MCP Server Development Guide

Build production-grade MCP servers that expose tools, resources, and prompts to LLM applications like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible clients.

When to load supplementary files:

• Understanding MCP architecture → see architecture-overview.md
• Implementing tools (model-controlled functions) → see tools-implementation.md
• Exposing resources (application-controlled data) → see resources-implementation.md
• Creating prompt templates → see prompts-implementation.md
• TypeScript server quickstart → see server-quickstart-typescript.md
• Python server quickstart → see server-quickstart-python.md
• Security, validation, and best practices → see security-and-best-practices.md
• Debugging and testing with MCP Inspector → see debugging-and-testing.md

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