JLPT Study MCP Server

A tiny Model Context Protocol server that connects Claude Desktop to my personal Japanese study data — Anki due cards and a local study session log. Built after completing Anthropic's Introduction to MCP and MCP Advanced Topics courses, as a way to apply what those courses taught instead of just collecting the certificates.

What it demonstrates

Related MCP server: Anki MCP Server

Setup

1. Install Anki (free) and the AnkiConnect add-on, then restart Anki.

2. Create a virtual environment and install dependencies:

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate   # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Register the server with Claude Desktop by adding it to claude_desktop_config.json (see below).

4. Restart Claude Desktop. You should see a 🔨 tools icon confirming the server connected.

Example usage in Claude Desktop

• "What Japanese cards do I have due today?"

• "I just finished a 25 minute Bunpro lesson on te-form, log it."

• "What's my study streak?"

• "Quiz me on today's deck."

Stretch goal

v1 uses stdio transport (local only). A planned v2 migrates to StreamableHTTP so the server could run on a small remote host instead of only on my own machine — applying the transport concepts from the Advanced Topics course.

Tech

Python, MCP Python SDK (FastMCP), AnkiConnect API.