mcp-tools-server

Small remote MCP server for course experiments with Model Context Protocol

The project exposes custom MCP tools over Streamable HTTP

Current tools

get_recent_commits

Returns recent commits from a public GitHub repository

Input parameters:

• owner — GitHub repository owner, for example JetBrains

• repo — GitHub repository name, for example kotlin

• limit — number of commits to return, from 1 to 10

Example input:

{
  "owner": "JetBrains",
  "repo": "kotlin",
  "limit": 3
}

The tool calls the public GitHub REST API and returns a short text summary with commit SHA, message, author, date and URL

start_price_watch

Starts periodic price monitoring for a market symbol and stores snapshots in JSON

Input parameters:

• symbol — market symbol, for example BTCUSDT

• intervalSeconds — collection interval in seconds, from 10 to 3600

get_price_watch_summary

Returns an aggregated summary for collected price snapshots

Summary includes:

• snapshots count

• first and last price

• min and max price

• average price

• absolute and percentage change

• recent snapshots

stop_price_watch

Stops periodic price monitoring for a market symbol and removes stored watch state

search_recent_commits

Searches recent commits for a public GitHub repository

This tool is used as the first step of the MCP tool composition pipeline

Input parameters:

• owner — GitHub repository owner, for example JetBrains

• repo — GitHub repository name, for example kotlin

• limit — number of commits to fetch, from 1 to 20

summarize_text

Creates a short deterministic summary for provided text

This tool is used as the second step of the MCP tool composition pipeline

Input parameters:

• title — summary title

• sourceText — source text to summarize

save_note_to_file

Saves provided note content to a Markdown file

This tool is used as the third step of the MCP tool composition pipeline

Input parameters:

• title — note title used for file name

• content — Markdown content to save

Saved notes are created in:

storage/notes/

echo

Simple test tool that returns the input text back to the client

Used to verify that MCP tool calls work

Related MCP server: mcp-github-server

Storage

Price watch data is stored locally in:

storage/price-watch-state.json

Pipeline notes are stored locally in:

storage/notes/

Runtime storage files are created automatically and are not committed to Git

Endpoints

GET /

Health-check endpoint

Example response:

{
  "service": "mcp-tools-server",
  "status": "ok",
  "tools": [
    "echo",
    "get_recent_commits",
    "start_price_watch",
    "get_price_watch_summary",
    "stop_price_watch",
    "search_recent_commits",
    "summarize_text",
    "save_note_to_file"
  ]
}

POST /mcp

MCP endpoint for Streamable HTTP clients

Run locally

Install dependencies:

npm install

Start development server:

npm run dev

Build project:

npm run build

Start compiled version:

npm start

By default the server runs on port 3000.

Local MCP endpoint:

http://localhost:3000/mcp

Test with MCP Inspector

Start the server:

npm run dev

Run MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

Use the following settings:

Transport Type: Streamable HTTP
URL: http://localhost:3000/mcp

Then open the Tools tab, list available tools and run the required tool

Notes

Current limitations:

• only public GitHub repositories are supported;

• GitHub requests are unauthenticated;

• unauthenticated GitHub API rate limits apply;

• the price watcher uses an in-process setInterval scheduler and JSON file storage;

• locally, scheduled jobs work while the Node.js process is running;

• summarize_text uses deterministic text processing, not an LLM.