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Plexara

What is an MCP?

How the Model Context Protocol becomes your agent's window into governed data, and what Plexara adds on top of the open standard.

15 min
Architecture

201 - Anatomy of a Plexara MCP

201 shows what is actually in the box on a Plexara server: the tool inventory by toolkit, the four content layers, the interactive apps a tool result can carry, and the memory, knowledge, and governance underneath. This lesson is the map.

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11 min
Product

202 - Your first day with Plexara

A new Plexara user gets connected, sends a first question, and platform_info takes over. Walks through day one and how subsequent turns inherit context.

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11 min
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203 - Discovery: one search, then fetch

One question reaches every system the agent can see. Results come back grouped by source with a coverage summary, and fetch reads any of them in full.

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11 min
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204 - Trino Query: analytics and insights

Plexara reaches customer data through Trino. What Trino is, how it maps to DataHub metadata, why OLAP queries finish fast, and how to export large results.

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10 min
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205 - Assets: dashboards, reports, and data

Plexara's asset system persists dashboards, reports, and exports outside chat. Naming asset tools in a prompt saves tokens and keeps outputs shareable.

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14 min
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206 - Knowledge: from a memory to something the whole team can use

Memory to Insight to Knowledge: the three stages a fact travels, the capability check that promotes it, and the two canonical places it lands.

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11 min
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207 - Governance: personas, access, and audit

Governance in Plexara is enforced when a tool is invoked, not described in a policy. Personas, default-deny, layered safeguards, and a single audit log.

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16 min
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208 - The prompt library: versioned, shared, and measurable

Two buckets, collections and facets, version history with approval provenance, attached materials, and running a prompt by whatever handle you know it by.

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209 - Resources: the company files the agent should use, not reinvent

Your templates, brand files, and reference documents, uploaded once and used as-is: which layer a file belongs on, search then fetch, revisions that keep every citation resolving, and making a template mandatory.

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16 min
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210 - Putting it all together: a worked end-to-end example

A capstone that walks a single real-world question through every Plexara subsystem covered in the 200 series, with a tool-by-tool reference at the end.

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13 min
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211 - Governing the catalog without leaving the portal

Tags, domains, the business glossary, context documents, and per-table metadata are edited in the portal, under the same persona grants that govern the agent and in the same audit log.

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12 min
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212 - Seeing the shape of what your team knows

The portal draws your knowledge corpus as its reference network and measures it: node size is how much of the corpus an entity holds together, and a citation the catalog cannot confirm is stated rather than drawn as if it resolved.

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