation. You will also learn the one rule that trips up everyone on stdio: never write to stdout. By the end you have a reusable server you can extend with your own tools.