helloworld-demo-mcp

A tiny MCP server over streamable HTTP that exposes one tool: hello_world.

The tool returns a plain English greeting plus the current UTC time.

What is included

one MCP tool: hello_world
streamable HTTP transport for MCP clients
a /healthz endpoint for container probes
a Docker image
a Helm chart
GitHub Actions to build and publish the image to GitHub Container Registry

Local development

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e '.[dev]'
pytest

Run the server locally

helloworld-demo-mcp --transport streamable-http --host 127.0.0.1 --port 3000

Or print a short description and exit:

helloworld-demo-mcp --describe

Call the MCP tool

The server exposes its MCP endpoint at /mcp when running in streamable HTTP mode.

Example with an MCP client:

import asyncio

from mcp.client.session import ClientSession
from mcp.client.streamable_http import streamablehttp_client


async def main():
    async with streamablehttp_client("http://127.0.0.1:3000/mcp") as (read_stream, write_stream, _):
        async with ClientSession(read_stream, write_stream) as session:
            await session.initialize()
            result = await session.call_tool("hello_world", {})
            print(result)


asyncio.run(main())

Docker

Build and run the container:

docker build -t helloworld-demo-mcp:local .
docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 helloworld-demo-mcp:local

The health check should then succeed:

curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/healthz

Helm

Render the chart:

helm template helloworld-demo-mcp charts/helloworld-demo-mcp

Install it into a namespace:

helm upgrade --install helloworld-demo-mcp charts/helloworld-demo-mcp \
  --namespace helloworld-demo-mcp \
  --create-namespace

GitHub Container Registry

The GitHub Actions workflow publishes images to:

ghcr.io/Jasonrve/helloworld-demo-mcp

Tags are emitted for the branch SHA and for release tags when you push them.