Quickstart Resources

Clone the official MCP quickstart resources repo from GitHub to access all sample servers and clients.

git clone https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/quickstart-resources.git
cd quickstart-resources

The repository contains a weather MCP server (demonstrates tool definitions, request handling, and external API calls) and an MCP client (demonstrates connecting to a server, listing tools, and routing LLM calls).

ls -la
# Look for server/ and client/ directories or language-specific subdirectories

Visit https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart to follow the step-by-step tutorial. Each tutorial matches one of the implementations in this repo and explains how to install dependencies and run the example.

Install dependencies and start the weather MCP server. The exact command depends on the language implementation you choose (Python or TypeScript).

# Python example:
pip install -r requirements.txt
python server.py

# TypeScript example:
npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js

Add the weather server to your claude_desktop_config.json so Claude can call its tools. Use the appropriate command for your implementation language.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "weather": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["/path/to/quickstart-resources/weather/server.py"]
    }
  }
}