microsoft/mcp-for-beginners

This open-source curriculum introduces the fundamentals of Model Context Protocol (MCP) through real-world, cross-language examples in .NET, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust and Python. Designed for developers, it focuses on practical techniques for building modular, scalable, and secure AI workflows from session setup to service orchestration.

17.4k stars · 5.6k forks · Jupyter Notebook

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 71% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.)

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 138
Human commits, 90 days: 375
Human commits, 365 days: 1.4k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 39%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (2 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (2 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 7
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 39 hours

Responsiveness: of 6 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 6 days.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 303 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 2
Contributors: 66

Top committers

leestott: 71% of commits
hyoshioka0128: 26% of commits
skytin1004: 1% of commits
georgeatparallel: 1% of commits
publora-team: 1% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

May 18, 2025 to Jun 28, 2025: about 4k more stars than usual, peak 242 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 4, 2025 to Aug 13, 2025: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 673 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 1, 2025 to Nov 6, 2025: about 453 more stars than usual, peak 191 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 4, 2026 to Mar 12, 2026: about 718 more stars than usual, peak 382 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 8, 2026 to Jun 10, 2026: about 146 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

5 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: microsoft/mcp-for-beginners

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 14, 2026: Caution

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