Live Exam MCP Server

A minimal public MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint at /mcp. It exposes exactly one tool: solve_challenge.

Deploy on Render

1. Create a GitHub repository and upload main.py, requirements.txt, and render.yaml.

2. In Render, choose New → Blueprint and select that repository (or create a Python web service).

3. Wait for deployment to finish. Render provides an HTTPS URL such as https://your-service.onrender.com.

4. Submit the MCP endpoint URL, including /mcp: https://your-service.onrender.com/mcp.

5. Open the base URL in a browser; {"status":"ok","mcp_endpoint":"/mcp"} confirms the service is awake.

Related MCP server: IITM Live MCP Server

Protocol behavior

• Handles initialize, notifications/initialized, tools/list, tools/call, and ping.

• solve_challenge has no required input properties.

• Each call reads X-Exam-Challenge from that call's HTTP headers and returns the first 16 lowercase hex characters of SHA-256 of challenge:23f3003865@ds.study.iitm.ac.in.

• The challenge is never read from the JSON body. Signature verification is intentionally omitted because it is optional for grading.

Local test

python -m venv .venv
# Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
# macOS/Linux:
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn main:app --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000

Send MCP JSON-RPC requests to http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp. For a live grading URL, use the deployed HTTPS address.