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JLPT Study MCP Server

JLPT Study MCP Server

by NeuralDarsh

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

MCP Primitive

Implementation

Tool

get_due_cards — pulls due flashcards live from Anki via AnkiConnect

Tool

log_study_session — appends a study session to a local JSON log

Tool

study_streak — computes current daily streak from logged sessions

Resource

study://progress — read-only summary stats Claude can pull in as context

Prompt

quiz_me — a reusable template that turns due cards into an interactive quiz

Transport

stdio (local, per Introduction to MCP course)

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.

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