> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mcpjam-include-cli-start.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> The MCPJam inspector can be started with a `npx` command

## Quick start

Run the command in your terminal

```bash
npx @mcpjam/inspector@latest
```

After installing the package, you should see a link to `localhost`. Open that link up to see the inspector.

If you don't have Node.js installed, check out our [desktop app](https://mcpjam.com).

## Connect to your first MCP server

Click on "Add server" and connect to your first MCP server

```
npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything
```

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/mcpjam-include-cli-start/hpT17B5DcSDHZkCd/images/everything-demo.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=hpT17B5DcSDHZkCd&q=85&s=7ed92d8ae7c4a908a77427fb5e1c1136" alt="Server everything demo" width="2746" height="1466" data-path="images/everything-demo.png" />
</Frame>

Once you hit submit, you should see the connection status as "Connected". This page is your server connections page. You can connect to multiple MCP servers simulatenously on MCPJam.

<Info>
  `@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything` is the example server from Anthropic
</Info>

## Test an MCP tool

Go to the "Tools" tab. You'll be able to see all of the MCP tools `server-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.

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/mcpjam-include-cli-start/hpT17B5DcSDHZkCd/images/tool-add.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=hpT17B5DcSDHZkCd&q=85&s=6c0c61402b86b090d5d8d86d5e79ed96" alt="Add tool demo" width="2744" height="1462" data-path="images/tool-add.png" />
</Frame>

## 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)