Unit 9 · Connect to external tools and data

Discover what an MCP server offers

You inspect the negotiated catalog for tools, prompts, resources, templates, and capabilities. Your app uses server-owned identifiers instead of guessing them.

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mcp = AxMCPClient(AxMCPStreamableHTTPTransport(endpoint), {"namespace": "inventory"})
    catalog = mcp.inspect_catalog()
    {"mcp": mcp},
    mcp.close()

Run itIn your own project

pip install axllm

from axllm import ai, ax

llm = ai('openai', api_key=os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'])
classify = ax('review:string -> sentiment:class "positive, negative, neutral"')

Set OPENAI_APIKEY in your environment before running provider-backed code.

In the ax repo

From a clone of the ax repo:

npm run example -- python src/examples/python/mcp/native-mcp-tools.py

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