AI Engineering & Operator Quickstart Pack ⚡

Production-grade FastMCP servers, deterministic prompt evaluation guardrails, hybrid vector search checklists, and automation ROI scorecards for AI engineers and technical operators.

📦 What's Inside the Quickstart Pack

This repository provides open-source architectural blueprints and starter files designed to eliminate the initial 40+ hours of boilerplate when standing up enterprise AI workflows:

1. mcp_quickstart_server.py: A standalone FastMCP server implementation featuring:

   • In-memory token-bucket rate limiting (prevents runaway token-burning loops).

   • Strict Pydantic v2 input boundary validation.

   • Standardized JSON-RPC 2.0 error payloads and protocol compliance.

2. prompt_engineering_guardrails.md: The 10 production prompt patterns we enforce across agent deployments (XML boundary encapsulation, delimiter hygiene, negative constraint enforcement).

3. ai_workflow_audit_micro_scorecard.xlsx: Dynamic financial ROI model evaluating 10 automation workflows with sensitivity analysis.

4. rag_production_checklist.md: 12-point pre-launch verification checklist for hybrid dense/sparse search, chunking strategies, and cross-encoder reranking.

Related MCP server: my-mcp-server2

🚀 Quickstart

1. Clone & Setup Environment

git clone https://github.com/jonmarrs/mcp-agent-starter-kit.git
cd mcp-agent-starter-kit

# Create virtual environment using uv or standard venv
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
uv pip install "mcp>=1.0.0" "pydantic>=2.0.0"

2. Run the FastMCP Server

python mcp_quickstart_server.py

The server starts listening on stdio, ready to connect to Claude Desktop, Cursor, OpenClaw, or custom agent runners.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickstart": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["/path/to/mcp_quickstart_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

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📄 License & Attribution

• Quickstart Code & Blueprints: Licensed under the MIT License.

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