# BytesMap > Build dashboards, investigate records and automate work across your data sources. Documentation describes implemented behavior, including source safety and permission boundaries. Live MCP tools/list and CLI --schema describe the installed runtime. ## Guides - [Build with your data.](https://bytesmap.com/docs.md): Connect a source. Build a view. Turn the result into your next action. - [Your first dashboard](https://bytesmap.com/docs/quickstart.md): Go from a connected database to a published dashboard with a working drilldown. - [How BytesMap fits together](https://bytesmap.com/docs/concepts.md): Sources, queries, views, dashboards and workflows—each with a clear job. - [Connect a data source](https://bytesmap.com/docs/sources/connect.md): Choose a direct connection, SSH server or supported local file. - [Capture and explore events](https://bytesmap.com/docs/sources/events.md): Define a dataset, connect your application and investigate typed event data. - [Protect production sources](https://bytesmap.com/docs/sources/safety.md): Read boundaries, limits, cancellation, replica routing and credential storage. - [Understand query cost](https://bytesmap.com/docs/sources/query-cost.md): Separate estimated work, measured database execution and connection timing. - [Build a reusable view](https://bytesmap.com/docs/build/views.md): Connect data, map components and keep a useful section together. - [Compose a dashboard](https://bytesmap.com/docs/build/dashboards.md): Arrange views, share filters and publish a stable reader experience. - [Copy between projects](https://bytesmap.com/docs/build/copy-between-projects.md): Review destination connections and compatibility, then create a new dashboard draft. - [Filters and drilldowns](https://bytesmap.com/docs/build/interactions.md): Follow a chart selection into a list, a record and a nested destination. - [Components and forms](https://bytesmap.com/docs/build/components.md): Display records, collect typed inputs and connect explicit actions. - [View composition](https://bytesmap.com/docs/build/composition.md): Follow shared datasets, nested views, publication and runtime bindings. - [Workflow automation](https://bytesmap.com/docs/automate/workflows.md): Build, review and run effects with conditions, inputs and revision control. - [Scheduled reports](https://bytesmap.com/docs/automate/reports.md): Send dashboard summaries on a schedule, with explicit delivery controls. - [Projects and organization](https://bytesmap.com/docs/workspace/projects.md): Organize shared work without confusing navigation with authorization. - [Identity and access](https://bytesmap.com/docs/workspace/access.md): Understand accounts, roles, grants, API keys and deployment modes. - [Manage workspace settings](https://bytesmap.com/docs/workspace/settings.md): Configure members, connected tools, notification delivery and account security. - [Slack and Microsoft Teams](https://bytesmap.com/docs/automate/chat.md): Connect accounts, run approved workflows from chat, and deliver results to your team. - [Connect an agent with MCP](https://bytesmap.com/docs/agents/mcp.md): Use the shared product operations through authenticated, scoped tools. - [Agent workflow guide](https://bytesmap.com/docs/agents/guide.md): Discover, inspect, build and validate with clear execution boundaries. - [CLI and SDK](https://bytesmap.com/docs/develop/cli-sdk.md): Use BytesMap over HTTP or through a native local host. - [Embed and reuse views](https://bytesmap.com/docs/develop/embedding.md): Compose saved views while preserving input mappings, publication and access boundaries. - [Self-host BytesMap](https://bytesmap.com/docs/deploy/self-hosting.md): Deploy the SaaS services and prepare persistent storage, credentials and backups. - [Test before production](https://bytesmap.com/docs/deploy/environments.md): Validate against test sources, review a draft copy and prepare production access. - [Troubleshooting](https://bytesmap.com/docs/troubleshooting.md): Resolve connection, input, permission, publication and rendering problems. - [Operation reference](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference.md): Generated from the same contracts as MCP, the CLI, SDK and HTTP API. - [actions operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/actions.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for actions. - [audit operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/audit.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for audit. - [billing operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/billing.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for billing. - [charts operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/charts.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for charts. - [dashboards operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/dashboards.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for dashboards. - [eventDestinations operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/eventDestinations.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for eventDestinations. - [events operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/events.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for events. - [flows operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/flows.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for flows. - [permissions operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/permissions.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for permissions. - [projects operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/projects.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for projects. - [queries operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/queries.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for queries. - [reports operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/reports.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for reports. - [schedules operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/schedules.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for schedules. - [servers operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/servers.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for servers. - [sources operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/sources.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for sources. - [views operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/views.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for views. - [workspaces operations](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/workspaces.md): MCP tools and operation permissions for workspaces. ## Machine-readable references - [Full guide text](https://bytesmap.com/llms-full.txt) - [Tool input schemas](https://bytesmap.com/docs/reference/operations.json)