MCP Markdown Template

🚀 Core Idea

Transform markdown templates (like GitHub Issue templates) into MCP tools automatically. Write a template once, get both a FastAPI endpoint and an MCP tool.

🏗️ Architecture

mcp_tools/
├── models.py      # Data models (Template, TemplateVariable)
├── loader.py      # Load templates from files, directories, URLs
├── parser.py      # Extract variables & render with Jinja2
├── generator.py   # Create FastAPI endpoints dynamically
└── server.py      # FastMCP server with CORS

How it works:

1. Load - Fetch templates from local files, directories, or URLs
2. Parse - Extract <variables> and metadata from YAML frontmatter
3. Generate - Create typed FastAPI endpoints with Pydantic models
4. Serve - Expose as both REST API (/api/docs) and MCP tools (/mcp)

🌟 Features

• Auto-generate MCP tools from markdown templates
• Multiple sources - Load from local files, directories, or URLs
• Swagger UI - Test endpoints at /api/docs
• Docker ready - Production-ready container setup
• CI/CD - GitHub Actions for automated workflows

🛠️ Getting Started

Local Development

Install dependencies:

uv sync

Run the MCP server:

uv run uvicorn mcp_tools.main:starlette_app --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000

Docker

Build the Docker image:

docker build -t docker.io/username/mcp-markdown-template:latest .

Run the container with various template sources:

# Mount local templates directory
docker run -i --rm -p 8000:8000 \
  -v /path/to/your/templates:/app/templates \
  -e MCP_TEMPLATES_SOURCE=/app/templates \
  docker.io/hsiangjenli/mcp-markdown-template:latest

# Load from URL (GitHub raw URL)
docker run -i --rm -p 8000:8000 \
  -e MCP_TEMPLATES_SOURCE=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hsiangjenli/mcp-markdown-template/refs/heads/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/demo.md \
  docker.io/hsiangjenli/mcp-markdown-template:latest

# Multiple sources (comma-separated)
docker run -i --rm -p 8000:8000 \
  -e MCP_TEMPLATES_SOURCE="/app/templates,https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owner/repo/main/template.md" \
  -v /path/to/local/templates:/app/templates \
  docker.io/hsiangjenli/mcp-markdown-template:latest

MCP Server configuration (for Claude Desktop, etc.):

{
	"servers": {
		"markdown-template": {
			"url": "http://localhost:8000/mcp",
			"type": "http"
		}
	},
	"inputs": []
}

Template Sources

Format	Example
Local directory	/path/to/templates/
Local file	/path/to/template.md
URL	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/.../template.md
Multiple	source1,source2 (comma-separated)

Environment Variables

Variable	Default
MCP_TITLE	Python MCP Template
MCP_DESCRIPTION	A template for creating MCP-compliant FastAPI
MCP_TEMPLATES_SOURCE	.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE

📚 Documentation

Build docs locally:

scripts/build_docs.sh && uv run mkdocs build