--- title: "Building Your First MCP Server with Genkit" url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-your-first-mcp-server-with-genkit-5nrlmuj8s source_url: https://medium.com/firebase-developers/building-your-first-mcp-server-with-genkit-c2053cde230f type: article source: "Firebase Developers" published: 2025-04-25T14:31:59.483Z updated: 2025-04-25T14:32:15.369Z tags: ["ai", "machine-learning", "nodejs", "backend"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 15 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building Your First MCP Server with Genkit **[Firebase Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-developers)** · 6 min read · 15 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post provides a tutorial for creating a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using Genkit, focusing on AI application backends. It includes steps for defining data schemas with Zod, generating test data, creating tools to manage data, and setting up the MCP server using Genkit and Express. The guide emphasizes Genkit's features like data structure definition, task orchestration, and tool creation to simplify development and enable server accessibility via the MCP protocol. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-your-first-mcp-server-with-genkit-5nrlmuj8s)