# MCP: workflows

> Prompts to try with the Maru MCP server: review a project, answer from the guides, learn from community modules, check a plug-in build and start a new project.

Canonical: https://maruaudio.com/docs/mcp-workflows
Documentation index: https://maruaudio.com/llms.txt

Once your agent is [connected](https://maruaudio.com/docs/mcp-connect.md), ask in your own words; the
agent picks the tools. These prompts are good starting points. Every project
and build the agent reports carries a link: open it to check, because the page
is the source of truth, not the summary.

## Catch up on your work

```text
What am I working on in Maru? List my projects by most recent change and
give me the Studio link for each.
```

## Understand a project

```text
Explain how my Night Tape project works, from its source: the signal path,
the parameters, and where the feedback amount is set. Show the lines.
```

## Review before you change

```text
Search my synth project for every place the filter cutoff is read or set.
Then tell me what I would need to change to add a keytracking amount.
```

## Answer from the guides

```text
How do I add a parameter with a preset-safe default to a module? Read the
Maru guide first and quote the part you rely on.
```

## Learn from the community

```text
Find published granular instruments in the Maru community. Pick the most
remixed one with open source and show me how it schedules its grains.
```

## Choose building blocks

```text
Which Maru DSP nodes could I combine for a stereo chorus? List their
parameters and suggest a signal path.
```

## Check a plug-in build

```text
Did my latest plug-in build finish? Which formats can I install, and if a
build failed, what was the error? Give me the dashboard link.
```

## Start something new

```text
Show me the effect templates and suggest one for a tape delay. Then create a
Studio project from it called Night Tape 2.
```

## Hand off to your checkout

```text
Find my Night Tape project and read the module-authoring guide. Then, with
the local maru mcp server, make the repeats darker as they fade and run
maru module check.
```

The last prompt uses both servers: the remote one for the project and the
guide, and the local `maru mcp` server for the edit and the check. In a coding
agent, `npx maruaudio mcp install --both` adds both, and
`npx maruaudio skill install` adds the agent skill, which tells the agent how
to check, build and verify with the CLI. See
[Use Maru from your agent](https://maruaudio.com/docs/agent-setup.md).