In the previous part of this series, I introduced the basic concepts of Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an open standard designed to streamline how AI models interact with external tools, data sources and resources. In this installment, I’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of building an MCP server and integrating it with Claude Desktop.
We’ll use Python and FastMCP 2.0 to build an MCP server that utilizes the FlightAware API. For more information on FlightAware, refer to the previous tutorial, where I integrated it with large language…