GUID MCP Server
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that generates a new Guid (v4, v7).
Using the MCP Server from NuGet.org
Once the MCP server package is published to NuGet.org, you can configure it in your preferred IDE. Both VS Code and Visual Studio use the dnx
command to download and install the MCP server package from NuGet.org.
- VS Code: Create a
<WORKSPACE DIRECTORY>/.vscode/mcp.json
file
- Visual Studio: Create a
<SOLUTION DIRECTORY>\.mcp.json
file
For both VS Code and Visual Studio, the configuration file uses the following server definition:
{
"servers": {
"GuidMCPServer": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "dnx",
"args": [
"pock-programming.guid-mcp",
"--version",
"0.1.0",
"--yes"
]
}
}
}
Developing locally
To test this MCP server from source code (locally) without using a built MCP server package, you can configure your IDE to run the project directly using dotnet run
.
{
"servers": {
"GuidMCPServer": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "dotnet",
"args": [
"run",
"--project",
"./GuidMCPServer/"
]
}
}
}
Testing the MCP Server
Once configured, you can ask Copilot Chat for a Guid, for example, Get me a new Guid
. It should prompt you to use the get_guidv4
tool on the GuidMCPServer
MCP server and show you the results.
Publishing to NuGet.org
- Run
dotnet pack -c Release
to create the NuGet package
- Publish to NuGet.org with
dotnet nuget push bin/Release/*.nupkg --api-key <your-api-key> --source https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
More information
.NET MCP servers use the ModelContextProtocol C# SDK. For more information about MCP:
Refer to the VS Code or Visual Studio documentation for more information on configuring and using MCP servers: