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Describe the bug After following the typescript mcp server tutorial verbatim, claude desktop cannot successfully use the new weather tools. Upon inspecting the logs, this is due to . Apparently a global isn't available in Node 16. It was introduced in Node 18. To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Follow the tutorial verbatim here: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/develop/build-server#typescript 2. Ask claude desktop about the weather forecast 3. It will fail and tell you "Failed to retrieve grid point data for coordinates: 38.5816, -121.4944. This location may not be supported by the NWS API (only US locations are supported)." 4. Ask claude desktop about weather alerts 5. It will fail and tell you "Failed to retrieve alerts data" Expected behavior It is expected that the MCP server we just configured with weather tools will work. Logs Another solution would be to manually configure it to use the right node executable:

Motivation and Context Add a weather server example using the MCP Ruby SDK and the National Weather Service API, following the same pattern as other language examples. https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk Types of changes [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality) [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change) [x] Documentation update Checklist [x] I have read the MCP Documentation [x] My code follows the repository's style guidelines [x] New and existing tests pass locally [x] I have added appropriate error handling [x] I have added or updated documentation as needed

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