Build a FastMCP server with OAuth 2.1 auth for remote Claude agent connections

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Verified steps

  1. Install the official MCP Python SDK: pip install mcp[cli] (FastMCP is included in the mcp package)
  2. Decorate Python functions with @mcp.tool() to expose them as callable tools and @mcp.resource() for read-only URI-addressable data
  3. For remote hosting, switch transport from stdio to HTTP (Streamable HTTP) and configure an OAuth 2.1 authorization server
  4. Implement Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) so AI clients can auto-register at runtime without manual client-id setup
  5. Add PKCE (S256) enforcement on all authorization code flows — OAuth 2.1 requires PKCE for public clients
  6. Expose /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server metadata (RFC 8414) and /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (RFC 9728) for client discovery

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