What is itu-mcp?

This project connects a Turkish university's online systems to AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and Codex, so students at Istanbul Technical University, known as ITU, can ask questions about their coursework in plain language instead of clicking through several separate web portals. It runs locally on the student's own computer and acts as a bridge, using a standard called the Model Context Protocol, between the AI assistant and the university's Ninova course platform, its OBS student records portal, and other campus services. With a student's own login credentials, the tool can answer questions such as which assignments are due this week, what grades or attendance look like for a specific class, who a student's academic advisor is, or pull up a transcript. Without needing any login at all, it can also answer public questions like when final exams are scheduled, whether a specific book is available in the university library, or when the campus shuttle and swimming pool are open, since that information is publicly available on official university sources. The project is built with attention to keeping login details private: passwords are stored locally on the student's own machine and are only sent to the university's own login, course, and portal systems, never to any third party server. A separate library account, if used, is kept in its own session apart from the main university login. The project makes clear it has no official relationship with the university itself. Setting it up involves installing the tool through Python's package tools, adding a student's university email and password to a local configuration file, and then connecting it to an AI assistant such as Claude Code or Codex with a short command. Once connected, the student can simply ask their assistant natural language questions about their coursework and university life. It is released under the MIT license.