MCP Server Boilerplate

Production-ready starter templates for building Model Context Protocol servers in TypeScript and Python.

Skip the boilerplate. Start building tools your AI agents can actually use.

Server Capabilities

This boilerplate ships with working examples of all three MCP primitives:

Tools

Tool	Description	Parameters
echo	Echo a message back to the caller	message (string, required)
timestamp	Get the current UTC timestamp	(none)

Resources

URI	Description	MIME Type
server://info	Server metadata (name, version, available tools)	application/json

Prompts

No prompt templates are registered in the starter. The full kit includes prompt template patterns.

What's Included (Free)

TypeScript Quickstart

import { McpServer } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp.js";
import { StdioServerTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/stdio.js";

const server = new McpServer({
  name: "my-mcp-server",
  version: "1.0.0",
});

// Register a tool
server.tool("hello", { name: { type: "string" } }, async ({ name }) => ({
  content: [{ type: "text", text: `Hello, ${name}!` }],
}));

// Connect via stdio
const transport = new StdioServerTransport();
await server.connect(transport);

Python Quickstart

from mcp.server import Server
from mcp.server.stdio import stdio_server

app = Server("my-mcp-server")

@app.tool()
async def hello(name: str) -> str:
    """Say hello to someone."""
    return f"Hello, {name}!"

async def main():
    async with stdio_server() as (read, write):
        await app.run(read, write)

Claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "my-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["tsx", "src/index.ts"]
    }
  }
}

Project Structure

my-mcp-server/
├── src/
│   └── index.ts          # Server entry point
├── tools/
│   └── example.ts        # Tool definitions
├── resources/
│   └── example.ts        # Resource providers
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── claude_desktop_config.json

Getting Started

1. Clone this repo
2. npm install
3. npm run build
4. Add to your Claude Desktop config
5. Start building tools

Going Further

This free boilerplate gets you started. The MCP Server Boilerplate Kit ($49) includes:

• ✅ Full TypeScript + Python dual-language templates
• ✅ Docker containerization with multi-stage builds
• ✅ CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions) for automated testing & deployment
• ✅ SSE (Server-Sent Events) transport for web deployments
• ✅ 15+ pre-built tool examples (file ops, API calls, database queries)
• ✅ Resource and prompt template patterns
• ✅ Error handling, logging, and retry patterns
• ✅ Testing framework with mock MCP client
• ✅ Production deployment guide (Docker, systemd, cloud)
• ✅ Claude Desktop + Cursor + Windsurf integration configs

Get the full kit →

Resources

• MCP Specification
• MCP TypeScript SDK
• MCP Python SDK
• Claude Desktop MCP Docs
• Glama MCP Directory

License

MIT — use this however you want.