Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Add Claude desktop quick start and update Cargo.toml of examples/servers, examples/clients #94

Merged

Conversation

Rayato159
Copy link
Contributor

Add quick-start documentation for using MCP counter example with Claude Desktop.
Improves onboarding for developers testing custom MCP servers with Claude.

Motivation and Context

Currently, there's no example in the documentation on how to configure and run a custom MCP Rust server with Claude Desktop.
This PR adds a clear step-by-step guide to help users build, configure, and interact with the counter example via Claude Desktop.

How Has This Been Tested?

Currently, there's no example in the documentation on how to configure and run a custom MCP Rust server with Claude Desktop.
This PR adds a clear step-by-step guide to help users build, configure, and interact with the counter example via Claude Desktop.

Breaking Changes

Tested locally on:

  • Windows 11
  • Claude Desktop v0.9.1
  • Verified that counter.say_hello, counter.increment, counter.get_value, and counter.sum work via Claude chat UI

Types of changes

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update

Checklist

  • I have read the MCP Documentation
  • My code follows the repository's style guidelines
  • New and existing tests pass locally
  • I have added appropriate error handling
  • I have added or updated documentation as needed

Additional context

Updated the config in Cargo.toml of examples/servers and examples/clients

@Rayato159
Copy link
Contributor Author

This is my screenshot while testing.
image

@jokemanfire
Copy link
Collaborator

That's well , Thanks!

@Rayato159 Rayato159 force-pushed the add-claude-desktop-examples branch from 8c90383 to da2f8bb Compare April 5, 2025 02:42
@Rayato159
Copy link
Contributor Author

That's well , Thanks!

I’ve updated the commit messages to meet the commit lint requirements.
Please take a look again when you get a chance. Thanks a lot!

@Rayato159 Rayato159 requested a review from jokemanfire April 5, 2025 04:32
@jokemanfire jokemanfire merged commit 57f2ba2 into modelcontextprotocol:main Apr 5, 2025
7 checks passed
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants