# Quickstarts

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

- [Agent Quickstarts](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents) — 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](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/mcp) — 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](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/apps) — 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.