Building an MCP Server with Helidon Declarative

AI assistants face several fundamental constraints when it comes to accessing private and local data: they have no access to your local file system, they generally lack browser contextual information (such as cookies) and cannot authenticate on your behalf to access protected resources. To illustrate this problem concretely, we’ll use Claude Desktop as our AI assistant throughout this article. Claude Desktop is a cross-platform application that’s simple to install and configure.