Workspace Tour
The dashboard has six groups in the left-hand nav. This is what each one is for, and which you'll actually use on day one.
Overview
Dashboard
Your landing page — connection health, tool call volume, and recent activity at a glance. Useful once things are running; mostly empty on day one.
Integrations
Connections
Where you create and manage connections. Each row is one API you're exposing, with its status and identity model.
This is where you'll spend your first session. Creating a connection opens the five-step wizard.
API Specs
Upload the OpenAPI spec describing your API. LockMCP parses it and generates a draft tool per operation.
Specs belong to a connection, so upload them after creating one. See Writing OpenAPI Specs.
Tools
Tool Catalog
Every tool in your workspace, and where you publish them. Draft tools are never served to AI clients — publishing is the switch that makes a tool real.
This is also where you control which roles may call each tool. See Tool Catalog.
Tool Studio
Where you author and refine individual tools — names, descriptions, parameter schemas.
Worth more attention than it first appears: a tool's name and description are what the AI reads to decide whether to use it, so they materially affect whether it behaves well. See Tool Studio.
Access
Connect
The setup instructions for pointing an AI client at your connection — the MCP endpoint URL plus per-client steps for Claude Desktop, Cursor / Windsurf, Claude (web) and ChatGPT.
This is the page you'll send to end users. See Connecting AI Clients.
Token Exchange connections don't support interactive browser clients. Use this page's MCP URL with Programmatic Integration instead.
Members & Access
Three tabs — Members, Roles and Permissions — covering who can use your connections and what they're allowed to do.
Sessions
Active user sessions across your connections, with the ability to end one. Useful when someone leaves, or when you need to force a re-authentication. See Monitoring & Audit.
Monitoring
Audit Log
A record of what happened in your workspace: tool calls, configuration changes, member changes, sign-ins. Each entry is attributed to a user.
Metrics
Tool call volume, latency and error rates over time. Where you'd notice a tool failing or an upstream API slowing down.
Security
Your workspace's cryptographic state — signing keys and their expiry, the data encryption key and when it was last rotated, and which connections hold encrypted credentials. See Security.
Workspace
Settings
Workspace name, plan and billing, and configuration that applies across connections. See Workspace Settings.
What to use on day one
Most of the nav is for running an established workspace. Getting your first connection live touches only four pages:
| Order | Page | Why |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connections | Create the connection and run the wizard |
| 2 | API Specs | Upload your OpenAPI spec so tools are generated |
| 3 | Tool Catalog | Publish the tools you want served |
| 4 | Connect | Get the endpoint URL and connect an AI client |
Members & Access matters as soon as you're adding other people — but if you're testing alone as the workspace admin, you already have access to everything.
Where to go next
- Create a Connection — the five-step wizard
- Core Concepts — how connections, tools and roles relate