MCP Weather Client & Server Example with Typescript

This is a tutorial project demonstrating the use of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Anthropic's Claude models. The app includes a simple CLI-based client and a weather tools server, which communicates via MCP over stdio.

Features

• 🔌 MCP-compliant server exposing tools like get-alerts and get-forecast
• 🤖 CLI client using Anthropic Claude (via the @anthropic-ai/sdk) to call tools
• 🛠️ Written in TypeScript for the client and server
• 🌦️ Example tools provide weather alert and forecast info
• 🔐 Supports .env configuration with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js v20+
• An Anthropic API key
• NOTE: You will need credits added

Running

• In client: npm install && npm run build
• In server: npm install && npm run build
• In client: node build/index.js ../server/build/index.js