Building a basic MCP server with GLM 5.2 in Claude Code

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-06-23 · Open on X

Topics: AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: intermediate

Summary

The creator used GLM 5.2 inside Claude Code through Z.ai's official coding plan, and it reliably built a basic MCP server. This shows you can use a different model behind Claude Code for simple agent-tooling tasks.

Key points

• GLM 5.2 was consistent at building a simple MCP server.
• You can run it inside Claude Code through Z.ai's official GLM coding plan.
• It works well for basic MCP scaffolding; the creator was still testing harder tasks.

Resources mentioned

• GLM 5.2 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A GLM-family LLM (the transcript says 'GLM-5-2') that the demo ranked as a strong, affordable model for coding and design.
  Also in: Qwen3.8-Max on the Frontend Code Arena cost-performance frontier (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Models That Work With the Hermes Agent for Personal Productivity (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open Model GLM 5.2 Helped Mitigate OpenAI-Caused Cyberattack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 27 more
• Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
  Also in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 101 more
• Z.ai (@Zai_org) on X · person · x.com · free
  Official X account of Z.ai, maker of the GLM models and the GLM coding plan.
  Also in: Open models now dominate token volume on Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM 5.3 Open Weights Release Delayed for Framework Support (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Trying ZCode by Z.ai with GLM 5.2 on a Mac (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 9 more

Try this

• Try GLM 5.2 in Claude Code with the Z.ai coding plan.
• Build a basic MCP server with GLM 5.2 in Claude Code.