How to Build Your First MCP Server for Claude Code

Walkthrough for building a working MCP server in Python with FastMCP and registering it with Claude Code on the current stable release. Steps covered: - 00:00 Building an MCP server for Claude Code - 00:42 Prerequisites and setup requirements - 01:20 Create project and install FastMCP - 02:30 Write the MCP server file - 03:47 Register server with Claude Code - 04:52 Test the weather MCP server - 05:30 Troubleshooting common failures Links: - Model Context Protocol docs: https://modelcontextprotocol.io - Claude Code docs: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code - FastMCP GitHub: https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp - uv package manager: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv - Python version used: 3.11 - FastMCP version used: latest stable on PyPI