A lightweight demo server that shows how to build MCP tools with the Smithery CLI. It exposes a single greeting tool you can test by saying "Say hello to John" and includes a Pirate Mode toggle for themed responses. The source is bare bones, just enough scaffolding to understand the Smithery development workflow: run locally with uv, test in their playground, then push to GitHub and deploy through their platform. This is what you'd clone if you're learning the Smithery stack and want a working example to build from, not something you'd actually run in production unless you really need AI generated hellos.
An MCP server built with Smithery CLI
Run the server:
uv run dev
Test interactively:
uv run playground
Try saying "Say hello to John" to test the example tool.
Your server code is in src/hello_server/server.py. Add or update your server capabilities there.
Ready to deploy? Push your code to GitHub and deploy to Smithery:
Create a new repository at github.com/new
Initialize git and push to GitHub:
git add .
git commit -m "Hello world 👋"
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_REPO.git
git push -u origin main
Deploy your server to Smithery at smithery.ai/new