Trying MCP for the First Time — What Stood Out

Introduction I spent some time exploring the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Not a deep dive—just a hands-on attempt to understand how it actually works. So I built a minimal client + server setup: 👉 https://github.com/an1meshk/claude-chat-cli In a real-world project, we will build client and server separately; however, as this was just a demo project, everything was built in the same project A few things stood out more than I expected. Demo 🧠 Context The goal wasn’t to learn everything about MCP.