Go Coffee Shop FAQs

Question 1

What features does Go Coffee Shop offer?

Accepted Answer

It's MCP 2025-03-26 compliant, supports stdio and HTTP transports, offers graceful shutdown, configurable timeouts, structured logging, error handling, and validation. It showcases best practices for Go project layout.

Question 2

What is Go Coffee Shop?

Accepted Answer

Go Coffee Shop is an example implementation of an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server written in Go. It provides a coffee shop domain with tools, resources, and prompts for building LLM-powered applications.

Question 3

How do I add new functionalities?

Accepted Answer

New functionalities are added by implementing new handlers. The reference documentation describes a step-by-step approach with an example involving a weather handler.

Question 4

What transport options are available?

Accepted Answer

Go Coffee Shop supports two transports: stdio (standard input/output) and HTTP (with Server-Sent Events). stdio is ideal for command-line tools and the MCP Inspector, while HTTP provides a RESTful API.

Question 5

How can I use MCP Inspector with Go Coffee Shop?

Accepted Answer

Run the server with the 'stdio' transport (using `go run ./... --transport stdio`). Then, start MCP Inspector and configure it to connect to the server using the 'go run ./...' command.

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