Quickstarts

Get started with Catalyst by following these step-by-step quickstarts. Each quickstart takes around 15 minutes.

With your AI coding agent

Your agent runs the quickstart for you through the Catalyst AI plugin. Set it up first.

Workflow Quickstart (AI Plugin)

Your agent runs a durable workflow in your language, crashes it, and shows you it resume.

Agent Quickstart (AI Plugin)

Your agent runs a durable AI agent in your framework, crashes it, and shows you it resume.

With the Diagrid CLI

Agent Quickstarts

Learn how to build AI-powered durable agents using Dapr Agents. Create intelligent, stateful agents that maintain conversation memory and execution state across restarts.

MCP Quickstart

Put an MCP server behind Catalyst and secure it from both sides. Authenticate Catalyst to your server, then grant per-tool, per-caller access with a deny-by-default policy you change at runtime.

App Quickstarts

Learn how to build durable, distributed applications with Catalyst — stateful workflows using the Dapr Workflow API, or Dapr's building-block APIs for service invocation, state, and pub/sub.