Quick start
Run the command in your terminallocalhost
. Open that link up to see the inspector.
If you don’t have Node.js installed, check out our desktop app.
Connect to your first MCP server
Click on “Add server” and connect to your first MCP server
@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything
is the example server from AnthropicTest an MCP tool
Go to the “Tools” tab. You’ll be able to see all of the MCP toolsserver-everything
has. Tools tab lets you test individual tools with configured params.
Try testing out the add
tool and set params for a
and b
. Upon hitting “Execute”, you should see the tool’s return value on the bottom.

Try other features
Hope this showed you the basics of the inspector. Explore additional parts of the inspector:- Advanced server connections (HTTP/SSE, STDIO, Auth)
- LLM playground
- Prompts testing
- Resources testing
- Tracing
- Elicitation
- Evals (CLI)