Rajeev Ranjan

MCP - a open protocol for AI (LLM) to talk to other tools / systems / applications. Naive, but don’t judge me, I was judging AI capabilities with me being Naive   - So I asked Claude AI to create an MCP - An MCP the AI itself will use - Gave a website address to which MCP had to be created (with public APIs) - It Generated extensive, detailed code - I dwelled on it, fine tuned for my preference / requirements, it went ahead and did a bit more than I asked for. Website was analysed in minutes (amusing and scary) - I asked it to package it as executable package - I had configured file system MCP - So, Claude leveraged that and created a python project in filesystem and created Project with proper files and folder structure - Here comes Claude code (CC) - This python project of MCP server, was not in a running state - Asked CC to make the code runnable (of course I was in control (manual loop) of the changes it was making) - MCP server to run in local system (MacOs) needed some changes in trivial python code, CC made the changes - Interesting side part, during this whole process, it was also creating documentation, to install server, to run server and the MCP config for other tools - At times I had to say update the documentation - OOPS !! Code got changed, but what was changed ? - I asked CC to make this project version controlled. Oh my Devaa (God), it converted the project into a Git repo (local) - Created git related files, Auto committed all files. All I had to do was, say yes, go ahead - Well, we got side tracked, lets get back to MCP - So, now I asked CC to run the server (lazy to copy the command and run it in next tab terminal) - Obviously.. It had issues, and obviously it auto corrected the code - It wrote test cases, wrote test start script, tested it, committed the code and then - now it tells me, 'All fixed, Want to run?', Howdhu maga howdhu, run (yes dude yes, run) - MCP server started. I updated MCP configuration and restarted Claude Desktop - pssssttt….. curios? - :( Error: MCP server couldn’t be started - Again me being extremely (purposefully) lazy, told CC, you are being dumb, fix the startup error - I guess, I hurt its Ego. - It asked permissions for MCP server log file. whaaaat really ?, it wants to read log files now, wow. - It test ran with its test scripts, read the log, analysed like a nerd, updated the test files and code, reran until it was fixed and updated the documentation and also committed the code - What can I say, I was watching Christopher Nolan movie level events. - Finally, MCP worked, I tested few things, results were as expected.   It ain’t over, my architectural / Engineering hormones kicked in. How about containerisation ? How about productionising it ? How about Security & Authentication ? How about Performance & Scalability ? How about Operational Readiness ? How about AI Security, Gaurdrails ? Stay tuned, I will be back 🙂

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