"""A tiny MCP server that gives an AI client hands on the tasks-app. It exposes the tasks-app over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) so an agentic tool can read and change your real task list directly, with no copy-paste and no pasting tasks.json into a chat window. The whole server is the decorated functions below. FastMCP (from the official Python SDK) turns each `@mcp.tool()` function into a tool the AI client can discover and call. That's it: a tool is a normal Python function plus a docstring the client reads to know what it does. Setup (once): pip install "mcp[cli]" Drop this file into your tasks-app folder, next to tasks.py and cli.py (it reuses them, and shares the same tasks.json, so a task the AI adds through this server shows up in `python3 cli.py list`). Sanity-check that it starts (it will sit waiting for a client to talk to it; Ctrl-C to stop): python3 tasks_mcp_server.py You don't normally run it by hand, though. Your agentic tool launches it for you; see the lab. """ import json from pathlib import Path from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP from tasks import Task, TaskList STATE = Path(__file__).parent / "tasks.json" # The name is how the server identifies itself to the client. mcp = FastMCP("tasks") def _load() -> TaskList: if not STATE.exists(): return TaskList() raw = json.loads(STATE.read_text()) return TaskList(tasks=[Task(**t) for t in raw]) def _save(tlist: TaskList) -> None: STATE.write_text(json.dumps([t.__dict__ for t in tlist.tasks], indent=2)) @mcp.tool() def list_tasks() -> str: """List every task in the tasks-app, with its index and whether it's done.""" return _load().render() @mcp.tool() def add_task(title: str) -> str: """Add a new task to the tasks-app. `title` is the text of the task to add.""" tlist = _load() tlist.add(title) _save(tlist) return f"added: {title}" if __name__ == "__main__": # stdio transport by default: the client launches this process and talks to it over # stdin/stdout. That's why the server "just sits there" when you run it by hand: it's # waiting for a client on the other end of the pipe. mcp.run()