MCP Quickstart

Basic MCP server from the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Quickstart Guide adapted to work with the OpenAI chat completions and responses API's

Notes

• MCP configuration

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "weather": {
        "command": "uv",
        "args": [
          "--directory",
          "<project_folder>",
          "run",
          "weather.py"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
  

• MCP inspector was very helpful in troubleshooting basic configuration issues

  npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
  

• Claude desktop works fine with this server
• I was not able to make this server work in PyCharm > AI Assistant > Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Constantly getting MCP error -1: Connection closed
  • Increasing the timeout didn't help LLM-16647
  • Since JetBrains AI Assistant plugin version: 251.26094.80.11 getting Not Started - LLM-17338

Links:

• https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/server
• https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/client
• https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create
• https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/object