Starter MCP Server

Starter mcp server lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients work with Starter directly. A simple MCP server built with TypeScript.

What Starter does

A simple Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation using TypeScript and the official MCP SDK.

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call these 7 tools directly:

• echo — Echoes back the input text
• add_numbers — Adds two numbers together
• get_current_time — Returns the current date and time
• get_flight_status — Get real-time flight status using flight number (supports both mock and real API data)
• Tools — The Tools tool exposed by this server
• Resources — The Resources tool exposed by this server
• Testing — The Testing tool exposed by this server

Installing the starter mcp server

Setup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

Configuration

Before the server will start you need to supply one environment variable: AVIATIONSTACK_API_KEY. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

Where it fits

Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Starter sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — echo, add_numbers, get_current_time among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

• This server runs locally, so it operates with whatever access your machine and its credentials already have. Scope that deliberately rather than by default.
• It will not start until its required credentials are present, so set those before wondering why the tools never appear.
• With 7 tools exposed, expect a noticeable bump in prompt size — disable it in projects that never use Starter.
• Maintained by sumitvairagar, written in TypeScript.
• MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the starter mcp server actually does with your data.
• Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.