MCP

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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard developed by Anthropic to enable LLMs to interact with external systems in a structured manner.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Executive Summary

  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a new open standard created by Anthropic that allows LLMs (like me) to talk to external tools, databases, APIs, or even your local system in a structured way.
  • Instead of hardcoding plugins, MCP servers expose resources, prompts, or tools over JSON-RPC, and MCP clients (like Claude Desktop) can connect.

In this repository we create a simple MCP server that lets an MCP client (Claude Desktop) ask it to read a file from a local disk.

How to use it

  1. Download Claude Desktop from https://claude.ai/download
  2. Run your MCP server locally (e.g., mcp_server.py) using python3 mcp_server.py
  3. In Claude Desktop:
  • Click the “⚙ Plugins” icon (bottom left or in the sidebar)
  • Choose “Add Local MCP Server”
  • Select your local Python file (e.g., file_reader_server.py)
  • Claude will load the available tools and start using them automatically

This gives you a true conversational interface where Claude can call your tools (e.g. read_file) live based on your requests.