Prepare your local environment

An Azure Storage Emulator is needed for this particular sample because we will save and get snippets from blob storage.

1. Start Azurite

   docker run -p 10000:10000 -p 10001:10001 -p 10002:10002 \
       mcr.microsoft.com/azure-storage/azurite
   

Note if you use Azurite coming from VS Code extension you need to run Azurite: Start now or you will see errors.

Run your MCP Server locally from the terminal

1. Change to the src folder in a new terminal window:

   cd src
   

2. Install Python dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Note it is a best practice to create a Virtual Environment before doing the pip install to avoid dependency issues/collisions, or if you are running in CodeSpaces. See Python Environments in VS Code for more information.

1. Start the Functions host locally:

   func start
   

Note by default this will use the webhooks route: /runtime/webhooks/mcp/sse. Later we ...