mcp-first-server
MCP serverCloud & infraThis community-built addition gives your AI the ability to fetch quotes and check live cryptocurrency prices. It can run on your local machine or be deployed to the cloud, so you can pick the setup that works for you. Once added, your AI can answer questions about current crypto prices on the spot.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
After adding it, ask your AI for a quote or the live price of a cryptocurrency to see it working. The source code is available at github.com/JGPAS/mcp-first-server.
Then ask your AI: use mcp-first-server to get quote
What your AI can do with it
- Fetch quotes whenever you ask
- Look up live cryptocurrency prices
- Answer crypto price questions with up-to-date data
- Run from your local machine or the cloud
From the project's README
As published by jgpas/mcp-first-server in README.md.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built with the official MCP SDK, available both as a local stdio server (for Claude Desktop) and as a cloud-deployed HTTP server reachable over the network.
Live demo: https://mcp-first-server.onrender.com (note: free-tier hosting, first request after inactivity may take up to ~50s to wake the instance)
Tools
- get_quote — returns a random motivational quote.
- get_crypto_price — fetches the live USD price of any cryptocurrency (via CoinGecko).
Two ways to run this server
server.js— stdio transport, for local use with Claude Desktop or any MCP client that spawns a local process.server-http.js— StreamableHTTP transport wrapped in Express, for cloud/network deployment (this is what's running at the live demo URL above). Listens onprocess.env.PORT.
Local setup
npm install
npm start # runs server.js (stdio)
node server-http.js # or run the HTTP version locally
Try the live HTTP endpoint
curl -X POST https://mcp-first-server.onrender.com/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Tech
Node.js, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, Express, Zod for schema validation. Deployed on Render.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Author
Built by James Ganobi.
Tools it offers (2)
What this server listed when ahel dialed its public endpoint in Sep 2026, with no key and no account of yours. The names are the server’s own.
get_quoteget_crypto_price
Signals
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Delivery
- mcp-first-server MCP server → your ahel gateway (mcp.ahel.ai) → every connected AI client.
- Catalog kind
- mcp-server
- Gateway key
io-github-jgpas-mcp-first-server- Source
- github.com/jgpas/mcp-first-server
- Hosted endpoint
https://mcp-first-server.onrender.com/mcp