Model Context Protocol Server for Smithery
MCP ServerFreeProvide a simple and effective way to demonstrate Model Context Protocol functionality. Easily deployable on Smithery, it allows you to echo text and retrieve the current time in various formats. Enhance your applications with seamless integration of real-time data and tools.
Capabilities5 decomposed
mcp server deployment on smithery infrastructure
Medium confidenceDeploys a Model Context Protocol server instance on Smithery's managed hosting platform, handling server lifecycle management, endpoint provisioning, and protocol compliance validation. The deployment abstracts away infrastructure concerns by providing a pre-configured runtime environment that automatically handles MCP protocol negotience, request routing, and connection management for client applications.
Smithery provides a purpose-built MCP deployment platform with automatic protocol validation and client discovery, rather than generic container hosting that requires manual MCP configuration
Faster time-to-deployment than Docker/Kubernetes for MCP servers, with built-in protocol compliance checking that prevents misconfigured tools from reaching clients
text echo tool via mcp protocol
Medium confidenceImplements a simple MCP tool resource that accepts text input and returns it unchanged, demonstrating the MCP tool invocation pattern with request/response serialization. The echo tool serves as a reference implementation showing how to define tool schemas, handle parameter validation, and return structured responses through the Model Context Protocol's standardized tool interface.
Provides a minimal, transparent echo tool that makes MCP protocol mechanics visible — useful for debugging client implementations and understanding request/response flow without business logic obscuring the protocol
Simpler than production tools for testing purposes, allowing developers to isolate protocol issues from application logic errors
time retrieval tool with multiple format outputs
Medium confidenceExposes a time-fetching MCP tool that returns the current system time in multiple formats (ISO 8601, Unix timestamp, human-readable, etc.), demonstrating how MCP tools can provide flexible output serialization. The tool queries the system clock and formats the result according to caller-specified format parameters, showcasing parameter-driven tool behavior within the MCP framework.
Demonstrates MCP tool parameter handling with format negotiation, showing how tools can adapt output serialization based on client requirements rather than returning fixed formats
More flexible than hardcoded time endpoints, allowing clients to request time in their preferred format without post-processing or multiple API calls
mcp protocol compliance validation and schema enforcement
Medium confidenceThe Smithery deployment platform validates that deployed MCP servers conform to the Model Context Protocol specification, enforcing correct tool schema definitions, request/response formats, and protocol version compatibility. This validation occurs at deployment time and runtime, preventing misconfigured tools from being exposed to clients and catching schema violations before they cause client-side failures.
Smithery performs automated MCP protocol validation at deployment time, preventing non-compliant servers from reaching clients — a safeguard not present in generic container hosting
Catches protocol violations before production exposure, unlike manual testing or post-deployment debugging with real clients
client discovery and tool catalog exposure
Medium confidenceSmithery's MCP server deployment automatically exposes tool definitions and server capabilities to connected clients through the MCP protocol's discovery mechanism, allowing LLM clients (like Claude) to discover available tools without manual configuration. The server advertises its tool schemas, parameters, and descriptions, enabling clients to understand what tools are available and how to invoke them.
Automatic tool discovery through MCP protocol eliminates manual tool registration, allowing clients to learn about available tools dynamically at connection time
More maintainable than hardcoded tool lists in clients, as tool changes on the server are automatically reflected without client updates
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Best For
- ✓solo developers prototyping MCP integrations
- ✓teams evaluating Model Context Protocol without infrastructure investment
- ✓non-technical founders building AI agent applications
- ✓developers learning MCP tool patterns
- ✓teams validating MCP client implementations
- ✓integration testers verifying protocol compliance
- ✓developers building time-aware AI agents
- ✓teams integrating real-time data into LLM prompts
Known Limitations
- ⚠Deployment tied to Smithery ecosystem — no multi-cloud portability
- ⚠Limited customization of runtime environment and resource allocation
- ⚠Scaling behavior and rate limits not documented in provided materials
- ⚠No stateful processing — purely pass-through functionality
- ⚠No input validation beyond basic type checking
- ⚠No error handling for malformed or oversized inputs
Requirements
Input / Output
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Provide a simple and effective way to demonstrate Model Context Protocol functionality. Easily deployable on Smithery, it allows you to echo text and retrieve the current time in various formats. Enhance your applications with seamless integration of real-time data and tools.
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