Tutorial demonstrates FastMCP Model Context Protocol low-level commands

This tutorial demonstrates how to interact with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) at a low level using standard Linux command-line tools and FastMCP. The author walks through setting up an MCP server, communicating over stdio and HTTP transports, discovering tools, resources, and prompts, handling HTTP streaming with progress notifications, and implementing OAuth authentication via Keycloak. Additionally, the tutorial highlights security risks in the protocol's CIMD mechanism. Open article →