MCP Server Template

A minimal MCP (Model Context Protocol) server template managed with uv, exposing a string-reversal tool and basic two-integer arithmetic tools (add, subtract, multiply, divide).

📌 Feature

• uv for dependency management

• TOML + Pydantic based config

• reverse_string tool

• add / subtract / multiply / divide tools

• Centralized logging (loguru)

• Custom exception handling

• Standalone stdio client for manual testing

Related MCP server: DDG MCP1234

📁 Project Structure

The directory structure of the project looks like this:

├── LICENSE
├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── client.py
├── main.py
├── configs
│   └── config.toml
├── outputs
├── pyproject.toml
└── src
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── app.py
    ├── server
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   └── server.py
    └── utils
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── config.py
        ├── exceptions.py
        ├── logger.py
        └── models.py

🚀 Getting Started

Step 1: Install dependencies

uv sync

Step 2: Run the server

uv run python main.py
# or
make run

The server communicates over stdio and is meant to be launched by an MCP client (see Step 3), not run standalone in a terminal.

Step 3: Try it with the bundled client

uv run python client.py
# or
make client

This spawns main.py as a subprocess over stdio, lists the available tools, then prompts you to try reverse_string and the arithmetic tools.

Step 4 (optional): Inspect it with the MCP Inspector

uv run mcp dev main.py:mcp

Opens a browser UI to browse and call the registered tools interactively. main.py exposes a lazily-built mcp attribute for this purpose (see __getattr__ at the bottom of the file) — normal runs via make run / make client don't trigger it.

📜 References

• Model Context Protocol

• MCP Python SDK

• uv