Trying MCP for the First Time — What Stood Out

Introduction I spent some time exploring the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Not a deep dive—just a hands-on attempt to understand how it actually works. So I built a minimal client + server setup: 👉 https://github.com/an1meshk/claude-chat-cli In a real-world project, we will build client and server separately; however, as this was just a demo project, everything was built in the same project A few things stood out more than I expected. Demo 🧠 Context The goal wasn’t to learn everything about MCP. It was to answer a simpler question: How hard is it to actually build something with it? Before moving further, here is a quick MCP client and server architecture diagram: ⚙️ What I Tried Went through the MCP intro course - link Built a minimal client and server in Python using the course’s startup kit Connected it to a simple CLI chat client that already came with the startup kit Nothing complex—but enough to see how things fit together. 💡 What Stood Out 1. Setup Is Simpler Than Expected I