MCP Workshop: Power AI Agents with Secure, Real-Time Access to Your APIs

Modern AI agents can do more than chat—they can take action. In this beginner-friendly session, you’ll get hands-on with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Apollo’s MCP Server to enable assistants like Claude or ChatGPT to safely interact with your internal systems. Learn how to expose secure, task-specific tools that let your assistant operate independently while you stay in control. We’ll also preview our new authentication capabilities and walk through what it takes to move from demo to production.

What you'll do

• Set up Apollo MCP Server to connect AI assistants to your backend services

• Build GraphQL-based tools using persisted queries in Apollo GraphOS

• Test AI assistants executing real actions through connected tools

• Add authentication to enforce access controls

• Explore production-ready patterns for deploying MCP in real environments

Who this workshop is for:

Developers and teams looking to integrate AI agents into real workflows—securely and scalably.

Pre-requisites
Basic experience with APIs.
(Recommended) Some familiarity with GraphQL SDL.

100-level workshop