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An MCP server of your own

Something you would genuinely use, connected to two clients, documented well enough for a stranger to install.

Solo project200 minAI implements

Done when

  • At least three tools that do something you actually want, not a wrapper around a public API you never use
  • Schemas with enums and bounded parameters rather than free-form strings, and errors that say what to do differently
  • Works in Claude and in Cursor, with the configuration for both in the README
  • A written threat note: what the server can reach, what it refuses, and what you deliberately did not expose
  • Installable by a stranger from the README alone, with no undocumented environment assumptions

Nobody marks this for you. It goes into your phase checkpoint, where a person does.

You should now be able to

  • Ship a documented, installable MCP server
  • Design a tool surface that is narrow on purpose
  • Demonstrate it working in two different clients
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