Gen-AI Developer Classroom notes 02/Jul/2025

Lets play with mcp

• Ensure Claude Desktop is installed.
• Lets run a simple mcp server and interact with claude desktop
• In todays session the claude desktop will be used as mcp host
• Mcp servers might be developed in python or nodejs or java or c#

• MCP servers can also run in docker containers

• Lets install nodejs and npm using nvm

  • Windows winget install -e --id CoreyButler.NVMforWindows
  • mac brew install nvm
• execute nvm install lts

Adding Claude desktop config

• Navigate to File -> Settings -> Developer -> Edit Config
• Which opens a folder where you will find claude_desktop_config.json
• open this file in any text editor
• Refer Here to this add this config

• Refer Here for official docs

• We have used the following configuration

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "playwright": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "@playwright/mcp@latest"
            ]
        },
        "windows-cli": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@simonb97/server-win-cli"
            ]
        }
    }
}

• Exercise: Try some mcp servers with claude.