AIUC-MCP-Workshop

# AI User Conference ## Developer Day: Workshop 3 @ 12:00PM - Hari Patchigolla Link to Workshop: https://www.aiuserconference.com/speaker/hari-patchigolla Video Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMb_pr31k ### Overview In this 50 minute workshop we will go over the conceptual topics regarding MCPs and then go into creating our own MCP Clients and Servers using `mcp[cli]`, `FastMCP`, and `PaydanticAI` with `LogFire`! More specifically we will see how MCP address the current limitations of LLMs bound to tools with a real example of creating an Agentic perosnal finance system! ### Set Up 1. Git Clone this repository: ``` git clone https://github.com/hari-p02/AIUC-MCP-Workshop.git cd AIUC-MCP-Workshop ``` 2. Sync with `uv`: ``` uv sync ``` 3. Create a `.env` file in the root directory of the repository: ``` ANTHROPIC_API_KEY= GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS_FILE= GOOGLE_SHEETS_ID= LOGFIRE_TOKEN= SERVER_DETAILS=../server/server_details.yaml ``` 4. Create OAuth 2 Secrets from Google: [Video Tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKMgyF5ezFs&pp=ygUrY3JlYXRpbmcgT0F1dGgyIHNlY2VydHMgZnJvbSBnb2dvbGUgZm9yIGFwaQ%3D%3D) 5. Enable the Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Drive APIs 6. Copy the path to the downloaded `.json` credentials and save it in `GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS_FILE` on the `.env` file 7. Create a free LogFire account [here](https://logfire.pydantic.dev/). 8. Once you make an account you will get a token, this will be the value of `LOGFIRE_TOKEN` in the `.env` file. 9. Run `logfire auth` on the terminal, and you will be prompted to log in 10. Create a new google sheet **in the same account as your OAuth Credentials**! 11. Copy the sheet id (in the url) and set it to `GOOGLE_SHEETS_ID` in the `.env` file. 12. Download [this Personal Finance dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/bukolafatunde/personal-finance) from kaggle 13. Cope the contents of `personal_transactions.csv` into the google sheet you made above. 14. Delete the `Transation Type` and `Account Name` columns. 15. Make sure all the columns are in a row!!!