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title: "MCP Server Development Guide - Air Market"
description: "Say you have a service or an API and you want an AI assistant to be able to use it, not just talk about it. The piece that makes that possible is called an MCP server, and this guide shows you how to…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/mcp-builder"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / MCP Server Development Guide

Skill by [Anthropic](/@anthropics)

# MCP Server Development Guide

For anyone wiring an AI model up to an outside service

## What this does

Say you have a service or an API and you want an AI assistant to be able to use it, not just talk about it. The piece that makes that possible is called an MCP server, and this guide shows you how to build one well. It covers doing this in Python or in Node and TypeScript. Reach for it when you are about to start building one.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Build an MCP server that integrates an external API or service
- Design tools that let models interact with an outside service
- Set it up in Python with FastMCP or TypeScript with the MCP SDK

## Information

**MCP Server Development Guide at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Anthropic](/@anthropics) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Languages | en |
| Size | 119 KB |
| Licence | _Not recorded_ |
| Repository | [anthropics/skills](https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/690f15cac7f7b4c055c5ab109c79ed9259934081/skills/mcp-builder) |
| GitHub stars | 190,171 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 140,053, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of MCP Server Development Guide and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What MCP Server Development Guide's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 690f15cac7f7b4c055c5ab109c79ed9259934081 |
| Content hash | fd98a5fdf583aa59b6f50eaf9f1de6801c430a9d0f0f301bfdf623a099a4303c |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/690f15cac7f7b4c055c5ab109c79ed9259934081/skills/mcp-builder/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for MCP Server Development Guide](/security/mcp-builder)

## About MCP Server Development Guide

A guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, the kind that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools.

Reach for it when you are building an MCP server to integrate an external API or service.

It supports either way of doing this: Python with FastMCP, or Node and TypeScript with the MCP SDK.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- LICENSE.txt - reference
- reference/evaluation.md - reference
- reference/mcp_best_practices.md - reference
- reference/node_mcp_server.md - reference
- reference/python_mcp_server.md - reference
- scripts/connections.py - script
- scripts/evaluation.py - script
- scripts/example_evaluation.xml
- scripts/requirements.txt - reference

## Questions

### Is MCP Server Development Guide safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of MCP Server Development Guide and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 690f15cac7f7, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/mcp-builder.

### How do I install MCP Server Development Guide?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/mcp-builder on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/690f15cac7f7b4c055c5ab109c79ed9259934081/skills/mcp-builder. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Anthropic](/@anthropics)

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