Sales Analytics MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives an LLM safe, structured, read-only access to a sales database. Built with the official MCP Python SDK (FastMCP), it exposes analytics tools that a client like Claude Desktop can call to answer questions like "which region has the highest revenue?" or "show me the top 5 customers" — grounded in real query results, not the model's guesses.

What MCP is (and why this matters)

MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how LLM applications connect to external tools and data. A server advertises a set of tools; the client's LLM decides which to call and with what arguments; the server executes and returns structured results. Instead of an LLM hallucinating an answer about your data, it calls a tool and answers from what came back.

This server exposes five tools over stdio:

Related MCP server: DB MCP Gateway

The decision worth defending: read-only by construction

run_sql is the interesting tool, because an MCP tool is invoked by an LLM, and an LLM can be prompt-injected. So the tool must be safe even if the model is tricked into asking for something destructive. The guard rejects anything that isn't a single SELECT:

• must start with SELECT (or WITH … SELECT)

• no statement chaining (a semicolon is rejected outright)

• no write/DDL keywords anywhere (DROP, DELETE, UPDATE, INSERT, …)

There are 6 parametrized tests firing real attack strings (DROP TABLE customers, SELECT 1; DROP TABLE orders, …) and asserting every one is blocked. Treating the LLM as an untrusted caller is the core security posture of exposing tools this way.

Try it (no LLM required)

pip install -r requirements.txt
make db        # build the sample SQLite database
make test      # 16 tests, incl. 6 SQL-injection guards

Use it with Claude Desktop

1. make db to build the database.

2. Add src/server.py to claude_desktop_config.json (see claude_desktop_config.example.json — use an absolute path).

3. Restart Claude Desktop. The tools appear, and you can ask questions like "what's revenue by region?" and watch the model call revenue_by_region and answer from the result.

Design: pure logic + thin protocol layer

src/tools.py holds the tool logic as plain, dependency-free functions — so they're exhaustively unit-testable without a running MCP client. src/server.py is a thin FastMCP wrapper that turns each function into an advertised tool via @mcp.tool(), using type hints and docstrings to build the schema the LLM sees. Separating logic from protocol is what makes the security guards easy to test in isolation.

Skills demonstrated

Structure

src/build_db.py   sample SQLite sales database
src/tools.py      pure tool logic + SQL safety guards (no MCP dependency)
src/server.py     FastMCP server exposing the tools
tests/            16 tests incl. injection guards
claude_desktop_config.example.json

Note

The database is generated locally (src/build_db.py) so the server is self-contained. Point tools.DB_PATH at a real database with the same shape and the server is unchanged. The tools are read-only by design; adding write tools would mean adding authentication and per-tool authorization, which is deliberately out of scope for a read-only analytics surface.