MCP Quickstart

Basic MCP server from the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Quickstart Guide adapted to work with the OpenAI chat completions and responses API's

Notes

• MCP configuration

  { "mcpServers": { "weather": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "<project_folder>", "run", "weather.py" ] } } }

• MCP inspector was very helpful in troubleshooting basic configuration issues

  npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

• Claude desktop works fine with this server

• I was not able to make this server work in PyCharm > AI Assistant > Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  • Constantly getting MCP error -1: Connection closed

  • Increasing the timeout didn't help LLM-16647

  • Since JetBrains AI Assistant plugin version: 251.26094.80.11 getting Not Started - LLM-17338

Links:

• https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/server

• https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/client

• https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create

• https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/object