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fix inspector images. add graph setup. link to odyssey
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docs/source/get-started/index.mdx

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title: Get Started
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subtitle: Run Apollo MCP Server
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subtitle: Run Apollo MCP Server for the first time
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1. Click **Connect**, then click **List Tool**. Inspector should show the tools from your server.
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1. Restart Claude, then check that your server's tools are available from the input box.
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1. Ask a question that exercises the tools.
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## Next steps
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Get more practice with using AI and Apollo with our [interactive tutorials](https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/browse/?categories=AI).
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- Try creating tools from operations in persisted queries, via [persisted query manifests](/apollo-mcp-server/guides/#from-persisted-query-manifests) or [GraphOS](/apollo-mcp-server/guides/#from-graphos-managed-persisted-queries).

docs/source/guides/index.mdx

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A typical workflow for Apollo MCP Server:
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1. Download or build Apollo MCP Server.
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A typical workflow for developing with Apollo MCP Server:
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1. Download (or build) an MCP server binary or container.
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1. Set up the graph that the MCP server sits in front of.
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1. Define the GraphQL operations to expose as MCP tools.
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1. Configure and deploy your MCP server.
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1. Connect your MCP client and use the tools.
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1. Configure and run your MCP server.
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1. Connect an MCP client and run the tools.
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## Get server
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## How to get Apollo MCP Server
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### Download binary
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## Set up graph
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An Apollo MCP Server must know the GraphQL API of the graph it supports. Thus, you must provide the `--schema` option when running the server.
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The `--schema` option provides the [API schema](/graphos/schema-design/federated-schemas/schema-types#api-schema) of the graph to the server.
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### From schema introspection
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For use cases where not all operations can be pre-defined, Apollo MCP Server supports tool creation based on graph introspection. This allows AI agents to explore a graph and execute operations dynamically.
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For use cases where not all operations can be pre-defined, Apollo MCP Server supports tool creation based on introspection of the graph schema. This allows AI agents to explore a graph and execute operations dynamically.
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To enable these schema aware tools, run the MCP server with the `--introspection` option, which exposes two new tools:
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To enable these schema-aware tools, run the MCP server with the `--introspection` option, which exposes two new tools:
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* `schema` - returns the GraphQL schema
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* `execute` - executes an operation on the GraphQL endpoint
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