The whole engine. No editor required.

Grab the binary for your platform from the AppMap releases page, rename it to appmap (appmap.exe on Windows), and put it on your PATH.

Run appmap install in your project root. It configures the AppMap trace agent for Java, Python, Ruby, or Node and writes appmap.yml.

Run your tests, or exercise your app, with the agent enabled. Traces land in tmp/appmap.

Run appmap index once, or appmap index --watch to keep the index fresh while you work. The editor extensions do this automatically.

Point any MCP client at the AppMap MCP server.

{"mcpServers": {"appmap": {"command": "appmap", "args": ["query", "mcp"]}}}