How to Set Up a Local MCP Server to Give Your LLM Access to Custom Tools
Stand up a working MCP server from scratch with Python’s FastMCP SDK, define custom tools with type hints, and connect it to Claude Desktop in under 30 minutes.
Stand up a working MCP server from scratch with Python’s FastMCP SDK, define custom tools with type hints, and connect it to Claude Desktop in under 30 minutes.
Create production-ready AI chat apps with streaming responses, tool calling, and provider switching using the Vercel AI SDK
Step-by-step guide to building production-ready AI search apps with Haystack’s component-based pipeline architecture.
Wrap any Python ML model in a web UI with Gradio and deploy it to Hugging Face Spaces in minutes
Skip the DevOps headache. Deploy production-ready AI models with automatic GPU scaling, no Kubernetes required.
Get sub-second LLM responses from Groq’s API with its OpenAI-compatible interface and custom AI accelerator chips
Use the Replicate API to run open-source AI models in the cloud with simple Python calls and pay per second
Call foundation models on AWS Bedrock using Python, with examples for inference, streaming, and RAG.
Cut your Claude API costs in half by batching requests with the Anthropic Message Batches API
Get Claude to cite its sources with exact quotes using the Anthropic citations API in Python
Stop re-uploading documents every request – use the Files API to upload once and reference by file ID
Send images to Claude for analysis, OCR, and visual Q&A using the Anthropic Python SDK with base64 and URL inputs
Get Claude to show its work on hard problems using the extended thinking API with budget tokens
Run high-volume Claude workloads at half price with the Message Batches API — batch creation, polling, and result parsing.
Wire up function calling across multiple turns with Claude, handling tool_use and tool_result messages
Extract data, summarize, and answer questions about PDFs using Claude’s built-in document processing
Cache system prompts, documents, and tool definitions with Anthropic’s prompt caching to slash latency and API costs
Pre-calculate token counts and costs for Claude API calls to manage your budget effectively
Reduce Claude API costs for tool-heavy agents using token-efficient tool mode and schema caching.
Stream Claude responses token-by-token into your UI with the Anthropic Python SDK streaming methods
Wire up Claude’s tool use to build agents that call functions, chain tools together, and handle multi-step tasks
Build multi-model chat apps with a single API using AWS Bedrock Converse for Claude, Llama, and Mistral
Get blazing-fast LLM inference from Cerebras hardware using their OpenAI-compatible Python API
Boost your search pipeline accuracy by reranking results with Cohere’s cross-encoder rerank models
Call DeepSeek’s R1 and V3 models for code and reasoning through their OpenAI-compatible API in Python.
Use the Fireworks AI API to get fast inference from Llama 3.1 70B, Mixtral, and other open models via the OpenAI Python SDK.
Send text, images, videos, and PDFs to Gemini via the Vertex AI SDK with structured JSON output and GCP authentication
Connect to OpenAI’s Realtime API over WebSockets for real-time voice input, text output, and function calling
Call 400+ LLMs from every major provider through a single API key and endpoint with OpenRouter.
Build AI-powered search into your apps using Perplexity’s Sonar models and the OpenAI SDK.
Call Stability AI’s hosted API to generate, edit, and upscale images without managing GPU infrastructure
Deploy open-source LLMs like Llama 3 and Mixtral at scale using Together AI’s fast inference API with Python examples.
Embed text and code with Voyage AI’s Python SDK to build fast similarity search and code retrieval tools
Set up W&B Weave to log every LLM call, track prompt changes, and visualize token costs across experiments
Connect to xAI’s Grok models using the OpenAI SDK with custom base URL for chat and tool use
Use Cohere’s chat, embed, rerank, and classify endpoints to build assistants with built-in citation grounding and tool use.
Chain prompts, models, and parsers into clean AI workflows using LCEL’s pipe syntax and built-in streaming
Build production apps with Gemini using the Python SDK for text generation, multimodal input, tool use, and streaming
Run open-source models through Hugging Face Inference Providers: chat completion, image generation, streaming, and error handling
Set up wandb experiment tracking with real code for logging, hyperparameter sweeps, artifacts, and framework integrations
Step-by-step guide to building your first MCP server in Python and wiring it into Claude Desktop
Route requests across OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, and dozens more providers using a single Python SDK and proxy server.
Learn the Anthropic Python SDK basics: messages, streaming, system prompts, and error handling
Set up the Mistral Python SDK for chat completions, Codestral, function calling, and streaming
Create AI agents that hand off tasks, call tools, and run with built-in tracing using OpenAI’s production agent framework.