> I don't find much value in the stdio transport stuff and really only care about the http/sse side ... I found that the docs at modelcontextprotocol.org are somewhat lacking. They seem to assume that you want to use stdio and don't have much meat on setting up sse.

Yeah, it's expected that you'll use stdio by default, because it's expected that MCP servers run locally to the client that connects to them, and in that case stdio is both simpler and faster.